miles_hecker

I feel this is the best image in your November folio.

The warm colors in the forground grab the eye and lead it to the shaft of light coming from the left. The blues in the sky provide color harmnony and balance the palette of the image. IMO burning the horizon area a bit would better balance the tones and make the image better overall.

Well done!

I feel this is the best landscape image in your Hawaii portfolio. The forground anchors the eye and leads it to the shore. The sweep of the shore and the light on the cliff continues the visual flow towards the lovely sky. Well done!

In this photo I feel the tight crop, works well to make the composition work. The overall lighting and balance of positive and negative space is very good.

A lovely composition with warm believable color harmonies and tone.

This is a fine composition. The colors are raised way beyond the relm of Velvia and indeed resemble a Walt Disney cartoon. They detract from the wonderful composition. Is every one on PN now so color blind we think this is 'normal'? Included is the same scene rendered in a platinum type B&W tone. I for one think it is lovely. Perhaps others do as well.

A good but not exceptional photo. The color and tone are nicely pastel but the composition is somewhat lacking. To me the forground and the tree on the right border are chopped off too suddenly and the pyramid on the left is distracting.

A very good minimalist abstract composition. IMO though I think it would have a bit stringer still if the top point of the trestle had rested on the top of the frame or had been a little bit inside it.

While the light is marvelous as usual for Emil's work, IMO the crop on the head is too tight and hurts the image.

I love the color and texture of this shot. The flowers reproductive organs have almost been reduced to an abstract image. If it were my image I might recrop it to tighten the composition a bit.

An absolutely lovely big sky shot. Excellent color harmony and soft tonalities with a strong composition. It has a glorious soft light bathing it.

Thought not as flashy as some of the super warm shots in your portfolio, I feel this is my favorite.

Composition is superb, tonality and flow of light is wonderful. Well done.

One of the finest landscapes on PN.

Superb tonality, color harmony and composition.

The texture in the forground is eye rivoting. If you weren't a purist I might suggest cropping 15% off the left side to achieve a more perfect balance in the composition. Well done at any rate!

Superb composition, wonderful light and color harmony. The only tiny improvement I might suggest is to burn the edge of left side where the light rays enter the frame. The hot spot there detracts a little from the framing of the mill. Well done!

While I like the composition here and the idea, the forground could use a little more texture. It is a minimalist landscape in the extreme.

I think this is a very good and hard to execute shot. I feel it would even better with the small amount of dead space cropped off the left side.

A superb composition on the fly! :-)

I think it could be even better if you burned the nearest gull and lightened the far ones a bit to even up the tonalities.

Even though the filtering is heavy, I think it works works well to augment the composition and mood here.

Re: Doug's comment. While this image as seen here could certainly use a smidgen of dodging and burning to fine tune it, I stand by my claim that this is an exceptional shot of this location. I've seen over 30 images taken here. Two of which were taken by icons of american landscape photography who shall remain nameless. This has the best overall lighting and composition of them all. A properly tweeked 24x30 print should be exceptional. If anyone can link us to a better one anywhere, I for one would love to see it.

I like the color version of this shot way better than the B&W. Very fine indeed. I agree with Marc that color improves the perspective and the seperation of detail. But I do like the overall lighting and composition of Noman's shot even more.

 

This is certainly a fine shot and one to be proud of though! :-)

This is a good B&W shot of a well known area in the San Juans called Dallas Divide. To see IMO an even better color panorama with great light, have a peak at

 

http://normankoren.com/Image2001/San_Juan_Sneffles_1001.html

Wonderful composition with marvelous color harmony.

I like this shot more than any other in this folder.

I agree with Marc's comment on the composition regarding a slight crop to the left side of the image. With this crop the eye would be more closely focused and I'd give it a very good rather than a good for aesthetics. The color harmonies here are wonderful. I think a black border would make it easier to see the tonalities against this dreaded white PN background.

This is a nice composition. It does appear a little oversharpened though. The F707 tends to oversharpen images if the sharpness setting is left to the deafult setting of 0. Setting it to -1 minimizes this problem.

I think Seven's macro work is exceptionally good. But IMO this is little more than an average landscape shot of two gulls hovering over a dune. The lighting, tone and composition just appear average to me.

I feel this is a good landscape shot, which with a little work could be a very good one.

 

The most obvious thing to improve is the cyan cast which exists, especially in the shade. The Photoshop color rebalance command could be used to fix that. The D60 auto white balance can and will be fooled by shots with both shade and open light areas. The second is the recrop Marc suggest. This would improve the flow and overall composition.