michelle_cox

Ok, let's try that again. Dang program crashed.

Let's see if this will allow me to attach a photo...

I second Barthelemy's comment. Soon as I saw it, I thought it looked like the moon. :)

 

The dark on the top keeps pulling my eyes for some reason. If I scroll down so it's "cropped", I like it better. Over all, it's a pretty cool photo. Not your typical GC shot.

It's hard to see clearly, even in the large size, but if you can get past that and the too-much jpeg compression, it looks like a pretty cool photo. I'd love to see this one in a larger size.

 

The only actual photo nit I have is I'd like to see the pumpkin turned just a little bit more towards us. The left eye is almost out of our view and that's bugging me. Otherwise, it's a very nice image.

I really like the falls and the colours across the top. But I find the bottom right jarring and it keeps pulling my eyes away. I'm not sure how it could be done differently, though. If you crop it out, it takes too much of the top away. If you had gone face on the waterfall (presuming it was physically possible), I think it would have mad the shot more boring because the angle really helps it. All in all, I think it's a nice photo with a bad spot that just can't be helped.

I like that you included a leaf with the flower. This sort of picture has been done quite a bit, but it's usually _just_ the flower. I also like the side view since the "usual" pictures tend to be straight on.

 

 

You did a pretty good job eliminating the background, but there is a bright spot near the leaf that's distracting. Also, if you aren't able to eliminate the light on the table totally, try getting in closer so you have just the back and the table, not the front edge of the table as well.

 

The image over all looks a little soft, but I'm guessing that's the equipment you used.

 

Overall, it's a pretty flower, a good attempt at making it less cliche, and a good first try. Keep at it and keep posting. :)

 

 

Looks like one of those paintings of Hell...

 

Wow... I don't normally like to comment just to say I like it, but I don't see anything I would change. Wonderful just as it is.

Pretty butterfly. Around here we seem to get mostly monarchs and some yellow ones.

 

I like the way the grass(?) is positioned, with the one in fromt straight up and in focus and crossed behind with the out of focus one.

 

I do wish the butterfly was larger, though. It seems almost lost in the grass. I don't think cropping would help, though, because you'd lose what I like about the grass.

 

 

I like the idea and the colours, but it isn't quite there for me. Some of the flowers are too close to the camera and are bugging my eyes. Also, I agree with the one that said the colours need to be brighter, because this is very much about the colours.

 

What I'd like to see is back off a tad so the flowers aren't right in our face, pump up the colours, and make the background a bit blurrier since it doesn't contribute anything. Also, if you could get an angle that shows more of the hyrdant, that would be good. It seems to me like the "king" of the flowers, standing over them, and should be more prominent.

 

The ones you attached are wonderful! I like the pano version the best, but the other one is very nice, too. Both are _much_ better than the original. It's amazing how the right crop can turn a not bad but not great picture into a Wow! picture.

I like the mist. I've been trying to catch a good fog for a while, but it always comes out looking so dull. I'd crop the sky, more, though. Yeah, you'll get a middle horizon, but the interest is in the ground and all that sky isn't adding anything.

I like the blue version better. Not because I have any bias against digital editing. I just like the look of the deep blue sky better.

 

Pity about the digital cameras. Some day, the place won't be able to be photographed any more except by a handful of people still doing things the old fashioned way.

Too blurry, I'm afraid. It's hard to tell what it is because there's not enough detail. Also, the car's lights bring your eyes dowd to the street and away from the more interesting building. If you can try again, bring the camera up a bit so the street isn't so bright and leave the sutter open longer to get some detail from the buildings.

Despite the fact that this keeps popping up in the various photography books I read as the example of a cliched nature photo, I've always liked it. In this one, though, the fish is covering a lot of the bear's face and I think that detracts from the image. It's really important to be able to see an animal's eyes in an image and you don't have that here. Also, the bottom right is really washed out and distracts from the image.

 

I do like how the bear is dripping wet with slicked back hair. Makes me shiver to think how cold it must be in there.

