simon_hickie1

Great textures, patterns and details here, although I feel the HDR is a little over-cooked. You have a slight tilt and some converging verticals though - an easy fix.

Comments welcome, particularly whether members feel the drumstick in

front of the face is a distraction. Many thanks.

Nice idea, although you are not helped by a bland sky and perhaps too much foreground. A heavy letter-box crop like this might work though.

Nice recession here. I agree the tilt looks a little odd, although that may just be the landscape. I touch more on the base might be useful too.

Greetings from South Derbyshire and also Machynlleth! You have a nice straight horizon and a nice lead-in from the bottom right which then goes to the figures on the beach. Some cropping might work well here, together with a bit more contrast. See altered image above.

Some interesting foreground patterns here. Main weaknesses are a sloping horizon and an uninteresting sky. Zooming into some of those mid-ground details might be interesting.

Nicely exposed. I'd like to see some interaction between the B&G. Groom's left arm needs to be doing something too. The large black space top left is a key compositional weakness though. I like the setting, if a bit risky for wedding wear!

Well seen and exposed. I think I'd clone out the top right and crop or clone out the white patch on the left - just a little too distracting for me.

Great lowish-key shot, but still good shadow detail. Just a pity about the cropped right boot. A capture I'd be pleased to get!

Well seen, & exposed. Some highlights burnt out in the sky - should be fixable. Slight left-right slope. Pity the girl's left arm is out of shot. Otherwise an evocative street shot.

Great sky and OK lighting. Slight left-right slope (horizon line). Foreground a little untidy - could crop or clone out.

I agree with the other comments but would add that if you cropped off the sky at the top, the 'abstractness' would be enhanced still further.

Hi Olivia & welcome to the site! Your image is well exposed and framed. Technically you have some darkening in the corners (vignetting) which is easy to fix. I think the image might benefit from a little cropping - about half of the water at the bottom and about half of the sky above the tall tower. The image also looks a little soft but that may be a result of the resolution.

Overall though, there is a lot to interest the viewer here. Keep posting!

Also nice lighting on the domes which reveals their form quite nicely. Cropping off the dark arches at the bottom might also help focus attention on the rest of the building.

I like the greater level of detail from these shots - few distracting elements too. Being picky, I would fix the clockwise slope though - but you risk losing the very top 'spikes'.  

You have employed some interesting depth of field effects (in post processing I assume), but I'm not entirely convinced they work as well as true shallow depth of field from a large aperture. The scene is an interesting one and I'd like to see more of it clearly!

I like the unusual angle and some of the interesting patterns. Exposure looks about right, although there's some loss of shadow detail. Have you gone for the D3100 yet?!

A most intriguing scene. My only real reservation is the rather featureless sky and slightly flat lighting.

Nicely caught scene - it could almost be in Europe! And a pleasing absence of cars too. Great colour and exposure. Perhaps a crop on the right to remove the far pale building with the green door might tighten up the composition.

Well seen 'big colour' image. For me the most interesting part is the leftmost 70% and a crop might be worth experimnting with.

Hi Maria. This is one of quite an interesting series on this particular building. The main interest for me lies in the windows and decorative features on the first floor and above. A straight on shot with some perspective distortion correction would be another approach you could take.

Good tonal range in a fine high key image. A blue sky with a red filter simulation and B&W conversion would be another possible approach - if the sky was blue! A fine effort.

Symmetry, lighting and exposure are all good here. A pity about the drainpipes though. A more selective view of the doorway and the surrounding stonework would be interesting.

Composition here is generally good, although I'd like a touch more on the base. The colour is great! It looks a fraction underexposed in the shadows, but should be easy to put in a bit more shadow detail in post processing - and you don't want to blow the highlights either. Overall, a very nice capture.