miles_hecker

A good solid photo, but not exceptional.

A warming polarizer would have helped pop both the colors and the reflection. Also Velvia is a tough film to shoot in 35mm. The grain shows up on scans in the sky. While Velvia is good for producing impressive slides on the light table, Provia 100F scans much better. You can adjust the saturation and contrast after the scan to taste if you like.

This is a good 'big sky' shot.

I would eliminate the bottom 2/3 of the reflection to improve the composition.

Superb color, tone, timing and composition.

Your best landscape yet.

You got your 4x5 birthday gift. :-)

This is a nice shot. I do find the cropping too tight on the lower left. A repositioning of the camera or a recompostion would give the falls a better position and improve the overall balance of the photo.

I agree with Marc here. This is the best of your Antelope canyon series. Good compostion and tonality. It could use a tad more sharpening to bring out the detail.

I agree with Thomas here. Sometimes we push a decent image trying to make it something special. I feel this was probably the case here. Been there, done that.

Easily the best shot in this folder.

Excellent composition and tone.

Well done!!

Although this is somewhat of a cliche shot,

it's well done. Good composition, color and tonal values. I don't understand the many average ratings. This is certainly way better than the average snapshot I see on Photo.Net.

An excellent shot Jean. Great compostion and visual tension. Also excellent monochromatic color harmony.

Good composition and tonality. The color harmony is the slight flaw in this image. Blue-Yellow or Blue-Orange is more typical. I might suggest warming the green yellow tones of the lichen. The lichen I find here in Wyoming is often yellow or yellow orange in color. But if you like it where it is, leave it alone.

The color and light here are lovely and this is certainly a good image. But the composition is a little weak. IMO the eye wanders a bit on the left side of the image and the base of the evergreen on the upper right is a slight distraction. A slight recrop could be made to take advantage of a strong diagonal line and unify the image. See what you think.

A lovely composition and great color harmony.

I would agree with Doug's comment about a slight crop on the left side. Also the polarizer is a bit overdone on the sky here. The sky could be evened out in Photoshop by building a soft mask and adjusting the levels across it using the mask.

I do think the addition of clouds would spoil the strong color harmony here.

Lovely tones and color. Almost perfect composition.

I might suggest cropping off about 8-10% of the image on the left side to make the composition even stronger.

This photo looks IMO very much out of level.

It look off about 5 degrees CW. Tripods with levels are very helpful for landscape photographers.

The light in this version of this classic shot is somewhat mediocre and flat. Sometimes we have to wait for the great light a long while. Sometimes we run out of vacation before it arrives. :-(

A very nice composition. The only improvement I might suggest is cropping about 5% off the left side. This would set the moon off center more and remove the tiny bit of dead space I see there.

This image has lovely monochromatic color harmony, wonderful tonal balance and good composition.

The only tiny flaw IMO is the lack of breathing room for the bottom reflection of the mast. A tiny bit more would have been better.

Excellent color and texture in the bottom 80% of this shot. The top 20% is not as strong, the eye kind of wanders about here.

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A nice composition here. I think it would even nicer if the background was a tad darker. This could easily be accomplished by moving the black point up higher.

I would tend to agree with Marcs critique.

The color and tone are great, but the strength of the image lies in the forground. We need more of it to pull us in and make the image flow.

In it's current form it is truncated and my visual path slams into it hard and stops. Perhaps there was something that kept you from including more of it to complete the flow of the image. Only you know what was up here.

IMO this image has some excellent light, color and tone but suffers from mediocre cropping. The land mass on the upper left part of the image detracts from the overall composition and hurts the color harmonies.

A recrop as suggested would to me make it a very good rather than merely a good image.

This is a classic location, but the light in this shot is very average.

The color and tone in the top 1/3 of this shot is not as strong as the bottom 2/3. The overall result is a good but not great Antelope canyon photo.

The compositional idea here is good, but the implementation leaves something to be desired. IMO the trees at the lower left and the blue sky at the upper right are too tightly cropped. This makes the photo feel cramped.