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Thanks Elina. The different layers of colour (and texture) were what I liked about the scene also.

Harry, these are absolutely brilliant captures - great timing and beautiful exposures. My only gripe is that they appear a touch over-sharpened.

 

Regards, Andrew.

Interesting, your values don't look too uncommon (although threshold is on the high side). Can you see what I am talking about though - along the top of the mountain (particularly on the right diagonal slope) there is pixelation (although this may purely be JPEG-related noise) and there appears to be an extreme edge with a slight halo along the divide b/n the foreground grass and bottom of the mountain. These also seem to show up to a degree in your un-sharpened version, so I have no explanation. Perhaps it's just an optical effect of the scene.

 

Did you bump up the saturation and/or contrast at all?

 

Anyway, thanks for tolerating my scrutiny of your image - I'm learning by thinking about this as well :-)

Fair enough. There is something about this though... perhaps I am merely seeing edge/noise effects from too much sharpening? In which case, had you considered reducing the amount of sharpening? Or, assuming you're using USM in Photoshop, increasing Threshold or reducing Radius?

 

Regards, Andrew.

Very clever composition - I see two sets of lines here.

Champagne-cork art. Very creative - I like it ;-)

What a fantastic mess of activity. Great tone and colour also.

Great texture in the grasses - I like the contrast between the warm hues of the sunlit grass and the cooler background.

Very nicely composed - especially with regard to the lines in the ice leading you in to the plant. Well done.

Is this a composite? There seems to be a very distinct line between the foreground land and the mountain. Or is that a line created by PS enhancements only applied to one half of the frame? Either way, feathering when you make selections in PS can reduce this sort of effect. I like the effect of this nice, whimsical landscape though.

Brilliant lighting, and very original shot.

Beautiful composition, and well worked. Beautiful hues.

Very clever effect.

Very clever idea.

Thanks David. I was shooting somewhere around 200mm or so to try and flatten things out a bit (and concentrate on pattern). I think the right side works better because of the denser, brighter leaves and the more vertical nature of the trees.

Thanks David. I was worried that perhaps I'd pushed the dark aspect of this too much and over-sharpened the leaves (which is why I'd assumed people may have been turned-off commenting here) - I've just been fascinated by bright leaves over a dark background foliage of late, and this dark gully seemed like fair game ;-)

I really like the pattern on the glass(?) and your intriguing placement of the 13.

Nice, peaceful scene. Had you considered a closer crop to concentrate more on specific aspects (like the reflections, for argument's sake - you've certainly exposed well for that part of the image). It just seems like there's a lot to take in here at the cost of finding a specific point of interest.

Great moment captured here - good social commentary. I like your cropping here - it really keeps you with the subjects and compliments the nature of the wall.

Ugh... I always shudder when I see these toxic little buggers ;-)

 

Well done picking the opportunity, good composition and I really like the colour/tone in this. I appreciate the difficulty factor, but it seems a touch out of focus... I imagine it would have been hard for your camera to not get tricked when focusing through the water?

Nice job otherwise.

Ah... so this is where my summer monarchs have fled to! I always look forward to when these guys finally make the trip back up north.

 

Great colour - and I like the way you've really 'brough us in there' by filling most of the frame with the monarchs - perhaps a more abstract approach would have been to crop even closer (just thinking aloud here). My only gripe is that the focus doesn't seem to be quite perfect. Otherwise nice job.

Both Julius' and Blaine's points are interesting food for thought... perhaps pushing the effect to one extreme or the other would have produced striking results.

Otherwise, nice photo of a goat - well done waiting for the right moment.

Beautiful colours in the sky... perhaps a touch bright at top left - ever considered playing around with some PS dodging? Good, sharp silhouette.

Great documentary-style photo. The people are a little underexposed, but I appreciate what a fine line it would have been achieving correct exposure for the people without completely washing out the background.

I must say, there's something very striking about those two window panes - like worn-out, disgruntled eyes peering out at the world.

 

There does feel like there's a bit of a lean to this though... had you considered rotating it slightly CCW so that the vertical lines are straight, leaving only the horizontal lines on a slight slant rather than the other way around? Or would this not suit the look you were aiming for?