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 | Good photo! Try cropping a little off the top so that the mast is 2/3 of the way up the frame. That enhances the mast and still emphasises the height they are working at. By: landandsea |
 | Good attempt, and I like the people, gives it a focal point. But look at your horizon, the sea is at an angle. You should level the horizon. I make the same mistake all the time! By: kevlense |
 | I agree with Dave, if you are including reflections there is no way you can use the 1/3 2/3 rule. But you have used it in your positioning of the castle, well done. If you use PS I might think about putting in a gradient filter over the top of the sky, that darkens the top slightly and stops the eye from disappearing out of the top of the picture. Apart from that, a lovely photo. By: crookymonsta |
 | Thanks for the comments folks. I agree about the plant stalk, it would be too difficult to clone it out because of the way it overlaps the frog's foot. I did clone out a stalk that was coming out of his head! I'll try sharpening it, and see if it helps. By: camay |
 | That's interesting Mike. I've played around with it, changing to a square format alters the prominence of the boathouse markedly. Taking out the willow works quite well. I was hanging over a gate marked "PRIVATE" when I took this shot, I was tempted to go in so as to alter the angles but I wouldn't like someone doing that to me, so I didn't, even though the house was on the other side of the road. By: camay |
 | It looks a lovely church, but I think I would clone out the no entry sign right in the middle of the image. It draws the eye and spoils the church. Just clone it black. By: cameraman |
 | Love the shadow but don't like the halo around the tree, I immediately knew it was HDR By: sandyd |
 | Thanks folks, I will work on all you've said. What you didn't pick up on and is a real fault of mine is that the photo is not quite horizontal! I tend not to notice until I've posted which is much too late. By: camay |
 | Agree about making the foreground lighter. Also you need to straighten the image so that the wind turbines are vertical. By: mlseawell |
 | It was taken at knee height. I was a metre or so from the edge of the water. By: camay |
 | It may just be an optical illusion because of the coastline, but it doesn't look quite straight. I've rotated it just a little in my mod, it looks more level and the trees still look upright. By: SKSmiv |
 | I think, but I'm not sure that it's a juvenile starling. The spots are beginning to develop on the body. By: Bowenite |
 | I really like this. At first I thought it would have been great if the person had been sitting in the beam of light. Since she's not I think you could lighten the white top and face a little to make them stand out more. By: bikerone |
 | Very well caught. It's a bit of a pity you have lost her feet, and probably a bit too much background. What about cropping off part from the rhs? By: DonSchaeffer |
 | Great expression. By: booey7 |
 | I told you not to come any closer!!! Wonderfully threatening expression! By: DanZed69 |
 | Very nice photos. I would probably have taken out the staining at the base of the 3rd rose, but that's a matter of taste. By: evelen |
 | If you zoom in on her eyes it becomes obvious that the catchlights in her eyes are there because the sun must have been behind you and so what you are seeing is the sky with a sillouhette of you in the centre. The catchlights lift the image up to a higher level, you want to have them if you can. I think it's a lovely image. Not sure about the straightening of the horizontals. You were probably standing at an angle to the bench, the seat is perfectly horizontal which means the back can't be. What you could do is take a horizontal from the back and crop in, that removes the blurred hand. Leave enough of the back of the bench to give some sort of frame though, showing the peepo game. By: myskinnylegs |
 | I think the hair angle gives the feel of motion of the swing, if you had a slow shutter speed you might not get such a wonderful expression on her face. She stands out very well from the background because of the focal length of the lens. Lovely By: sthrn_gal |
 | Love the light and colour, not the subject! Brrr! By: lonely_oryx |
 | I think you have achieved a very natural looking shot here, it certainly doesn't look over-tweaked. And the detail in the windows is excellent. If the walls are white you might want to adjust the white balance in Photoshop and remove some of the yellow cast caused by the lighting. All I did in the mod was to decrease the yellow saturation level. By: jaybeeyay |
 | I like the way the light has outlined the deer, making it really stand out from the background. By: Brian65 |
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By: camay |
 | I like the colour in this, and the different areas, the light area with almost nothing, and the area with the tiny beads/whatever they are on the lower left. I'm not so keen on the darker area, it may just be my eyesight but I'm tending to peer to see what's there. Could it be lightened a little? The second one I like better. By: phaz99 |
 | Lovely colours and detail on this, I like the tiny hairs on the strawberry surface standing out. By: v8dunc |
 | Crit buddy. By: Artois |
 | Crit Buddie (this is very new to me!) By: jeanie |
