tmjacobs

Fog over Derwent Water in The Lake District. Comments welcome.

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IMO there's something very wrong with the colors in this and a few other photos in this folder: the purple color of the higher trees & mountains is very unnatural. Do you do a lot of postprocessing?

Finally some interesting cloud formations after a dull morning.

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Beautiful! Apart from the artistic value I'm also impressed by the high level of technique in your portfolio: unvariably good exposure, natural colors and splendid sharpness.

Lovely!

I agree this is possibly the best photo in this folder, which is pretty good overall. Great colors/detail.

I don't know which one I prefer (if any), this or the tighter crop elsewhere

in this folder. Again: the seeming lack of symmetry is because this

cloister is not square, but it's an irregular pentagon. Comments

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I hope you still have the original photo's because IMO the post-processing on most of the photos in this folder is not really done well: colors are unnatural, the sky is too noisy, the halos are way too noticeable. I suspect these are HDR images. Anyway, I would try to redo them and maintain a natural look. They do deserve that because despite the flaws they do show the grandeur of the landscape and have great potential.

To be honest I think it's a bit, well, dull. Colors and detail are good, but it doesn't really bring out the dramatic aspect of this wall. I admit that may be difficult at what seems to be the middle of a sunny day, but taking it closer to sunrise or sunset at least gives you warmer colors and deep shadows. Also the thing in the foreground is rather distracting.

Nice light in medieval Magdalen College in Oxford, the green color cast

comes from the foliage opposite the wall. Comments welcome, please

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A fine autumn afternoon. Comments welcome, please view larger, that's

essential.

Very original.

An unusual window at the corner of the cloister of Gloucester cathedral.

This is a composite of 3 vertical HDR images, to get both a close up of

the window and a view of the cloister. It was actually quite a bit darker

than this photo suggests, the longest exposures were 30 seconds.

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detail.

Lovely! It's a pity there isn't a bigger version to give more detail. I've uploaded a rather similar version, but with panorama technique to give an even wider view.

The exquisite fan-vaulting in the cloister of Gloucester cathedral.

Stitched from several HDR images taken on a dull day. Comments

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This is poorly done HDR: the weird sky, oversaturated colors and wrong relative brightness levels. Besides: I wouldn't know if HDR is at all necessary here. I'd say: try again!

Again, very nice colors & composition. I have some similar photos taken in the Netherlands. Your postprocessing is good, it looks very natural. Perhaps the smaller twigs are a tiny bit oversharpened.

Stunning portrait. I don't agree with some of Mark Chartrand's comment: photographing her from the front works very well here, in fact I've seen so many good 'front portraits' that I wonder whether this is a valid 'rule'. About the hands: it may be a rule as well, but in this case both hands look lovely: beautifully textured with an almost 'sculptural' quality. And about her hands being 'disconnected': I don't think for a second that those hands are from another person. The hands add a special quality that sets this portrait apart. This image shows what is generally true for all photography rules: they are meant to be broken from time to time.

Wow, awesome! Must have been great standing there.

This color version is (much) better imo. Splendid photo, good composition/colors/detail, their expressions are captured very well.

Very classy!

Majestic. Good detail & composition.

Pleasant serene atmosphere. I think I would have excluded the large flower in the lower left, it draws too much attention away from the rest of the scene.

Very nice photo, but the color treatment is distracting. The photo is more 'to the point' without it IMHO.

The very typical shape of the Matterhorn, taken on an early april

morning from a path near Zermatt. HDR technique used to avoid

overexposure of the mountain and to get detail in the much darker

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