retief_elkhart

I'm not half the photographer you are. So what?

This doesn't seem dreamy to me; it looks precarious and uncomfortable.

This would be even better had the bird been a goose, goose-stepping.

It's a good concept, but would have worked better for me if the blur had been horizontal, suggesting the musician's hand sliding quickly over the frets of the instrument. A vertical blur is perfectly sensible, players do move the neck up and down, but horizontal - or, more likely, a mix of horizontal hand blur and vertical instrument blur - would just seem more musical to me.

An excellent Van Gogh effect, but the lighting on the foreground tree seems backwards: if the sun is setting (or rising) behind the castle, how can our side of the tree be so well lit?

The vertical-line texture effect here doesn't work for me. It would be great in a gloomy swamp full of weeping willows, but here it seems to just drag things down. Was it just a trick of the light, or did you add it in post?

"All she wants to do is dance."

Sorayama's art. Pretty effective BDSM shot, but a less pained expression would have made it even cooler. Also, she needs a wire clipper, not scissors!

Looks like the focus might be just a wee bit soft. Hard to argue with the excitement, though.

Her face is just slightly too smooth, but the tops of her breasts are way too soft. The razor-sharp hair adds to the incongruity.

I don't think it's too desaturated. But there's something odd about that black line at the bottom of her skirt; it pops too much. That black square behind her left knee is a bit of a distraction, and I question the choice of black shoes on a black carpet. This shot has blackness issues!

The rain droplets too perfectly match the curve of her hair. A child would have rubbed it clear in a circle.

I love motorcycles pictures and have just started to shoot them myself, so I don't pretend I can do any better than this, but it lacks a sense of speed. It might have been better from the other side (assuming you could get there) where we could see the rider hanging off, which gives a sense of excitement.

 

His visor is open, which seems odd.

 

Maybe it would seem faster from a more acute angle; taken from the side like this, it's difficult to see how far the machine is leaning.

 

Good effort, Oldrich, and thanks for posting it. Now I want to go see if I can do any better.

Look at this shot

 

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8486354

 

of a bird doing much the same thing with a fish. Lots of water there, too. I guess a large quantity of water is pulled up by surface tension when an object, such as the model's head, is quickly removed from the water. So it is not necessary for her hair to actually hold it. Not so silly after all!

The longer I look at this, the less believable it becomes. How can hair that short hold that much water? I guess we're supposed to think she just pulled her head out of the water, creating the arc. If so, why is there no water dripping from her face? It's like a James Bond movie; fun to look at, but ultimately silly.

The reflections in the water don't make sense. How is it that we can see her reflection on our side of the ripples?

Lovely light, but not the best pose. A bit too much upper thigh, especially on her right leg. Also her shoes are lost in the shrubbery.