miles_hecker

Nice tonalities, with interesting color and light.

Welcome back to PN.

This has a wonderful monochromatic color harmony as well as good composition.

I agree with Marc sepia or even platinum toning is more appropriate for a western theme. I should know I live in Wyoming and I've never seen a single blue toned old cowboy photo. Yahoo!

Nice composition with very good use of contrast between B&W and red to achieve both color harmony and a point of focus.

Excellent light! The sepia nature of this shot makes me wonder if some kind of filter was used. This is just fine of course in my book.

The composition and timing here are very good. However, the shot as noted above is overexposed and it has a blue cast resulting from the shade. It is relatively easy to color rebalance and do a small curves adjustment in Photoshop to correct these small problems.

I really don't intend to be rude here, but this is just a cookie cutter picture of 'The Wave' shot with average light and okay composition. I do believe it's fine to shoot cliches. We can learn a lot in the process. If you do so however, the light and or composition needs to be special to be considered a very good or excellent photo.

A little oversaturated for my taste, but wonderful composition and color harmony never the less.

I enjoy the composition, light and mood of this shot a great deal. The bench is quitely waiting for a passer by to sit on it. Well done Jean.

Good composition, wonderful light and a good use of the ND filter to focus the tonalities in the center of the image. Well done!

One of the best badlands shots I've seen.

Good composition, great light and tone.

A lovely composition, but IMO the scan could be better. Try using a film scanner rather than scanning from the print.

The color and tonalities here are fine, but IMO the compostion is weak. The trees and the irrigation canal are cropped so tightly and viewed at such a low angle that they do not create a strong view point towards the horizon. Jaap has many fine shots in his folio. This one I feel is not up to those standards.

A superb portrait. Powerful lighting, composition and mood. Well done!.

I feel this is a visually unique and strong image. That said, I feel the composition would be even stronger with about 10% cropped off the top and right side of the image.

A wonderful use of a tight crop to force the point of view and make the forms join into one wonderfully strong & coherent image.

Excellent lighting control and timing. The butterfly and eyes stand out in complementary color harmony with the flesh tones. Well done!

Hey I must have missed this one! Definitely your best landscape to date. Great light and good composition. Well done Buck! :-)

IMO this is the strongest photo in your portfolio.

Superb composition combined with excellemt blue-yellow color harmonies make this a knock out.

IMO the clouds and reflection are too symmetrical.

My eye goes immediately to the center of the photo and stays there. An excellent composition has a visual flow from area to area. The eye should start at one point in the photo and be lead by both the tonalities and forms to a climactic final resting point. Along the way, the detail and color harmonies should enhance the overall feeling and message of the image. Your best landscapes have these qualities. This one does not. I hope this helps.

A lovely composition with a solid and uncommon forground anchor. The good color harmonies and tone make for a very good landscape overall. Well done!

The composition is strong here but the color and tonalities IMO are merely average. The color is almost absent and the skies seems rather unexceptional. Some duotoning or pastel color filtering might make this is a more captivating image.

This is a superb composition Fred. The visual flow towards the focal point is strengthened both by the repetition of pattern in the positive and negative spaces of the image and the placement. The color harmonies and tone blend to enhance the compositional side as well. VERY well done!

Good composition and tone. Hiding her eyes makes her seem aloof and mysterious. Well done!

The great depth of field of the digital camera lens is put to good use here. Great compostion and light. Well done!