OK, you can't wrap it around a leaf, maybe a branch... Way too early in the morn to be typing accurately!

Great exposure level, the light levels are well balanced too.

love this

I would say that this is an amazing photo, but the only thing that is distracting is the blown out leaf in the center. I am surprised at how clearly this shot came out considering the circumstances, but I feel like you can get away with the top leaves being slightly overexposed, but the leaf in the center is a bit distracting and almost noisy.

okey it isnt easy to make good water photos, but i think it should have been longer or shorter exposed. longer to make it smoother, and shorter to make the water clearer, i think this would look the best, if the water would look clearer

Very cool photo! Great capture!

Nicely done!

Best,
Jon

Nice capture!

The lines of the horizon and shore, along with the subject being slightly off centered really makes for a good composition.

superbe, l'ombre et le saut, j'adore

ya just gotta smile when you see this shot.

I find this very nice, but still lacking somehow. The subject is great, the lighting is great. I think it may be the composition that bothers me. I think you may have included too much. I just did a scroll bar crop to loose the whole curve space at the left and about half of the dark shape, it seem then to hold more interest for me?? Is this the natural color, or is this a sepia treatment. This might look better as a strong tonal range B&W.

Amy and Mike: Thanks!!
Beamer: I see what you are saying, I will play with some crops and try to repost this again. This is sepia so I will try B&W as well, thanks for your suggestions!

Amy and Mike: Thanks!!
Beamer: I see what you are saying, I will play with some crops and try to repost this again. This is sepia so I will try B&W as well, thanks for your suggestions!

I agree with the above comments. I also like your use of dof here where you have resisted going too shallow, but have good depth through the length of the strings. The toning works well for me. Nicely done.

Very pleasing

The sun seems a little too blinding to me

But I really like the way it shines off that rock!
if you cover up from the tree branches up it really emphasizes that shine

I agree, it does seem too blinding, however the reflections as well as the compositions are great.

I realized that the lines were not straight as soon as I posted this photo, the "fixed" photo is here
www.vazaar.com/user:narnold/photos/id:32912/

Are you sure about the lines aren't really straight? If you get a closer look to the branches, it looks like they are hanging more vertically to the ground then on the fixed one. Maybe the wall (or building wich it belongs to) is on a incline or something?

Anyway, I love this shot. A bit 'back to nature', victory of the plants who are growing on this wall. And it fits well in this topic. Nice job!

LOL, this is one case where I think this one with the tilt is really better. The other one looses a little interest for me... I might "punch" the tonal range a little on this, then I have been looking at a lot of film lately. My tonal range bias is generally towards a stronger contrast, more punchy. I think this is heavily influenced by my professional work where we shoot a lot of 35mm motion picture film, mostly Kodak Vision 200, sometimes the 800. And more recently, I am shooting still photo's on film again too.

I agree that this shot works perfectly as is and I don't need a reference to a horizontal. If I were to want for anything it would be a little more sharpness and more punch in the leaves towards the top of the frame, but this is very minor. The textures are great.

Good idea, especially the composition and shallow DOF. It's hard to choose between color and b&w, but I think I like the b&w more. I love the reflections of the black keys!

Only minus imo: the reflection on the wooden board. I don't know for sure, but maybe a polarisation filter can prevent that (I'm experimenting with different kinds of filters myself at the moment).

Great picture. I like the B&W, but i think i like the colour better.

This is a wonderful image. In my opinion would be even better if 2 cm from the top is cropped out.

For me the color wins hands down - very beautiful work on this photo.

Cheers,
Jon

i also like the color one better but the white balance seems to be slightly off (too much blue)
i like the reflection in the keys
i also agree that you should try to crop out the top

Cool idea! You shot on the right moment: when the water is curling around your feet. I guess the middle foot is yours? :)

I don't know for sure the pair of trousers visible is distracting. I think if it wasn't there, the shades would feel flat, and it gives extra depth to the image.

Interesting idea, I think the middle leg gets a little lost, maybe a little dodging/burning might help here.

this image could also be cropped more to focus more on the feet. it would also be interesting to see this photo in color

This is a repost of an older photo with some changes that many people made, mainly the cropping. This is the older post www.vazaar.com/user:narnold/photos/id:26446/

Let me know what you think!!

excuse me, that first sentence should be changes that many people made suggestion too, and I made the changes..lol

le moment, la lumiere, c'est superbe, mais j'aime pas le cadrage, trop centré sur le soleil, j'aurais cadre plus sur la droite, pour que les ombres resortent mieux avec ce soleil

i like the changes it's really nice.

I like the cropping/framing of the new one but the tonal range of the old one. Nice capture either way.

actually, this is just one shot. I took this photo about 3 years ago on a vacation and didn't even think to take multiple shots.

Do you use Photoshop? So typically to create a panorama, you can use any lens (really serious photographers prefer telephotos since they have minimal distortion, but I have several from a midrange zoom). Then you use Photoshop (not the best, but lots already own it) and they stitch the images into a panoramic. When you shoot the images you usually lock focus, exposure, and everything else so the images look identical when stitched. As long as nothing moves across the image borders you are fine. Oh and typically you have about 20-40% overlap between images. That's it in a nutshell. Hope that helps.

With all that being said, you have a great image. Did you use a circular polarizer. It would have been helpful to bring more contrast into the sky. But beautiful area.

Jason: no, I don't have photoshop, i've only been using the iPhoto application on my MAC, thanks for the help i'm sure there is a similar application on my computer. I've actually discovered a panorama setting on my current camera that helps with taking photos so i'm going to test it out soon. To your question about a circular polarizer, i'm going to show my photography ignorance and tell you I don't know. I am only but a college student who enjoys taking photography and I really havn't had alot of time to actually study up on photography, that is why I joined Vazaar to hopefully get good insight from other photographers. Saying all that I don't know what a circular polarizer is, but I can tell you did try to increase the contrast and for some reason (and it's only happened in this photo) it didn't help the sky, it brought out more color in the green but not the blue, I can't explain. Thank you so much for your help! That's why i'm here!!

j'adore ce panorama. on sent l'immensité dans cette photo. bravo

Noah,

I'm glad you said you didn't know. So a circular polarizer is a filter that you attach to the end of your lens. There is a lot of science related to optics that goes into how it does it, but to put it simply, it would darken your skies and increase contrast where the image is looking hazy... Here is a simulated shot from a circular polarizer

I like this one much better! What kind of spider is it by the way? The hair on the legs is very interesting.

Thank you!!! This is a garden spider, not sure of any other name (other than Banana spider) This was the orginial photo that I posted of this spider www.vazaar.com/user:narnold/photos/id:31106/

The tighter framing is nice here, because you left some "breathing room" outside the legs. Very dramatic like this. The looser one looses much of the impact.

very nice. and scary.