I love playing with shots like this - close ups of faces, eyes. Reminds me of one of my shots! www.vazaar.com/user:mrsmorunion/photos/id:16025/

Well done.

Nice macro but a bit too saturated for me...

wonderful! i like the saturation - it adds to the intensity.

Just great work! Really like what you have done with the saturation - this really grabs the viewer - powerful shot.

Best,
Jon

Great photo, but I would have cropped it on the left. Either just cut off the ear, or even go as far as cutting just left of the eyelashes. The left side of the picture has too little interest to offer, given the superb right side. The ear is distracting for me.

Good composition and post-processing.

The shadow across the lemon is not easy to appreciate and tends to distract. I'd disagree with Clyde about cropping and suggest including a bit more negative space in the foreground.

I love the feel of this image and the processing to get it there. I'd love to know how you did this as it's something I've been trying to do myself. Would you mind a bit of info?

Thanks to everyone for the great feedback on this one. Dana, this was quite easy actually - all I did was punch up the contrast pretty high and then increased the saturation. I also cropped the left side to really fill the frame - I didn't want any empty space on wither side of the image. Have a great weekend.

Thanks Bradford...simple technique indeed!

Good job

This was a great moment to capture but the bumblebee is not that sharp and the blurry flower in the left bottom corner is distracting. Also, the light looks flat. I've found recently that shooting at ISO 400 in bright sunlight gives good DOF and very short shutter time (1/250-1/500) which would help. This looks like an overcast day: not enough light.

I agree with Soreks. It's a nice natural composition, which could have been better with the OOF blue flower out of the background. Nevertheless, with a wing beat frequency of around 150/sec, I think the bumblebee's wings would be difficult to get really sharp.

I like this image a lot. NIce color and contrast and the bee is well-positioned. Not an easy thing to do because they move so fast. well done.

+composition
it's very nice

-focus
nothing seems to be really in focus to me

Thanks everyone for your input. In doing the pp on this one I definitely lost some of the focus on the eyes. I'm going to start over and see if I can get a better result. I might post the new version under a different topic, si if you see it please let me know if you think there's an improvement.

was selective desaturation used for this image? Very powerful. Striking. You could have perhaps improved the catchlights in the eyes but I don't feel the image warrnats this. Still strong.

j'aime l'ambiance et le fait d'etre absorber par le regard.

Very nicely done - great eyes and great mouth are a great combination.

Cheers,
Jon

really intimate and striking portrait.i think it's really honest. not a typical expression too. The eye whites seem too.. white thou, was it photoshopped?

i agree with boyd the bottom part (shadow of chin) should be cropped.

I like a lot of this one ;)
Simplicity, colors, very good for me.

Wow - it looks like we were visiting the same place...? vazaar.com/photos/id:29871/

Felicidades!

Gracias Andrés, y a todos por los votos.

wow, just like someone ploughed through the standard windows xp background.

Wonderful color and indeed pity about the curved horizon.

Beautiful color and light - just straighten the horizon and this would be a winner

hey,thanks for all the comments,
i tried correcting the distortion but it didnt really work out,i think i need to read up some more and give it another shot..!

Beautiful color

Colors very nice. I was thinking you used a fish eye lens, so in that case no need to make it straight (actually I like it like that). Nice image but not super because it missing a main subject.

I really like the painterly effect on this one. Lovely tones. Nice work.

instant fave! again wish vazaar's background wasn't white...

belle composition toute en finesse. C'est sur Un fond noir la mettrait en valeur

Agree with the above comments. All positive and I would like to add that the dof that you have used to keep the tree on the right in focus adds beautifully to the scene. Well done.

Very good image! The mood and composition are very good. The colors are special and unique because it contains warm and cold tones.
Personally I don't see much improvement for this image, except the darker little tree(s) behind the three on a row trees is a little bit disturbing. But on the other hand I suppose that a chainsaw was not an option to use here :-)

interesting subject. you should send this to Audi!

very nice!

la classe pour le sujet et ce traitement en valeur de gris

beautiful picture, worthy of a new generation car advert. congratulations for controlling the light and shadows so very well.

Excellent treatment - love the grain.

Best,
jon

Great photo! Makes me smile.

Great landscape but I think You may do it better. I would make it more panoramic first of all! And more details on sand and woods will be also great!

Great shot - the branding is overdone, in my opinion.

Best,
Jon

This is a really beautiful shot. Well done Laura!

très bien construit

I agree with Beamer. Maybe move the watermark to the bottom right, if you must have it at all.