 

Over all, not a bad shot, but if you get up there again, try to hold off until the bear is looking towards you before clicking the shutter.

 

 

Thanks for the comments. Unfortunately, my thread about sunset problems wasn't archived, so I can't point to it. The gist of it was that my camera simply can't handle the contrast range I'm throwing at it. I do have a GND, but it's pretty useles. I didn't realize they came in different varieties at the time and there's not enough stops. I hope to get a better one by next summer.

 

I wish there was more detail in the lake, but if I try to lighten it up, I lose all the lovely orange in the sunset. To be honest, it wasn't _quite_ that orange in real life (still very colourful, though). But my camera put the extra orange in all by itself and I liked the look. So, in a sense, I enhanced the photo by _not_ Photoshopping it. :P

 

We do have very nice sunsets here. Some are really orange, some more blue (see the photo next to this one in my folder). This particular one came after a huge storm blew through. The lighting was so eerie that I told my husband to take the tater tots out of the oven when they finished and left, right in the middle of making supper, to go take photos! I didn't regret it. It was an awesome sunset. My photos don't do it justice.

Jeffery - For future reference, you can attach a picture to a comment without loading it into your folder. After you confirm your comment, it goes to a page that lets you upload a file.

 

By the way, although I liked the original photo, I like yours better. That cropping does really help it.

This image got 6 ratings out of nowhere one day. I hadn't submitted

it for critique, so I don't know what happened. But I figured if 6

people liked it enough to rate without any request from me, it might

be good enough to send to the circle. So, here is my first circle

request. I've got my flak jacket on. Let me know what you think. :)

Is that a brussel sprout tree? :)

 

The first thing I'd do is crop the top a bit more. That white spot is a distraction. Also, if you could blend that light spot in the bottom right a bit more with the background.

 

It's an intersting composition... At first I was going to say that the stuff on the left takes away from the main subject, but looking at it more, it all goes together as very alien looking. I'm not sure if that made sense. I'm having trouble putting what I think of this one into words. Alien describes it best I guess. Looks like an alien world.

Sounds like you're asking about graduated neutral density filters. They restrict the light for part of the photo but not the rest.

This is one that I'd like to see the rule of thirds broken on. Well, depending on what was actually to the right, that is. I think it would be interesting seeing these white chairs framed on either side by the green grass. It seems to heavily weighted on the right, especially with the tilt.

 

I find the pillars in the back to be a distraction. They mess up the symmetry. And like some others, I feel like I'm going to tip over because of the angle.

 

It's an interesting idea, but it just doesn't quite do it for me.

 

 

I've gotten a late start on the circle so I keep ending up with "me toos". I'd like to see it cropped to get rid of the branches hanging down and the first few people. Faces might have been nice, but seen them walking away is interesting, too. Can't decide on that one. I never thought about which way the line runs, but now that it's been mentioned, that makes sense. Being used to reading left to right, it's jarring when something goes the other way. For my last "me too", I have to agree that there's just not a lot interesting here. You can't even see most of the people closest to the camera. The idea of a line of drummers is interesting in concept, but it just didn't transfer to the photo.

The sky is wonderful. I've always liked brilliant orange sunsets. The land looks so lonely. The sky seems alive and firey while the ground is dark and serene. I like the contrast.

I like the way the light is streaking. It gives it a sense of motion and makes it look like a flower launching into space rather than a brief burst of light that will fall to the ground.

This one is very pretty. Serene. All that blue has a nice calming effect. My only nit is the red spot the sun is making on the land. It stands out too much against the blue. I don't know whether there's anything that could have been done in camera to prevent it, though.

I love comments where I learn something from someone else's photo. I was thinking something was not quite right, but didn't know what. Now I know something to look out for.

 

As to the photo in between the trees, it's a wonderful shot. I was trying about a week ago to get a fisherman silouetted just right against the sunset that was going on. Never did get one I like and I'm to shy to go up to a stranger and ask him to pose. :)

 

Unfortunately, I think this image would lose to much if you cropped the trees, and if you straightened them, the fisherman would be tilted.