john_bloggs

It's easy to love a good abstract, Marc.  That is not a nature shot, and it is the arty side that is good.  I find it hard to like over processed nature shots.  So many times your color in shots presented as nature is so overprocessed on my calibrated monitor (I do that too) that the picture is lost. Yellow casts on the green, too rich sky... that stuff.  I know, everyone tells you it is great.  Some are, some not, and we all have opinions however your PP is so strong it evokes strong opinion.   I like processed shots but when it is OTT, it slides quickly.  You can see from my comments where this sits.  Nature does it, overblown unnatural fails. It is not that fine a line.

Great shot here.  The light, color and clarity is just spot on.

Yeah... I really like this, it has something that appeals to me. Congrats on a great picture.

I don't like it because the lines are oversharpened and unnatural, clinical and almost an engineers drawing.
I like it because the lines are sharp and it look like an engineers drawing, with some nice hard angles..
I hope that makes sense. I guess I don't like unnatural things and certainly not overdone HDR, but I do like abstracts and architectural ideas and B&W night shots, and in that vein this is quite acceptable to me.

Sharpening halos and lens distortion.  I guess to keep the composition the distortion is hard to get away from - but I would love to see this neat idea done by stitching a few images and making a 3:1 panoramic image.  With your obvious skills in photoshop this could be so much better.

I agree with the person who commented on the aggressive sharpening, which is typical of your post processing efforts and unfortunately spoils the experience of some for your otherwise great pictures.  It isn't fair to claim just a little sharpening for the web when the evidence is in our eyes. I'm unsure about the upper color either... but it is a great composition nevertheless.

Marred again by the oversharpening in the falls which contributes to an unnatural look in an otherwise stunning composition.

Great shot overall.  The sharpness of the line between the sky and the ridges makes the line stand out in an unnatural manner.  Typical blending issue it seems.

This is a pleasant image.

Making the image may require specific monitor calibration, Marc, but your customers will not be expected to have that. Viewing should be OK for the average customer or you risk losing them. The oversharpening halo spoils this one for me as it adds a sense of falseness.  But I like the idea represented.

There's that yellow cast again. Is this a result of your photoshop work trying to get some extra brightness into the work?  Waterfall is a little blown as well. Nice composition spoiled by the cast and the blown waterfall - for someone so adept at arty photoshop a blend here would cure that..

Your work is really very good, very natural, and commendable in every way.  Congrats.

A good leading line and classic composition overall. Nice.

Extremely busy composition, but very natural color.

These same types of flowers are different colors appear in your photographs like they are put there.  

Have to give you points on this one.  This is very nice.

Good composition with a few sharpening issues.  Like the sun placement.

Love this abstract too.

Love this abstract. 

Sharpening halos spoil it for me.Unsure about the color.

You say 'This is the first (albeit maybe not the best) addition to a whole new series of work I will be presenting which features remote sandstone slots and canyons you likely have not seen photographed before. '  I suggest we see them photographed an awful lot however you do things with photoshop that makes them look like a whole new set of places.  I don't like it from a nature viewpoint, or a landscape viewpoint as it is unnatural. I like them form a purely abstract art concept.  Without photoshop we'd have nature, which is preferable to my eyes.

Geez, so much photoshop here in sharpening and color that it spoils it unless I think of it once again as a purely abstract picture. Nice color overall, for certain, but so overdone for nature... We can say it's so OK for abstracts, except that it is presented as nature....

Good points for composition here.  The color is surreal vice realistic once again and that blown piece of sky spoils the UR

A nice abstract.  It certainly is not like any color in any slot canyon seen by man, but the abstract nature works again in this one.

same issues with color and sharpening that marks this work, but in the abstract concepts presented here I think it works well as long as I remember unnatural can be made to work...