Critique Submissions

This page contains selected April 2001 submissions from photographers who wish to have their photographs reviewed by the publisher of this site,Michael Reichmann, as well as by other readers on ourDiscussion Forum. 

Pascal Jappy

Pascal Jappy
Aubagne, France 
Pascal.Jappy@hummingbird.com

Shot handheld on 120 Fuji Velvia pushed to 100 with a Fujica 645 folding camera, 75mm lens @F/11. The slide was scanned on a flatbed Epson 1640 scanner at 1600dpi.

The arboretum is located in Godalming (Surrey) in England. The picture was made in August, and most of the arboretum was green and yellow. One tiny sloping patch had red-purple trees in the shade. I had no tripod so handheld the shot. The F/11 aperture was needed to keep as much foreground as possible sharp, and that led to a 1/30s exposure. I had no filter. The picture has not been altered at all after the scan, except for a little unsharp masking and retouching.

Michael’s Critique

What a striking image! Absolutely beautiful. There’s little more that needs be said. It works on every level.

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Dennis McKenzie

Dennis McKenzie
Wasilla, Alaska, USA
djmckenzie@webtv.net
Taken with a Mamiya C33 TLR and 180 or 250 lens, using Provia F100 pushed to 200 iso, using a tripod of course. Situation: While cruising in Prince Williams Sound last year we pulled into Long Bay in Culross Passage to anchor for the night and to shoot this waterfall that I had seen and shot the year before. The falls are a moderate size for Alaska, with many shots within the over all view of the falls. This is one I liked with the contrast of soft looking water and the rich black rocks with some reds and greens here and there. If the photo calls for it I always like to have areas of dark black in it to counterpoint the detail and feel of the image

Michael’s Critique

There’s a lot to like in this photograph but it doesn’t hang together compositionally. The branches top-left are a distraction. Next, the square format is tough to compose for and by its nature it is static. The subject matter must therefore force the eye to flow. In this case there is no compelling center of interest and the large black rock on the right adds too much weight to the center of the image. It feels like it’s about to topple over. 

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David R. Gurtcheff

David R. Gurtcheff
Westmont, NJ USA
gurtch@aol.com
Photo taken on Long Beach Island, Feb 2001

Contax SLR, 24~85 zoom at wide setting. Kodacolor gold 200 scanned with Sprintscan into Photoshop 5.0. Sky and foreground put on separate layers, and levels applied  to each separately. Burn, dodge and saturation tool used throughout image. Edges and corners burned in to simulate the way I would print this in my wet darkroom.

Michael’s Critique

What immediately catches my eye is the monochromatic nature of the image and the subtle bit of fading light on the horizon. The tire tracks add a bit of mystery and the sky is certainly interesting. But I somehow feel as if I’m looking at two separate photographs‚ consisting of the top and bottom halves, as nothing is there to tie them together.

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Butch Hulett

Butch Hulett
Springfield, MO, USA
butchhul@alltel.net

Hasselblad/50mm , Plus X film/normal development

The negative was scanned using a Minolta Multi, then corrected and manipulated in Photoshop 6.0. The final print was produced from Photoshop 6.0 and printed using Jon Cone’s Piezo inkset.

Michael’s Critique

This is image a knockout. I’d love to see a Piezo print in the flesh. The tonalities appear to be gorgeous. The cross in the lower left adds just the right amount of weight to the composition to counterbalance the white clouds, and the few bright stones in the mid-ground do a perfect job of preventing it from becoming too somber. A first rate photograph with the square format perfectly utilized.

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Donald Dixon

Donald Dixon
Wausau, Wisconsin
donauw@dwave.net

Sunset, Big Pine Key, Florida.

Nikon D1 w Nikkor 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VR, Exposure: 1/320 sec – F/5.6 , Focal Len: 400mm

Michael’s Critique

All of us who own long lenses enjoy shooting dramatic sunrises and sunsets over water. Why not? It’s enjoyable and the photographs are often quite lovely. Don has done a great job here and the bird flying so close to the sun lifts this from being a JASSS, (Just Another Sunset Shot). The drama added by dark sky is the other ingredient that makes this photograph stand out.

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Hans Lindkvist 

Hans Lindkvist 
Trollhttan, Sweden. 
hans.lindkvist@telia.com.   This photograph was taken one evening some years ago at a small lake some 40 km north of my hometown. I took almost a whole film of the swan, and he (or she) was not very pleased with me being there. He probably had a nest nearby. I used a Konica T3 with a Vivitar 70-210 zoom lens. The film is Kodak Ektachrome. The photo was scanned with a HP Photosmart S20 and just tweaked a little with curves in Photoshop.

