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I like the composition. Did you experiment with different exposures? I'd like to see the stem highlights brought back under control but regardless a strong image.

I like the composition and the color treatment and she is a beautiful model. Really, the only thing that turns me off is the way her hands are posed. It just looks uncomfortable and kind of draws my attention away from her face. Even so, this is a really nice portrait.

You get a 7 for aesthetics because this is a photo of the most beautiful place on Earth! (And, no, I am not referring to the side judge's rear end!)

GO GATORS!!!!!!!

Nice. As others have said, the symmetry and anonymity are what make this image work well. I'd like to see the original without the JPEG artifacts. Oh, well, it's the price we pay for short download times.

I don't know what amazes me more - how big that mushroom is, or how you managed to hold the camera steady while face-to-face with the giant fly!

Nice portrait. I'd have been tempted to Photoshop it to get rid of the woman in the background sitting on the wall and also the two people standing near her. They don't add anything to the photo, IMO.

Very nice. Good timing and composition.

Maybe you should buy a tripod... ;) Seriously, though, I like the colors and the flow of the lines. This works very well.

Very nice. The bright colors add a lot of visual interst and the eyes of the girl peeking out from behind tell a little story about what she's feeling.

Good action shot! Nice use of the fisheye.

I like the composition. I might like to see the sky burned in a bit more, but that's just my taste.

Nice abstract. Excellent use of light and composition.

Not your fault, but I wish it was grass in the foreground instead of dirt.

It has the potential to be a nice abstract, but the umbrella in the foreground doesn't work for me. It takes away from the strong graphic element of the parallel lines, in my opinion.

Nice portrait. A little dodging to bring out detail in the eyes might be nice.

Nice light. Good composition

Good, creative idea. Might have looked more realistic with greater depth of field. Angle of shadow from tree not quite right as compares to shadows on "landscape".

James,

 

I like your image. It reminds me a bit of Ansel Adams' church at Bodega, California. If I may be allowed to nitpick, I would have like to see the church lower in the frame with more sky, since the sky seems so great. Alternatively, it might have been nice to have the church much more prominent in the frame by moving closer and lowering the camera nearer the ground. Nevertheless, it's a fine shot and I wish I could make more photographs that are this good.

Good perspective. It seems the contrast is a bit low, but that's just my taste.

This is an OK photo, but I don't really get anything out of it other than it is a snapshot of a boat going by. It's also a bit hard to view since it's too big in pixel dimension to fit on my screen without scrolling. Try to keep the longest dimension of your JPEGs under 800 pixels for easier web viewing.

Nice use of the light. The composition and colors are pleasing to me.

This is 1000% better than your "Kung-Fu Squirrel" pic. The lean of the body gives the shot the apparent motion it needs, even the lone nut in the background gives the image a little balance. And the eyes are in focus. Most importantly, there's no attempt to "fix" it with Photoshop.

IMO, the use of the radial blur is a crutch for a poorly composed photograph. If you want to give your subject some motion, you should allow some room for him to move in the frame instead of using a cheesy special effect. I know rules are meant to be broken but, in this case, "don't place your subject in the exact center of the frame" shouldn't have been, at least if you wanted to give the illusion of motion.

 

I also agree that the Photoshopping is rather crudely done. Yes, you're right that the fine hairs on the rodent's tail were probably a "nightmare", but if something's worth doing (and IMO it wasn't in this case), it's worth doing well. I also don't see what is so difficult about doing a radial blur in Photoshop. Hell, somebody else (i.e. the Adobe code writer) has already done all the work, all you needed to do was apply the filter.

 

The shot is cute, but not terribly "original". You just pointed the camera, it was the squirrel who struck the pose, and, I'm assuming now, did so without any direction or instruction from you. It also appears that, in pointing the camera, you failed to focus on the subject's eyes.

 

 

I could spot this fraud even in the thumbnail. The "sun" is obviously a photoshop addition unless, of course, there was a second sun out of frame to the left to cast the shadows of the ridges on the mountain. The "lens flare" is a dead giveaway, too. In that position, it's virtually impossible that a lens flare would be in a perfect circle around the light source.

 

Shame on you for claiming it is genuine.

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