This is a very strange photography. I cant pic out a context. I like it. Was it a flat bed scan?

Great subject with great potential but I think it's a little dark and for the topic the saturation of the red should be cranked up.

like the way the light is playing with these flowers.. lovely colours and composition, there is so much movement in this picture..
lovely!

I'm doing ok.. just recovering from a cold..
here in Belgium autumn has entered the building ;)
wich is ofcours brilliant for us photographers, it's the season of rusty colours and beautiful light..

the picture you've mentioned isn't mine, it's Robin's..
he has a blog here on Vazaar to.. www.vazaar.com/user:Ourlittlehood/

Ourlittlehood.aminus3.com is me and Robin's blog.. we started it a few months ago since we are both so passionate about photography..

but I will ask him to post the pic ;)

btw.. I'm always suprised of you liking my pictures that much, I think you are my biggest fan ;)
thank you for that!! I appreciate your comments a lot.. when I open my blog it's always a big pleasure to read something from you..

take care my friend.. enjoy life!!

Thanks everyone! dreamer: I wish, I'm too poor for analogue anymore, it's digital with some tweaking in Adobe Raw. Having fun with new settings...

I love the dark background Nice.

Did you put the leaves on the table? Just kidding. Great!

Great take and colors
this is impressive, dof great

Bravo!

I particularly appreciate the realistic color rendition. Everybody seems to just ramp up the saturation because they can. I'm so glad you didn't.

Improvement ?... Well... maybe a leaf on the chair ? :-)))

Excellent !!

This has a lot of feel to it. I like it. Simple elegance.

very nice angle on the huge dude. funny!

Long time no see Beamer. I love the photo, the girafe was nice to you.

Yes, she is a sweetie, ate leaves right out of our hands. She is nearly 18 feet tall. We were on the back of a photo safari truck.

Thanks everyone for the comments!!

Beautiful! The blue sky is beautiful and great timing with the giraffe! That angle really works!

Love the angle and the bright blue sky. Nice.

Thank you to everyone who commented. I am humbly surprised... I always loved this photo, but I didn't think anyone would agree with me. =)

I am also a little surprised that so many people feel the highlights are blown. I'm sure you're right, I just never noticed, and still don't fully understand. It however is a fabulous illustration to me of what I still need to learn. Can someone help me understand? Is it the fact that there are large areas in the clouds that don't retain any detail or is there something else I'm not uderstanding?

And thank you everyone for the input on the vignetting. I'm still exporing different ways to achieve these types of effects and the visions I have in my head don't always suit the photo, or even suit my skill level.

Thanks everyone.

amazing picture. beautiful.

i like the colours and clouds and feeling. could be more space for clouds.

I am in love with this photo, it is the setting of an epic adventure!

A golden masterpiece!

the bulbs that are lit seem almost too bright...not sure how to fix that...but i love the shadow on the wall

This subject has a lot of potential. The tonal range is actually the best part of this right now. The image needs some breathing room at the top and left and needs to be straightened somehow. Do you have any more image??

There is pretty much no room other than what is seen. There is actually two paintings that hang above it. I didn't want the bottom of the paintings in the shot. I took mulitple shots. I will see if I can play around with one of the others. Thanks for the comments as usual.

If you can't add to the top, I'd consider a close crop on the bottom perhaps to help balance the subject? Love the shadow.

I took your suggestion light and cropped the bottom. I will repost it when I can. Thanks for the advice.

thank you for your feedback

I like the shot, but there is a lot going on here. I agree with Tammy that you should have cropped it.

Love this. Might suggest a bit of level adjustment to bring out the white moss a bit more, but lovely otherwise.

Kimberly, thank you for your kind comments

reposted here www.vazaar.com/user:warreagle/photos/id:21684/

actually this came from a compact point and shoot...was walking around in the yard and saw the berries...had it in my pocket

Most of what I said still applies. Get yourself a little lightweight tripod at Target or Best Buy for about $20. Most of the point and shots have threads to mount on a tripod. The biggest problem you will probably have is how close it will focus.

You may also try changing the position of your subject (in this case the Berries) in different parts of the frame (as opposed to dead center).

As an exercise, Go back out to the yard and take a few more photos of the same berries. Place the berries in a different part of the frame in each shot (top left, lower left, top right, lower right etc)

Review these images and you may find certain ones appeal to you more than others. Looks for other elements in the each position like the leaves hanging off the sides. See how these add or detract to the overall image in the different versions of the shot.

If you like the shallow dof (as I do) you might consider lowering your camera angle so that the background gets more distance from the subject as the ground stretches away from you. It's a quick way of getting dof when working with a compact.

thanks everyone for the suggestions

This is beautiful!!!!!! Nicely nicely nicely done.

Sorry, that was my backup account. That comment was meant to be from me... :)

Where was this taken?

I took this while driving on the Mackinac bridge in northern michigan.

Thank you for the comments!

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Feels a little "snapshot". The image needs to be straightened, the building tilts up on the right. The framing/cropping at the top is very tight to the tip of the tower, needs a bit of breathing room.

this place is so big perhaps a wide angle perspective would work well

agreed with beamer.
It needs to be straighten out. you also should have waited for the tourists in the foreground to move out of your first plan. and you have too much ground and not enough sky...

Since it appears unlikely you can reshoot this, you might consider cropping the bottom right up to the line of birds to balance the close crop on the top.

thanks

Definately a great choice for the subject! I agree with Tammy, it seems a little soft and the rust would really stand out with a lillte more focus on the blades.

And by the way....Roll Tide! :)

Thanks for the comment! Sounds like we're in the same state :)

LoL I don't know how I guessed! ;)

I love the composition, it such a shame about the focusing, but sometimes that's just what happens depending on camera or lens. I have a tiny thought to perhaps crop in a bit on the left to pull more into the rust? Don't know if it would work though...

Love the colours... :)