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Good one. I too feel the right side too bright,w hat Melanie mentioned already. But I don't think cropping off that part will be a good idea because that will push the person to the right edge of the picture. So I feel doging or editing in Photoshop will be a good idea.

Nice composition, especially I liked the way you included the full shadow. But the depth of field is not enough, some part of leaf has no details at all. Secondly the light looks kind of washed out. That's because, I feel, you have chosen wrong time of the day. If it was early morning or late afternoon you would get much better pleasing light and sharp longer shadow.

Yes it depends on personal preference. I loved the soft and pleasing colors of green pasture. That's why I wanted keep the attention on it - at the same time partially-shown barn, scattered equipments and the fence are going to add a dimension for the whole environment. It was overcast sky - perfect light for this kind of painting-like picture. And I don't think this is the right light to show an old barn. Instead I would prefer shiny late afternoon or early morning light for it - so that I can get some hard and dark shadows on wave-like (or corrugated) roof and walls. But again, this is just MY preference.

I loved the soft and pleasing greens. I have two suggestions:

 

1. The sky is white and draws too much attention. It's the only brightest color among all other nice soft colors. I feel it's better to crop the sky out.

 

2. I don't think you need the tree at right side. So crop it out. In fact you don't need to show the whole barn. So crop out some more at right side (my preference - keep only the 1/3 length of the barn...cropping out the wooden bar nailed on wall). That will put the attention to the green pastures in front of barn. I guess that's what you want.

The temple lost all the importance due to bright sky. The sky is so spectacular that my eyes never try to look at the the details of temple. Actually it totally depend what you wanted to show. If you wanted to show the details of temple you should have moved farther close to temple. If you wanted to show the only sky I feel silhoutte of temple would have helped better. You may try that with Photoshop or other softwares.

Beautiful color. A hope of warmth in a cold feel in dawn. But as Jeb mentioned earlier, I would love to see the top of the tress too. Secondly I feel it needed some more depth of field (with 32 or 45 aperture) to get better details of snow and the trees at far distance. Great shot!

Great details with nice pleasing colors. Nice dark background. Truely a good nature shot. Did you try more close-up? I think without that white thing at right, just yellow mushrooms would come great. You may try to crop out and see how it looks. Good picture. Keep shooting.

 

I loved the backlight and all the details against dark background. A nice "expression" from the bird too. Yes, you captured the right moment. Keep shooting Ananda.

Loved the diagonal orientation. Nice color with good details.

Good shot! Humorous portrait with a nice expression! Great color and exposure. I liked the backlight. But the depth of field is very low. The left hand fingers is blurred, right hand is also not so sharp, the hairs are blurred too. Otherwise it's a good portrait. Keep it up!

nice photo. but the corn field looks kind of random, doesn't lead the eyes towards the barn. yes, taking picture from high certainly would make the picture better.

 

Good one. I liked the mood created by colors and the smoky atmosphere. Holy Smoke!

 

I took this picture in Death Valley.

nice picture. beautiful sky. and that little hut certainly adds a dimension into the picture.

I think you can get rid of refection by cropping

the bottom part of picture. that will make the little hut close to the bottom edge. but that's close to middle, I would love if it was placed

slightly at the left or right. so you try cropping left side a bit.

 

Nice one. Very pleasing, at the same time feeling of serenity. Three trees in asymmetric triangular positions makes the composition nice. But I would crop more. Black sky at top, we don't need that

much dark sky. Bottom part some kind of lost, so we can crop that part too. And little bit of cropping at left side. At the end after cropping these three sides, I think, the picture should be square size.

 

Creates a nice mood of late afternoon or early evening.

But the lamp post at dead center, devides the the picture into two parts - left and right.

I would try to put the lamp post at right side and all the seagulls at left side of it.

 

Beautiful pleasing picture. I loved this monochrome color, it creates a peaceful pleasing mood. But when my eyes fall down with water flow I get the right bottom edge of the picture - which makes the eyes unsatified. I think the picture needed some more space at this bottom right corner.

 

 

This is my first uploaded picture taken at Bodie State Historic Park.

Please feel free to comment on this picture.

A nice sandwich. I liked the combination.

I loved the green leaves in dark background.

This is just my suggestion, which is not necessarily the only way to make your picture better.

I would certainly crop the right side, keeping

the the partial round part of the pot out of

picture. Also cropping little bit of bottom part.

It will put the broken small pot into the lower

right corner of the picture, a good case of one third rule.

 

Overall, picture is great with nice details, nice composition, nice pleasing colors.

 

BTW, Did you try keeping the whole big round shaped pot into the picture frame?

 

Beautiful and creates cold pleasing mood. Good composition, good exposure.

What a nice mood picture. I loved it. But what Scott said is right. But I feel still it's ok.

But it certainly would look better if you have shown more at the left side, I mean more trees. I am saying because in this picture the small branches suddently came out from the left corner of the picture, which doens't look very good. If you had shown the "real trees" of these branches, you wouldn't need any big branch.

 

Nice Shot. But I don't think lower part is required in the picture. You are trying to show the alignments of birds sitting on the wooden posts, the bottom part certainly doens't add anything in that alignment. So you can simply crop off 1/3 at the bottom and make it more or less

like square size photo. Polarizing filter could make the sky more darker. That way you would get more contrast and color saturation. Current picture is too bright.

 

Or I would keep the sun somewhere at the top where

tree started branching out (perhaps in between the main tree and the major branch at left which

came out from tree at the bottom of the picture). That would give a feeling of togetherness between sun and tree (I don't know how to express it, only picture can do it). But in this picture this odd location of sun

with the tree doesn't show that.