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As the rain comes and the drought breaks the dams begine to fill. the

grass drowns and there is plenty of rubbish floating around.

thanks you for your kind words, much appreciated.

thank you all for your kind comments.

Thanks for the guideance on the rating scale. As I said i dont pick and choose which photos I rate. I just let them come one at a time and rate every one for a periosd of time. Good, bad or ugly. I hope by being what I consider faif people will comment more on my work and i will learn.

 

While you were up working out my stats last night I took your feedback and when back and fixed the rose. I took all the blemishes off and fixed the white dots as well as removing the romance word. It's much better now and thanks for the advice.

 

I dont think I'll change my rating scale and I'll continue to give advice to the poorer photos rather than just compliment the great ones.

 

Thanks again for your help Roger, any suggestions are much appreciated.

Good advice on those white dots thanks Roger.

 

With critiques I'm always positive and try to suggest things that may help but I do like to at least write something more than a simple well done.

 

On ratings I guess I'm hard but fair. I give a lot of 7's but I do give a lot of 1's as well. I will sit and rate photos for an hour and just do them one after the other, I dont pick and choose, I rate them as they come. I rate nudes as well and photos in a total category selection. If they lack composition, lack clarity and are not original then they get a 1 if they are good they get a 7 in both. It just turns out the average is lower I guess Roger.

 

If i think I can help I will put a suggestion in comments but i dont see the benefit of just telling everyone they are great whhen they are not - that's what flickr is for.

 

Thanks againf for the advice roger, I'm off to fix my dots.

What does everyone think ?

I put this fern shoot in a cardboard bos to control the light. The low light

is a candle behind and the top light is a torch shining in through a small

hole.

taken by putting the rose in a box to control the light source and

direction. Thoughts.

what do people think? I took this by putting the rose on a box so i could

control the light source.

comments please.

What does everyone think?

Gary is right you probably needed to be a bit closer to the grass to bring out the detail and I think you also could have been a little closer to the top of the hill as well to bring the line of mountains in right across the horizon where they are missing on the right side now. Its a great photo and the contrasts are fantastic in colours.

lovely, great composition. and it good you have resisted putting extra saturation in the sunset.

Its a very interesting photo and a great capture, I would like to see a bit more colour brought out in the gold just to brighten that and add a little colour contrast.

This is a bit of a joke. I was at Steve Irwin's Australian Zoo

photographing the tigers with my new 500mm zoom to see how it went.

I was outside the glass area following a big male along the back wall in

the bamboo. when I got near the wall and was about to loose him this

femal popped her head around the corner and looked right at me. she

caught me totally by surprise but the camera was fast enough to re-

focus on her so I hit the button. Hello - I love the look on her face.

I guess it's west of Brisbane up the top of the Brisbane Valley. The actual spot is about 2km from the wall back to the west. I parked the car still in darkness up on the road and stumbled down through a cow paddock. I had scouted the location the afternoon before but didnt mark it or take good measurement on the car speedo so was working off a hunch. This still was not the place but I worked hard as the light came up and thanks to a 50 meter dash as it got light enough to see i ended up with this.

This is a dam about an hours drive from my city Brisbane. I took this

shot early in the morning before the sun cam up on a long exposure.

Nikon D300 with Sigma 10-20mm

The HDR is a little over done for me, around the boad and chair you can see a glow indicating the HDR is over done. Other than that I like it.

Just wonderful, I think it's always good to put some deatils of how you shot it as well so people can admire your skill.

Hard to pick a fault with this, very beautiful. Maybe something a little more interesting in the foreground would be help.

thanks for that advice on the cropping, it's a big file and will still make a big picture even with the cropping.

 

 

Daniel it certainly is a big view. It could have done with something interesting in the foreground up close like a shrub to give the scene more depth and scale. I'm guessing you have lightened parts of the scene given the rays of the sun would not have reached the valley on the left at this stage - those areas have lost a little in contrast. Nicely presented and the clarity is fantastic.

Very nice, I like the bird captured as well. I might need something a little more interesting in the foreground rather than the wall but the colours are nice and the clarity excellent.

Your brilliant

There are r raw exposures here merged in Photomatix then some mud

spots cleaned up off the lens. The colours are as I remember them this

morning when I took these photos happily standing in mud.