Lovely image, I love the comp, fg, and detail. In my opinion, the thing that appears a little odd is the sky, A bit too purply maybe?
Diane

Hello Billy, Portrait images are not something I feel really up to speed on to critic but I can say that in V1the image is spoilt by cropping off the beard as this is a major part of the subjects character, the detail and light are good but the bg is a bit like a photo booth curtain The subject also has a very uninterested look on his face.........................
All that said I love what you have done to V3............. Excellent work Billy
Diane

Hi Billy............. me again I am presuming by your V2 that you have done a bit of arty stuff to this one I have done you a mod in this sort of style for you. Now I love doing this sort of stuff but not all images work with this sort of processing so be prepared to dump a lot (not the original though) and start again. Also bear in mind that the more times you open an image to edit it you lose quality.
With V2 I can see you have turned it to mono and inverted the colours. I started my mod in a similar way and then carried on playing adding colour, contrast, playing with the curves on the histogram, added some solorization etc. The thing with this sort of image is to keep your mind open to what the finished result will be, some work really well and some dont. Keep playing Billy, you are doing great
Diane

Hi Billy Great bit of rust you have taken here, lots of crusty textures and colours
I have done you two mods, in the 1st one, I have corrected the exposure and desaturated it quite a lot after correcting the colour, I think there is a bit too much red in this, and a bit over saturated as a whole. A lot of rusty images are way over done as people think rust is all about colour, where it is also the texture. Oversaturating often takes away a lot of the texture in rust, in my opinion, better to reduce the saturation and then up the contrast a bit. There is some noise in the image, I have learnt while being on EPZ that if you reduced your ISO to 100 you wil get less noise in a close up.
I gave it a tiny noise reduction by applying a jpeg artifact remover (I have this on my software) If I applied noise reduction it Wiped off all the detail. In the second mod I have just removed more red, just to show what a difference too much red can do to a rusty image. Love photographing rust, it is all so different and there is always some rust begging for a photo shoot Hope this helps, Look forward to your next rusty shot!
Diane

Hello Billy, Nice set. I am presuming that V2 is the processed of V1, and that V4 is the processed of V3?
V2 is fine improvement on V1 so I have done a mod on V3 (I am presuming this is original) anyway, you have made some improvement in V4 but you have cropped away the over exposed sky which I feel affects the composition. So I have altered the exposure of the sky using the graduation curves of the histogram and fiddled with the saturation, colour balance and contrast till I felt happier with it. I then corrected the horizon a fraction, but it is hard to see the correct horizon for the mist ( this is not a critisim, the mist looks good) and finally gave a small sharpen. Hope you like it, and hope this helps. I have noticed a definate improvement in your images lately, good work
Diane

Hello Billy, I have done a mod for You too, I have croppped away some of the bg to give a fuller frame, a lot of the bg was not needed, I rotated the image just slightly and altered the exposure and colour a little and finished with a sharpen, Hope you like it, but I do like Martins mod, looks great with the border
Diane

Great shot, love the comp and grass, it almost looks like astro turf I have done two mods for you, The first in colour, I rotated a bit to take the curve into the corner of the image, I slightly altered the colour adding a touch of red that gave a bit more drama to the sky, gave a touch of contrast and brightness and then altered the graduation curves of the histogram slightly to add more drama to the sky then a little sharpen last of all. I have also done a mono version, after converting to mono I aded a tiny bit of red and blue to give a slight hue to the B&W. Hope you like them
Nice image
Diane

Hello again, what a great modern building, I have done you a mod, firstly I have cropped the image removing the tree on the left, this helps with the straightening issue because the tree was never going to be straight, and when you have definate verticals to deal with, a wonky tree will sometimes interfere with what is important,if you get my meaning. I then staightened to the poles that to me are the most important verticals in the picture. After that I have just altered the exposure, colour ans contrast slightly to give more strength and a tiny sharpen. Great image to start with, hope this helps
Diane

Hello, i have had a go at a mod for you. At first I tried small alterations, but it had no impact on the foreground, the main problem being the fg is way over exposed so you have lost all the detail but when I solorized the image you could see the detail was there in the image, you can see the flagstones etc. So I aterered the histogram curves quite dramatically and then went on to do all the basic saturation, contrast etc, and finally a selective sharpen. Hope you like it
Diane

Hello, I have done a mod for you, I have slightly darkened by altering the graduation curve on the histogram, and croped away the gazeebo making a squarer crop, keeping the sky and reflections, I desaturated a little and gave it a little selective sharpen. Nice image and good mods from Dave and Martin too
Diane

Hi, I have uploaded a mod for you. I altered the exposure, the original was rather over exposed, then changed the colour cast which gave the bg a pinkish colour to make a contrast between the bg and the flower, I removed the noise from the red and blue only making the bg smooyher but keeping the noise in the green so not to loose detail in the flower. I removed a hot pixel or two and gave it one sharpen. Hope you like it
Diane

Hi Billy,
Had another shot at this, much better comp. I straightened the image which took away the bit of path in the corner, corrected the histogram and then altered the graduation curves slightly to lighten the darker areas. I removed just a bit of green.
Diane

I have done a mod for you, Sraightened the horizon and altered the exposure slightly, gave it just a little more saturation and added a bit of light that lifted the colour of the water. There is a good few hot pixels but I didn't remove them because it took away the lamp posts and other detail on the seafront. I didn't sharpen either.
Lovely image. great view, Hope you like it
Diane

I have done a mod for you. I cropped of the bg as much as possible and gave it more saturation and contrast, also a sharpen. Didn't remove any noise as this took out all the detail in the water making it appear smooth.
Diane

I have done a mod for you, I cropped off a lot of the shadow,which I think makes the comp better, being less central, I altered the graduation curve a little to take away a bit of the light that was a bit strong. It has a lot of noise, but taking it all away looses all the sharpness, so I reduced it slightly. Great shell, but I think Iit would take a better photo on a plain bg
Diane

Like this, great comp colour and light, the path really draws you in with great perspective.
I think it need just a tiny straighten to bring the right down a bit. the fill in flash has worked great on showing up the detail in the wood, maybe a bit too light at the top though? Hope you don't mind me saying this, I was looking for a long time, so I really do like it
Diane

I have done a mod for you, I think the main problem was the exposure, because you were shooting straight up into the sky it was loosing all the colours and detail in the bird, I corrected the exposure best I could and gave it more saturation of colours, I did a tiny bit of blur before a bit of sharpening which got rid of the whiskers round his face. Hope this helps
Diane