Juanantonio: Gracias!

What an interesting perspective/composition! Very imaginative.

Me gusta tambien. :)

that's a really cool capture. i like the look through the window into a rainy day. nicely done!

Lamdennison. Muchas gracias! It is the front door at a small ship going between the islands in the archipilago.

taikrixel: You should come here and visit our climat. :-) After a while you starts to miss the sun. ,-)

Bon coup d'oeil...

You've 'caught' her beautifully...and his inquisitiveness! ;o)

Mark,

Great work on this one - very special. By the way, do you know Thomas Hawke? Just curious.

Best,
Jon

Thank you lolly. Jon, my apologies for taking three months to respond, but candidly, I do not stop here too often anymore. I do not know who Thomas Hawke is. Do I owe him money? ;-)

Great candid shot

Nice picture, Craig. Reminds me William Klein work in NY

Wow. Spectacular shot, and thanks all for the great tutorial. I have yet to play with HDR, but this prompts me further to go explore it.

Thanks Craig! If you get stuck feel free to e-mail any questions my way. Lots of good links out there on how to do this properly.

Very pretty but a little too dark for me

Beautiful seascape/sunset shot. HDR seems very popular lately and therefore, for me it quickly looses its appeal. However, landscapes like this really gain from a modest use of the technique.

Great post-processing.

Thanks for all the comments.
couldn't make it stronger without your comments!

I knew it was a good image, just had to find the right balance!

I agree that this is better, I still wish you had burned the face a bit more. Do you use dodge and/or burn brushes or perhaps layer masks?

love the emotion this photo communicates!! Excellent job!

Beamer,

A burn on the face may lift this a bit.
What i had done.
Run through a noise removal script.
Set the noise removal to be as high as possible without loosing details.
I then duplicated the layer and ran a bw film simulation script.
Adjusted contrast and curve on the BW layer.
I then set it to overlay with a value of about 50% or so.

Straightened the verticals, cropped and posted.

So yes i probably could burn a bit to add some emphasis.

Thanks for the comment Noah!

@Boyd: about those leaves, your probably right. I saw that later, but it costed me a lot of time to get a suiteble photo... I'm not really photogenic :P plus I got to held the frame in the right position. I thought it wasn't really bad, so I desided to leave it this way.

Thank you all for your comments.

The composition is good, and I'm not distracted by the leaf next to you eyes. I do have the feeling that I'm missing some focus on your face.,,

Greetings, Laura
www.lauravink.nl

Lot's of room for that big heart of yours!! Nice one Tamara!!

Beamer... thanks... and Laura... dankjewel :)

Nice Magritte like composition.

I love the action and flow of this, but the treatment does call a lot of attention to itself. To me that's the rule, if I find myself looking at the treatment/technique rather than the subject, then the treatment has failed...

Clyde - I'm in agreement with your rule - well stated.

Cheers,
Jon

interesting postprocessing, but i think colour or bw would be cooler here. i'm not a friend of colour experiments!

I like the idea. You have strong contrasting colours for a black and white but this image would have benefitted from a more selective use of colour. As suggested, perhaps just the one person.

Nice capture and beautiful frame... but I have some problems with the colorization in post-prod.

Beamer, Tamara, Jon,

Thanks all of you for your interest and inputs on this photo. I am putting one more like this on critique soon!

superbe et impressionnant grâce aux minuscules personnages. Un léger manque de contraste

Lasiate, Merci pour vos commentaires! Le gars dans l'image donne cette échelle.

I love the way that the line through the rocks carries your eye across the frame. Agree with the positive comments above, well done.

Thanks Boyd!

Great!

Hola Ana;

Me gustaría darte las gracias por no sólo ver mi foto sino por dejarme un comentario.
Respecto a lo que escribes del arbusto, me gustaría que fueras un poco más específica para saber en que términos éste no coincide con los elementos principales y en su caso, cómo mejorarías la situación.

Un saludo,

David

Thank you Kostas, I'm glad you like this pic

Hola David:
A mi juicio, los elementos principales son las jirafas, y el árbol "rompe" deshaciendo una posible monotonía en el tema, y queda perfecto el encuadre. Pero ese arbusto me distrae, es un tercer elemento que para mí no conjuga del todo bien, creo que sobra. Lo de arreglarlo ya es otro tema (clonando quizá), yo no soy experta así que se lo dejo a otros que te puedan orientar en este tema.
Saludos.

Hola Ana,

Te agradezco tu explicación.

Esta foto es documental y ha sido publicada en varios medios, con lo que no hay posibilidad de manipulación (...aunque esta versión está bastante más saturada que el original y tiene un poco de dominante verde debido a la conversión del espacio de color adobe rgb al sRGB).

En cualquier caso, no estoy de acuerdo en lo que apuntas. Verás, en mi opinión, el arbusto equilibra los pesos de la imagen. De no existir ese objeto en la escena, la imagen estaría claramente descompensada. La parte izquiera tendría mucho más peso. Creo que podría afirmar que con toda seguridad, de no haber estado ese arbusto allí, habría hecho la foto unos segundos antes para rellenar ese vacío con la figura de una jirafa.

Aprecio tu interés y el hecho de haberme prestado tu atención y sore todo tu tiempo.

Muchas gracias.

Atentamente,

David

je ne la connaissais pas celle là..!! elle est superbe.Quel cadrage et tonalités..!!

One of the best photos I have seen in a long time.

Such a cool compliment! Tank you so much BJ!

o:)

moi aussi une des plus belles photos de ces derniers temps!! bravo

merci beaucoup, Elaine!