No no-- the first image is the best because it balances color, light, and subject perfectly. It's got it all. Seriously, it's award winning!
Second place goes to the cactus, third place is the ladles... though I kinda hunger for a different crop.
The doves are also AWESOME, but the picture has too much extra noise and too many levels and distractions for me. Maybe consider a crop?
And, lest you think I'm just a big daroga compliment flood with no discernment, I'll say that those are the only four I like. Piano feels typical and the lighting/focus choice doesn't rev my motor, the two miniature shots feel like great ideas that never found the perfect shot, the human pics seem rich in personal impact but not for a stranger, and the black+white bus seems to be trying to picture too much at once, i.e. distracting.
They are all great source materials, and I imagine some PS work fiddling with levels and crop might produce something that turned me on more.
There, see? I can say mean things too! *grin* I'm an opinionated bastard.
Before printing the first image, I might shift the levels just a little bit or brighten... I wouldn't want the details in the tracks to get lost because of a too-dark print. The image needs "just the right amount of light", and that's challenging... similarly, I would experiment with darkening/re-leveling the cactus shot.
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the first image is the best because it balances color, light, and subject perfectly. It's got it all. Seriously, it's award winning!
Second place goes to the cactus,
third place is the ladles... though I kinda hunger for a different crop.
The doves are also AWESOME, but the picture has too much extra noise and too many levels and distractions for me. Maybe consider a crop?
And, lest you think I'm just a big daroga compliment flood with no discernment, I'll say that those are the only four I like. Piano feels typical and the lighting/focus choice doesn't rev my motor, the two miniature shots feel like great ideas that never found the perfect shot, the human pics seem rich in personal impact but not for a stranger, and the black+white bus seems to be trying to picture too much at once, i.e. distracting.
They are all great source materials, and I imagine some PS work fiddling with levels and crop might produce something that turned me on more.
There, see? I can say mean things too! *grin* I'm an opinionated bastard.
Before printing the first image, I might shift the levels just a little bit or brighten... I wouldn't want the details in the tracks to get lost because of a too-dark print. The image needs "just the right amount of light", and that's challenging... similarly, I would experiment with darkening/re-leveling the cactus shot.
All just my opinions, of course...
-d