Michael’s Critique

I like this image but it misses for several reasons. The dark area at the lower-left is a distraction. More importantly the swan needs to be brighter. This could have been done with fill-flash or attempted digitally in post processing. As it is I miss both the uninterrupted symmetry and the visible detail that the image cries out for.

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Jonas Gjertsson

Jonas Gjertsson
Syd-Koster
Sweden
jonas.gjertsson@createur.se

Canon F-1, 80-200/4,0L (at 200 and probably 4,0), Kodachrome 64 exposed at 80ASA.

Michael’s Critique

There’s a lot wrong here and I think a bad scan is to blame for some of it. The first thing is, of course, the colour‚ a nasty cyan cast pervades the whole image. This could easily have been fixed. Secondly, there is a lot of vignetting. The Canon 80~200mm f/4 is a very fine lens and can’t be the source, so my guess is a poor scanner was used. Thirdly, the light is boring. What could have been an interesting image is let down by poor tools and having been shot at the wrong time of day. 

It’s important that we keep in mind that all our audience sees is the image that we present‚ be it a 5" JPG on a web site or a 16X20" print on the wall. They never see the idealized memory of the time and locale that we often harbour within us. I don’t mean to sound like a harping mother, but if a photograph is worth showing to others, it’s worth doing so as well as possible, otherwise, why bother?

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Phil Goble

Phil Goble Champaign, Illinois, United States email:philgoble@home.comNikon F100, Nikon 24mm 2.8D lens, Fuji Velvia, f/16 @ 1/8 sec   Having learned the road to the Eureka Dunes in Death Valley was passable, I drove the two hours and was rewarded with pristine dunes (unlike the dunes near Stovepipe Wells).  The only person I saw that day ran a hangglider off the top of the dunes as I was arriving in my car.  I was able to hastily snap a few pictures of him as he decended, but preferred the simplicity of this photograph instead.  It was a great December day, as I scouted the dunes from 11am until sunset in solitude.

Michael’s Critique

I’ve been to Death Valley several times and have always been thwarted by closed roads in my attempts to get to the Eureka Dunes. This photograph nicely captures the sinuous feel of long dunes and interplay of light and shadow. Very nicely done. 

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Gary Beck

Gary Beck Fremont, CAgrb@home.com
  Olympus E-10, 1/160Sec, F4.0
No other processing performed, other than shrink in Photoshop, no additional sharpening or processing performed.

Michael’s Critique

This photograph has recorded what was in front of the camera, but the composition does nothing to treat the eye. The rock and tree are one entity, the green field another and the town in the valley a third. They are not integrated in any way.

Aspiring landscape photographers need to spend time looking at landscape paintings and photographs by masters to try and develop a feel for composition. As I’ve written before, photography is a process ofexclusion, removing everything that doesn’t contribute to a finalcohesive image. If that isn’t possible then the final image isn’t there.

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Barry Hinschen

Barry Hinschen
Sheffield, UK
barryhinschen@hotmail.com

Taken at Alternate Bay, Fiji, at sunset with a Fuji GX617.

Michael’s Critique

I’m always a sucker for a well done panoramic. The sky here is lovely and the foreground has some interest. Frankly though, it needs something more. We all shoot pretty sunsets. But to create an image that communicates something more than just the beauty of a fading day a stronger foreground is needed.  

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Jeffrey Goggin

Jeffrey Goggin
Scottsdale, Arizona USA
audidudi@mindspring.com

This was taken this past February at the Lost Dutchman State Park, located just east of Phoenix, AZ, 10 minutes after sunset. I used a Minolta Autocord and Provia 100F, and the exposure was 4 seconds at f/11. No filters were used and only levels adjustment and minor sharpening were performed using Photoshop 5.5. The colors of the original slide are slightly warmer still than those shown here and the image appears slightly sharper as well but this is the best I can do with my vintage Microtek scanner.  

I like the colors and especially the sky but I’m not totally satisfied with the composition and don’t know what it is about it that bothers me, hence the reason I’ve submitted it for critique. Any comments will be greatly appreciated.

Michael’s Critique

There’s a soft mystery to the light and therefore the subject matter, and I like it. But the image fails to be compelling. There are several centers of interest, but the use of the square format has created a static composition‚ as Jeff himself points out. I’m not sure how to correct it at this point. 

The square can be a very satisfying format but it requires much more careful attention to the rules of composition than does the traditional rectangle.

