glenncadman

I wanted to create some negative space with this autumn leaf/branch image but I

cannot seem to get the balance right. Or am I just trying to put lipstick on a pig?

Fantastic imagine , beauty of nature captured at it finest. I thought however at least on my monitor that the imagine was a little dark in the foreground, thus the foreground lacked interest.  The clouds, rather than the reflection are the heros of this picture, I made some adjustments here 

Beautiful fish, but not the coral kind ;) -  Cichlidae, freshwater. 

The orange at the front has a real cheeky look, she  is hoping for a nice earthworm;  would have cropped it a bit more, as there is a lot going on. 

Its a great imagine anyway you look at it, its great in color and great in B/W, a worthy winner of any contest. However I agree in B/W it's just a bit more special, a bit more abstract, flowing artistry.  

This was a panorama I loaded for a question I put into the forums, as I needed some help with the vignetting in light room. http://photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00dMHY

Phenomenal image, just outstanding, all from a bit of fence in a sand ridge!. Don't think a computer monitor does it justice, it would look amazing as a fine art print, certainly something I would buy just to hang on my wall.

This is a not just a photo of a few buildings, but very artistic geometric interplay of shapes and design. My only issue with it is that at least on my monitor the eaves look a bit dark and you cannot see the nice diagonals of the timber. For better or worse I tried with lightshop to brighten it up.

Beautiful work.

I really love the atmosphere of this shot, complex yet not confusing, whats going on here? Hinting Hitchcock's "The Birds". I really like the dimples in the center post, its just a pity they disappeared in the image.  I reconstructed the image in lightroom to be a touch more dramatic and highlighting the dimples, I would agree that it may be a step too far, but I just wanted to see how it could look.

Well after some reflection, on a laptop screen the planes vapor trail just looks odd ( a scratch of white pixels), but no doubt on a reasonably larger 8x10 print the vapor trail adds a nice touch, something zooming through a timeless landscape...my apologies. 

Lovely image of blobs of lavender contained in diagonals, what looks like a dirt road horizontally with of course the wind farm in the background.  As for improvement, hmmm its very good already so debatably I think a little more brightness in the foreground would be nice, and extracting a little more color from the sky, though that does change the mood of the photo.  

My apologies, when I looked at it again with my laptops retina display, the background light was perfect, it was my monitor displaying too brightly. However what does stick out is the jet vapor trail left of the upper center, IMHO it disturbs the overall uniformity of the image. 

Fabulous shot, the the branch just floats in a sea of diffuse light, breaking the rule of thirds just adds to the effect. My only point is the question would it be better if the background light was toned down just a bit?

certainly not worthy of a frame;  but it did become my background picture on my laptop.

Fabulous imagine, really captivating, who is he waiting for, why is he the center of attention. I love the light around the boy, he is framed by the white chair the aura of light around him of course the two guys looking at him whilst we are awaiting the guy who sits in the "alpha" chair to arrive. To pick fault which there is not much to pick,  I would have to say that I find the window light too bright distracts for the light enveloping the boy. ie my eye goes to the area of the highest contrast first, which is the window light vs the mans at the windows face, rather than the boy who is the center of attention and star of the photo Also the doctors empty chair could be a bit brighter as we are all waiting for him to arrive.

what a wonderful composition. if I may ask , how do you create this lovely effect, is it an addon for photoshop?

What a fantastic macro shot, beautiful harmonious composition. Though I think the bright spot on the moss in the lower middle of the shot could be removed as it is a bit of a distraction, a bit more depth of field would have been nice so the "trunk" was more visible  and the blob of green in the lower right in sharper focus (albeit I know very difficult technically to achieve). 

As beautiful as it is (and it is wonderful!), is it a work of imagined art or photography?

Beautiful loops of light captivate the eye; black on green with swirls of orange. Fabulous composition! Then the brain says, my god its fencing wire! and that's the fantastic reveal/twist to the photo that makes it great. 9/10.   

I was thinking if the photo is better or worse off if  photoshopped  out the white highlight wisps of spider web just right of centre of frame, was it a distraction or did it bring the eye to the area of interest. In the end I think the photo is better for it. 

Yes , the compute based blending of grass that is moving is probably the cause of what I am seeing going on the foreground wheat "haze" . Great photo 

Great eye catching stuff. Lovely green cascading horizontals, reminds me of a set of surf waves arriving.

Wondering if the image would have been improved with the wheat in the foreground being in sharp focus?

Just love this shot, with the tiger having a good look at me (dinner time?) whilst I look at the tiger (time to run?), what's that tiger got in mind?. The one and only issue, and that is being very picky,  it's just a little bit flat in a 2D sense, but really it is a super photo.

Just lovely , beautiful light, aesthetically soft (not focus soft) , eyes just shine through. Denisa doesn't look like she is posing , just you have taken her attention just for a second.  To pick fault on a near faultless shot, whats behind her right hand it doesn't have to be there, crop it or photoshop it out?

I love photos with a circular point of interest your eye goes round the central point of interest very nicely. Is it just me, or is the beak and eye just a bit out of perfect focus? Perfect focus seems to be the feathers of the apex of the neck. For me background contains just a few too many high contrasting objects to be a bit of a distraction. I know it is being picky, the difference between a really good photo which it is and a photo that would hang proudly on your wall.