rennisk

I like the blur of the water cascade. Composition is nice that you got the meandering stream path going from the right to the left.

My suggested improvements are:

– upper 1/2 seems a little overexposed. You may be able adjust this in LR or PS using a density filter.

– might want crop a bit more off the right side since it’s a little bit…[Read more]

Hey, well – different strokes, etc.

Wow! You are a talented studio shooter. Keep it up. Nothing to add as a far as suggestions beyond what the others have said.

Keep it up – you have a bright future!

I would have liked to see a slower shutter speed to blur the falls a bit. It’s a falls/cascade type subject so my tastes is to blur cascades.

This is a slippery slope – pardon the pun – as you can go too slow and get a sloppy waterfalls. I like to take shots using Manual with different shutter speeds – .5 seconds to multi-second – and see what…[Read more]

Thanks for the kind words. it was a great trip that I hope to do again someday. After I win the lottery, of course.

Thanks @raviputcha – I can address the tilt and removed a bit of the foreground, but as we were in a game park, there wasn’t much I could do about the height of the camera. :o)

@admin: be careful what you ask for. See: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rennisk/sets/72157636171642365/ for some other wildlife shots taken in Tanzania.

I personally LOVE HDR but it can get out of control. For shots like this – where there’s a lot of contrast – I have been using Photoshop’s HDR merge capability rather than the likes of Photomatrix. I’m not sure what exposure range you used, but -2, 0, +2 seems to be good.

The advantage I’m finding in Photoshop HDR is that you natural looking…[Read more]

Interesting – I hadn’t notice that before. I don’t see it on the original, so it may be something that happened through the other postprocessing I did. However, I’ll try the adobeRGB).

thanks

It’s a different animal portrait, but I like it. One thing to try is to lighten the right eye (at least the left portion) a little as it’s falling into the shadow and it’s a dominant component of the subject.

Interesting abstract. My initial reaction in looking at the larger version is that the whites are too bright such that I can’t appreciate the full composition (especially the columns).

Nice photo – some motion blur (as mentioned). I think you could greatly improve it using a more vertical crop, lobbing off the “cabbage” thing on the right, a bit off the top, and a wee bit off the left, such that the flower bloom is the in the upper right rule-of-thirds line intersection (or there about). Then you may need to darken the bright…[Read more]

Background is too bright and washes out the lip print. Fool around with the contrast & use LR ND filters to help.

The composition is nice – looks like a well staged vacation photo (versus a snapshot), but the hard lesson to learn is that you really have to pause and taken the complete image – I think you would have seen the Sandals sign if you had. That’s the most distracting thing about the photo.

It is a little underexposed (as mentioned earlier);…[Read more]

I personally like the composition – nice color & nice bokeh. Due to the high ISO & her complexion, I might suggest doing some skin softening. Not sure what tools you use, but I use NIK Color Efex Pro and the “Dynamic Skin Softener” on most model shots. Your shot has very nice sharp eyes in it and I think there’s a way you can retain this in Color…[Read more]

Sorry, but I had to repost the re-cropped image due to some quirk on Flickr. The new link to the re-cropped version is:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rennisk/10027154215/

The original link is the same, but will post it here for continuity.

Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback thus far.. Appreciated.

Agree with @fredf – a GND might do the trick on this. Maybe cropping down a bit from the top as well. The leading lines & slow shutter speed produce an excellent composition.