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Wonderful shot Elin!

I would crop out the bottom 2/3’s of the bottle as well (just below the lable).  This places more visual weight on the plant.  You could even crop the bottle higher if you wished.

When it comes to cropping – and especially with images such as this one with no definitive horizontal or vertical line – I will often experiment with ‘transform’ in LR as I’m cropping.

As I try a crop, I’ll move it around slightly in the image for a placement that suits my eyes, as well as… experiment with rotating the image 90 degrees either…[Read more]

Thank you Tersha.  There is a few inches of loose dirt above the hard ground which helps minimalize rider injuries when they are bucked off the animals.

Thank you Federica.

Thank you Dahlia.

I know what you mean Steve.  It’s even worse when I get a ‘close call’.  I have a couple where the bull pushes/throws a rider a couple of feet.  It happens very fast and I think most of the audience in attendance don’t ever realize how close the rider came to serious injury.

Believe it or not, he’s only 18 years old.  His family own the company that provides rodeos with their animals for the events.  Bull riding, junior bull riding, calf roping, etc.

I sent the images to his mother for him.

I have always been in awe to your dedication of perfection in all aspects of your photography David.  Congratulations!! It’s well deserved!

Thank you Jim.

The bars are the top of the roof top where the performance was to be held.  The green is a projection on a cement wall.  But you’re right, it would be an easy clone.

The white, if memory serves me correctly, is a wedding veil as I believe the projected images shows friends at her staggette.  She is married in the 2nd half of th…[Read more]

Thank you Graham.

Always great to ready your thoughts Duncan. Thank your!

Thank you Lenny.

Like the rest, I think the images (both the B&W and Colour) are very interesting and like them both.

I only have a minor comment and am some what surprised they don’t both others…  I would clone out the two (2) lines of high lights ‘on the frame’ in front of the face as I find they draw my eyes away from the main image.

Thank you for the kind words Dahlia, Federico and Patrick!

That definitely draws the viewers to the faces.  Thanx Erik!

Thank you Steve.

That looks really good Jasenka. Thank you!