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I think that there is too much brown and black here. You need brighter colors, such as red, yellow, and green.

Nice Waterfall

I didn't know that they had rainbows in Israel. I thought it was just desert and bomb craters. The picture is good, although somewhat ordinary. The picture needs a tree or temple or lake or something.

What's confusing about this picture is that things look parallel that shouldn't be parallel. It looks like the 3rd base to home path is parallel to the 1st base to home path and both are parallel to the fence. Could somebody draw a diagram showing the view from above the field? I was also wondering how far back the photographer was? It looks like he was a long way back with great depth-of-field.

The bear is in water playing with a log. The log doesn't show up

here, maybe because it's under water. I cropped this picture to get

rid of extra people. Other than that, the photo has not been altered.

I like this picture and I'm surprised that nobody else has rated it. Maybe that's why my beach and palm trees picture was rated so low. Maybe it's just us two who like them. In the past, I thought that palm trees were ugly, but when I took a trip to Costa Rica, I suddenly liked them.

This is an excellent picture, except that the person is underexposed. Sky as background is tricky. On the one hand, the sky is attractive. On the other hand, Objects can end up looking like silhouettes. Landscape photographers can use neutral density filters to darken the sky. I don't know what the options are for birds, airplanes, and skateboarders.

Nice pictures. I prefer color. In your other photo, it would have been good to reduce the green a little bit in photoshop. Fill flash may have helped.

 

The feathers seem somewhat smooth as if it isn't focused perfectly. Usually, when a bird is focused perfectly, you get more feather details, but I don't know about toucans.

It's an excellent picture. It might be a little bit (10%) over-cropped. I would like to see all of the right arm and a tiny bit more room past the nose. I agree that with long bodied animals like caimans, full body shots don't work very well. You were correct not to show the whole animal.

I'll disagree with the previous comments. I think that it is better as is than putting it on a diagnal or using black and white. It's a good statue picture, although I'd be inclined to rate pictures of real people higher.

of pelicans

This might look better in a larger picture or in color. As it is, it lacks detail and the body blends too much with the background.

 

This is a bit off-topic, but I saw a bald eagle today at Greenlake Park in Seattle. It's the first time, I've seen an eagle that close -- about 10 yards away. If I had had my camera with me, I don't think I could have gotten it out of the bag in time for a good shot, because it was flying. The eagle was being followed by 4 crows. It looked like the eagle was the momma bird and the crows were the baby birds.

I took this picture when I was on vacation in Costa Rica. The monkey

is fairly high in the tree and it's using its prehensile tail to keep

from falling. This picture is cropped from a larger picture so it

isn't quite as clear as I'd like. If I had a rapid fire camera, I

could try to get a picture with its hand slightly moved to show its

face. It may be underexposed.

I know that birds will look into the sun, but I'm not sure about orangutans. Is there any way to tell which animals will look into the sun and which won't? If you don't want the eyes shaded, you might need an overcast day or animal could be in the shade.

I don't get the title. What do you consider to be ugly? The mud isn't that attractive.

Great Picture

I took a vacation in Costa Rica. I thought that my favorite picture

would be some exotic bird or monkey, but I found that I liked this

one best.

The red plant looks like a hand, which is interesting.

This would work for an advertisement where you wanted to get people's attention. It's too bright and garish to stare at for long. In my pictures, I also have a problem with red flowers getting oversaturated. I don't know the solution, except maybe stopping down one.

I think that it is underexposed. The cameras metering tends to push the average for the picture towards gray. The snow looks gray instead of white. I personally don't take black and white pictures and think that this would look better with color.

although the colors are not as bright as some pictures I've seen. I'll agree with all comments. Sunsets have been done before. Sometimes you have to choose between beauty and newness. I think that it is better to go for beauty. You have this innate sense of what is beautiful. You have to listen to that sense even if other photographers say that it's been done before.

I like it. I would like it better if the puppy's paw wasn't so close to the mother's eye. I seems uncomfortable to me.

I live in Seattle and a lot of your pictures look like duplicates of my pictures. I don't have a 500 mm lens, so thus far, my lion pictures haven't come out this good.

Average

 

Mainly because it's not my genre. I'm not a big fan of black and white and it's too sterile to elicit an emotional response.

 

Is there a way to play with infinity (An infinite table top instead of a finite one)? It would be easier to do that with Photoshop, but it's not impossible to do that in real life (infinite relative to the camera's point of view).

 

If you had two sheets of glass you could have one object right side up with an upside down reflection and another object upside down with a right side up reflection.

Great Picture. Sometimes single element pictures are boring. Here you've combined white water, herons and dark rocks. I like that complexity with attractive elements.

 

I'm surprised by Samuel Dilworth's comments. I thought that a fairly high percentage of photo.net people were nature photographers. When you photograph people, you can run into trouble with privacy issues. It seems easier to photograph animals that won't sue you. What sort of pictures did Samuel have in mind? I like nature photography and might not like his style.