jay_patel

Nicely done...I have always enjoyed your animal portraits. This is no exception. Hope things are going well with you.

Very cool shots. Anyone who can make downtown look this good is obliviously very talented. :-)))

-Jay

You did not misunderstand my posting...your critique is well taken. It was that I used to strive for technical perfection as well...but as sales of our photograph have grown I find myself asking the question. Does technical perfection really matter? Does shooting at golden hour lead to most publications?

Darwin's article raises a very good point...as a photograph what should we focus on?

Thanks for taking time to critique. -Jay

Combination of transmitted and reflected light often creates a perceptions that the reflection is brighter then the source. This is particularly true in dark areas of the sky as seen in the bottom of the vertical image. In this image there is almost no reflected light from sky allowing us to see through the water.

Having said that I am well aware that some of the areas of reflection are slightly brighter then it source...and it was my choice to leave it that way (I could have corrected them if I choose to do so).

Does technical perfection make for more print sale?? To this regard here is an interesting blog post by Darwin Wiggett: http://darwinwiggett.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/hdr-follow-up/

Thanks for taking time to comment.-Jay

When the right light and right location come together the results arenothing short of spectacular. While shooting at Beauty Creek we raninto cloud formations that produced some of the most brilliant lightdisplay of our trip to Canadian Rockies. I have to give credit to ourhost Darwin and Samantha for showing us this location.

Technical Details: To capture this photograph I used a 0.9 Hard EdgeGND filter. Because I was shooting looking directly into the sun, evenwith a 0.9 ND filter I had to bracket my shots. These bracketed shotswere combined using our iHDR workflow to bring out the colors anddetails in both the sky and reflection.

Just fantastic!!! The colors and composition are one of the best I ahve seen.

-Jay

Very action shot. It is sharp and the eye are well lit. I rarely post on photo.net anymore....I am not a big fan of the ratings game. Hope you are doing well.

-Jay

Hey...I know exactly where the photo was taken. Too bad the autmun colors were not there when I was there. :-)))

-Jay

In pursuit of dramatic skies we drove to remote part of Maine andvisited Baxter state park and selected this small river to photographthe autumn colors. Just before the sun disappeared over the horizon,it lit up the top of the tree with a brilliant golden light throughthe crack in the clouds of approaching storm.

Baxter State Park, Maine.

Location: Somewhere in Northen Arizona

All comments are welcome.

Very nicely done. Good work!!

-Jay

All C&C welcome.

As the skies above Yellowstone National Park put on a show of their own, I selected this lonely flower as my foreground object. Complementary pink colors of the flower stand out within sea of green grass.

Location: Yellowstone National Park, WY.

All critiques and comments are welcome.

Locaiton: Olympic National Park, WA.

All C&C welcome.

One of my favorite photos in your portfolio. Tells a story...Well done.

-Jay

Sorry to hear about your knees, but you will like this place. You can drive up to Maroon Lake and walk 30 yards and you are on shores of Maroon Lake with a spectacular view in front of you. No hiking necessary!!

Thanks for the comment on my photograph. I like Walter's version as well.

-Jay

Thanks for the suggestion. Your adjustment is pretty small...and the results are not that far off the original image. Let me try that in the larger file and see what it looks like.

-Jay

We got to Maroon Bells early in the morning and were quickly disappointed as it was snowing intermittently. Ever so hopeful, we waited in the snow and rain hoping for some color in the sky, but the cloud cover was to thick for a dramatic sky. Instead I did manage to catch this moody shot of a Fire Storm as sunlight finally made its way to the mountain in front of us.

Tech data: Canon 5D, Canon 17-40 F4 L, 2s@F20, 0.6 Soft ND Grad Filter, White Balance Manual.

Very nice impression. The photograph tells the story of the mordern times very very well. Good work.

-Jay

It is real. You can get the star pattern if you stop down your aperture to around F22. The number of flare arms depends upon the number of diaphram in the lens.

Thanks for taking time to comment on this image.