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Miles Hecker

Miles Hecker
Casper, Wyoming
mhecker@acad.cc.whecn.edu

Contax Aria 35-70mm zoom, Fuji Velvia, Polaroid 4000 scanner. Curves command used to enhance contrast.

Taken near Moran Junction Wyoming.

Early spring in the high country of the Rocky Mountains is different than spring at lower elevations. Colors tend to be more more yellow than green. The lack of green and lingering snow make photographic composition a challenge. On this day the golden color of the willows was beginning to deepen as temperatures climbed above freezing. That color and positional relationships between several roadside Aspen caught my eye. After awhile I noticed a pattern. The Aspen seemed to dance into the distance, much like the water carrying brooms in Disney’s Fantasia. I took a few quick shots not knowing if I could record what I saw on film. Luckily, the shot worked.

Michael’s Critique

Overall I find Miles’ photograph very appealing. It works well on almost every level. I sayalmostbecause the two foreground trees are somewhat disconcerting‚ the way they are framed almost equidistantly from the edges of the edges of the frame. 

As I look at the photograph I find my eye jumping from one side to the other, not being able to find a place to rest or a path to follow. It would be instructive to be able to see some variations on this composition where there was, say, just one foreground tree, or where one of the two was further to the side of the frame.

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Larry Adkins

Larry Adkins Tustin, California  larryadkins2@msn.com  This photograph was taken at the Zzyzx Desert Studies Center, an educational oasis in the Mojave desert. You are looking across Soda Springs (the water) and Soda Dry Lake (the white expanse) to the town of Baker, California (the colored lights) situated on the highway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. I have taken many pictures at this center, but this one was taken on a very atypical wet and cloudy day at dusk in February of this year.  The camera was a Nikon 6006 with Kodak Max 400 film.  There is no computer manipulation here other than contrast optimization.

Michael’s Critique

One of the classic rules of composition is to never let the horizon line run through the middle of the frame. Larry has broken this rule and should be punished (joke); except that the reflection adds balance, and the tips of the reeds at the bottom of the frame further modify the frame. Overall it’s a successful photograph.

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Ken Newcombe 

Ken Newcombe  
Dundas, Ontario, Canada
kennewcombe@geocities.com

White Tail Deer feeding; Shot at Dundas, Ontario, Canada

Konica T3, Hexanon 50mm macro , Kodachrome 25 , remote camera and dual flash. This was a remote camera setup with dual flash. Shot on a cold winter night.

Michael’s Critique

There’s appeal to this photograph but it’s ultimately let down by two things. Firstly, the use of a single flash from an oblique angle makes the light simply too harsh. (Ken indicates that a second flash was used, but I don’t see its contribution). Secondly, I find not being able to see the deer’s mouth disconcerting. The image is too obscure in a number of ways to be really successful.

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Lynn Morehead

Lynn Morehead
Englewood, CO 
mtim20@qwest.net

Kodak VS, Canon A2, exposure data unrecorded

This shot was taken in Moab, Utah in mid March. We had spent four days chasing the light. We never quite got the perfect light except for a few fleeting moments the last evening we were there. The colors and quality of light were amazing.

Michael’s Critique

People who have never done photography anywhere on the Colorado Plateau find it hard to believe that the colours that they see in photographs from the region are real. Lynn’s image nicely captures the remarkable quality of the light and the red sandstone. If it wasn’t though for the small break in the clouds above the ridge I’d be less complimentary, but with it the image holds up well.

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Collin Orthner

Collin Orthner Red Deer, Canadacorthner@home.com  Nikon F100, 20mm f/2.8 Approx. 12 seconds at f/2.8 Fuji NHGII 800   This was the most spectacular show of Aurora Borealis I have ever witnessed. This image was made on March 30, 2001 at about 11:45 PM looking over the lights of Red Deer. The moon is visible near right center. I am guessing at the exposure because I was shooting like mad for about 45 minutes with three cameras and trying to take in the show at the same time. At one point I simply laid on my back and watched for about 5 minutes. It was truly a magical experience which this or probably any other photograph cannot convey. 

Michael’s Critique

Collin’s aurora photograph is quite something. The intensity of the reds is remarkable and the inclusion of the city lights adds needed perspective. Nicely done.

This year sees a maximum of the 11 year solar cycle and there have been many intense aurora displays, some this year as far south as Colorado. I’m looking forward to doing more aurora photography myself when I go back to my place summer place in northern Ontario this June.

