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I might try burning/reducing the highlights in the clouds directly above the man, as well as a bit of his back.

The image has ‘a very slight’ tilt to the left (I’m using my ‘windows frame’ as a guide when I scroll the image up).

Thanx Lenny.  I always enjoy viewing your images!

My apologies Lenny.  I missed the 10×7 requirement.  Here’s a revised version incorporating the dimensions.  I’ve moved the image slightly to the left to incorporate a little bit more ocean, as I found this horizontal positioning more pleasing to my eyes.

Just a different view of it…  cropped the bottom and removed the bottle cap.

Tough choice… does one balance the building in the image, or the lamp posts. Having the lamp posts align with the centre window post would have made the image stronger, but then the building alignment would have been off.

If you would crop out the window frame with just the lamp posts visible (and aligned with the centre window post) it would…[Read more]

You can try different ‘gels’ on your flash to provide different colours of smoke.

Or… copy the background layer a couple of times and then use the ‘colour select’ on each layer and change the smoke colour.  Then mask out various portions of each layer to provide a multicolored effect.

One last thought that I’ve seen is to use several…[Read more]

A polarizing filter on the lens sometimes help alleviate the amount of have in the image.

Did you know….  starting at the lowest ‘hue’ color is in the bottom RH corner, the next one is in the upper LH corner.  Then it ‘sequentially’ goes from the Left to the Right, next row – Left to Right, and repeating in the rows until it reaches the lowest ‘hue’ color again in the bottom RH corner.

Did I get them all right?… Nah… I messed u…[Read more]

Thank you Bobbie.

Thank you Patrick.

Thank Elin. I’m somewhat always amazes at what they can build, as well as beavers.  Using all those sticks and mud to stop rivers.

I’m sure a fair amount of us may not consider this architecture….

But I’m guessing that the designer and builder may have a different viewpoint regarding his family’s home…

Here it’s waiting its turn to feed the young ones…

As some have suggested about tighter crops, I’ve cropped the two eagle image so that only the bird with the fish is visible.  I’ve used Denoise on it (I was careful not to bring too much detail and sharpness into the image as yours is pretty sharp/contrasty), and then mostly dodging and burning to bring out the eagle and branch.

I will usually…[Read more]

As some have suggested about tighter crops, I’ve cropped the two eagle image so that only the bird with the fish is visible.  I’ve used Denoise on it (I was careful not to bring too much detail and sharpness into the image as yours is pretty sharp/contrasty), and then mostly dodging and burning to bring out the eagle and branch.

I will usually…[Read more]

Not sure if my monitor’s dirty or not, but there appears to be a couple of white spots/dots in the bottom LH corner of the blue square by the brown.

Nice image Lenny!

Tough question Rob. I’ve been away for almost a year now, maybe a little longer. I did start doing a few other new things… not to fill the void, but I wanted to learn them.

For me, and it is like a few have said, take your time, it will come back. And then when you finally have the camera back in your hands, you’ll realize both what you’ve…[Read more]

I like the shot Rob.

With regards to the out-of-focus (OOF) petals, they don’t bother me because it is the parts that are closes to the camera and seem to tie in with the image well. I think because the OOF appears natural and blends well with the rest of the image like we would see in normal photographs.

Have you considered brightening the…[Read more]

The f2.8 really restricted the Depth of Field (DOF). As you can see, it looks like the camera picked up the fly’s back for a focal point and as Dahlia states, the rear eye is in focus.

If you can, use a ‘pinpoint’ focus point and focus on the eye itself. (I know, it’s hard on flies as they don’t stay still for very long).

Also, I would give up…[Read more]

Have you thought about rotating it, or flipping it vertically/horizontally?  Or any combination of that?

I think you may find an additional viewpoint or two that may be pleasing to your eyes as well.

Not sure about others, but my eyes find it a bit more soothing to look at.  As there are 2 different ‘feels’ to this image, I would look at both and see which one feels better to your eye.  Both work well, but each has its own vibe to me.