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Nick Thomas

Nick Thomas
Cardiff
Wales, UK
nick.thomas3@virgin.net
The image was assembled from three frames taken using a Canon Powershot S20 digital camera. Frames were merged in Photoshop 5.5 using layer masks and then a gaussian blur overlay added and faded down to recreate the feeling of the soft early morning light. The photograph was taken in late february this year on a climbing and walking trip to Scotland. The three shots that make up the image were grabbed quickly on the way to Glencoe. Its very hard on a day like this to decide whether to hang around and take photos or rush off up a mountain, so I ended up doing a bit of both that day.   For a larger version of the same image and some more landscapes from Scotland and elsewhere, visit my web site Land & Sky at;http://freespace.virgin.net/nick.thomas3/index.htm

Michael’s Critique

Nick’s photograph nicely shows that expensive and bulky equipment isn’t necessary to accomplish good landscape work. A point-and-shoot digital is all that was used here, and if you visit his site link above you’ll see more fascinating panoramic photographs taken with this camera and stitching technique.

The image itself has some flaws. The foreground bush at left is a distraction and the snow on the mountain on the right is burned out.

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Philip Harle

Philip Harle
London, England
sunjammer@aol.com

Minolta 600si, Minolta 50mm f1.4 @ f8, on tripod. Fuji Velvia.  Scanned by
Kodak Photo CD service, colour balance tweaked in Photoshop 5LE.  

This was taken at the Pinnacles Desert in Western Australia.  I got there just before sunrise (about 4am) and kept photographing until the hoardes of tourists started arriving at 6am, by which time the pinnacles were transformed into a bright yellow and the sky to a deep blue. You can see some of my other images from that day at my website:www.virtualtraveller.org

Michael’s Critique

This photograph is well composed, and the subject matter fascinating, but it misses because the contrast range is simply too great. Possibly a higher quality scan would capture some detail in the shadows and highlights, but as it stands it’s simply too harsh.

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Alan Kerr

Alan Kerr Queenstown New Zealand Southern Lights Photographyhttp://www.Minoltians.wsthe gallery dedicated to Minolta Photographers
T aken in the Lindis Pass in the South Island of New Zealand with a Maxxum 700si on Velvia.

Michael’s Critique

An impressive and enjoyable image. The dappled light on the hills creates a soft warm feeling even though the image consists solely of greens and blues. Well seen and nicely executed.

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Clayton Mansnerus

Clayton Mansnerus
Santa Cruz, CA. USA
clayton@cruzio.com
http://members.cruzio.com/~clayton

Pentax K-1000 35 mm camera, Sigma 24 mm f2.8 lens, approximately f16 at 1/8 sec. with tripod, Fuji Provia-F 100 film

A thick patch of clovers grows beside a small creek in the lush forest of the Santa Lucia Mountains in Central California. This creek is one of many beautiful creeks and rivers that flow briskly out of the Santa Lucia near Big Sur. This photo was taken on a cloudy Winter day and the overcast sky provided near perfect lighting for photography. Photo taken in February, 2000.

Michael’s Critique

A nicely executed photograph of a classic subject type. I’d have taken it myself, (where I live doesn’t look like this is February), but I have to say that like the red rock canyons of the southwest that I enjoy so much, such fare is becoming a bit of a clichÈ. 

I think as landscape photographers we all need to stretch ourselves a bit more to uncover new subject matter seen in new ways.

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Erik H. Pronske

Erik H. Pronske, M.D.
epronske@austin.rr.com

Yucca cactus taken at sunset at Guadelupe Mountain National Park in west Texas in March.

Minolta Maxxum 9, Tokina 28-80/2.8 at about 28 mm , e xposure about 1/30 sec at f/8 , Kodak Ektachrome VS

Michael’s Critique

This is a graphically strong image that nicely captures the light of sunset and the character of the Yucca plant. It might have been enhanced by showing a bit more of the mountains in the background as silhouettes. As it is, it feel a bit constricted at the bottom of frame.

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Andy Biggs

Andy Biggs
San Francisco Bay Area, CA,USA
biggs@entech.com

Nikon D1, Nikkor 18-35 lens. 

This picture was taken in Grand Stairacse-Escalante at dusk, as my wife and I were driving to Colorado on vacation. Unfortunately, my microdrive was almost filled up, and all I could get off was 2 exposures taken at the ‘jpg fine’ setting. I normally shoot in RAW mode (NEF), but space was limited. The dynamic range would have been better. Minor levels and saturation adjustment.

Michael’s Critique

I like this image, but it isn’t completely successful. The concept of juxtaposing the cloud with the cliff works nicely, but the top of the frame is too dark. A bit of a shift to the left would also have moved the main subjects slightly off center and made for a more dynamic composition.

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Patrick O’Neill

Patrick O’Neill
Fort Worth Texas
Patrick@LightCaptureStudio.com

ElanIIE Canon EF 20-35 USM , 1/8 F/11 Manual, Velvia , Tiffin "p" XL 2stop GND , Tripod & MLU , 10% crop off the right

Taken not far from Quail Ridge in Sedona, AZ

Michael’s Critique

A strong image, well seen. I’d be tempted to crop the right of frame even more though as both the ridge line and the cactus seem to peter-out, detracting from the tightness of the composition.

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G¸nter Haika

G¸nter Haika
Vienna, Austria
haika@gmx.at
http://haika.de.vu

Canon A1, 17mm, tripod. T-Max 100. Arches N.P., July 1988

Some climbing was necessary to get to this "double arch" location. When I revisited Arches recently, I wanted to re-shoot this scene in MF, but could not find the spot again.

Michael’s Critique

G¸nter was right to want to go back with medium format. This is an appealing subject, well composed, but it cries out for the detail, texture and micro-contrast which 35mm just can’t provide.

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Horst R ‚œdding

Horst R ‚œdding
240 M ‚œdling
Austria
h.roedding@kabsi.at

Hasselblad 205 TCC Planar 2,0/110mm Kodak GPX 220 . Scan: Imacon Flextight Photo, Photoshop 5,5

If I remember right, it was in the south of Utah, on the way from Glen Canyon to Blanding. There was about three thunderstorms around me and the light changes every five minutes. I never saw anything like this. I changed the colour a little bit into more red, like I did it in the  darkroom, but not more.

Michael’s Critique

Wonderfully dramatic. The large expanse of black sky creates tremendous mystery and raises this photograph above the pack. Also scary. Beautiful though.

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David Magahy 

David Magahy 
Gold Coast, Australia
david@therightresult.com.au

Canon EOS3, 28ñ70mm 2.8L at the 28 end.ƒ¼/22 at about half a second exposure using Provia 100F. I think I used a polariser and a 81B warm up filter, and of course, a tripod. I focused on the Banksia (Bottlebrush) flower on the bottom left and let the depth of field do the rest. It is taken from South Nobby hill looking north up the Gold Coast towards the Surfers Paradise skyline. Taken mid-winter 2000 at dawn.

Michael’s Critique

The shapes of the land and water masses and warm light make this an interesting image. The foreground flowers are a bit lost though with the earthen cliff above them taking too much attention. I’m not sure how best it could be re-framed though.

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Steve Bromley

Steve Bromley
Austin, TX USA
Sbrom@austin.rr.com

Canon Elan II, Canon 17-35L lens at 30mm, f8. Kodak E100VS film. Scanned with HP Photosmart, then adjusted via layers & curves in Photoshop 5.5 to match the original. Yosemite National Park, El Capitan. My first trip to Yosemite. Early November morning after the first snow of the season. What a treat!

Michael’s Critique

A classic scene, nicely captured. My only observation is that the shot might have benefited from the use of a split neutral density filter to tone down the sky a bit.

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Rick Popham

Rick Popham Torrington, CT  USA rickio@esslink.com  Nikon F2; 24mm/2.8;  Fuji Velvia   On a trip west a few years ago I camped for the night outside the Devil’s Tower National Monument.  A terrific thunderstorm battered the campground during the night, and I rose before dawn to find the area blanketed in a heavy mist.  I made my way through the wet vegetation to the Belle Fourche River, and waited for sunrise.  As the sun rose, the red cliffs along the river lit up and Devil’s Tower glowed behind the lifting mist.

Michael’s Critique

A nicely seen and well captured image. The mist surrounding the tower is beautiful. The reflection is strong as well, but I find the vegetation at left distracting. For this reason, and assuming that standing in the river wasn’t an option, I’d have been tempted to use a longer lens and crop-out most of the bottom half of the frame.

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Fred Quod

Fred Quod
Auckland, New Zealand
fquod@hotmail.com

Vaucluse coastline at dawn, Australia, December 2001.

Canon D30 with 28-105 USM zoom.

Michael’s Critique

A lovely location and dramatic sky. I find the foreground distracting though and would have been tempted to step a bit closer to the edge and cropped it out‚ allowing the receding cliff to dominate the lower frame.

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Vincent Soden

 

Vincent Soden
London, UK
vince_soden@hotmail.com

A late afternoon sunshower at Galway, Ireland on holidays a couple of years ago. The combination of the gloomy bay and the burst of sunshine caught my eye. Camera was Nikon F4 with 28-85 AF Nikkor, on tripod.

Michael’s Critique

I like this image a great deal. But, two things struck me immediately‚ the top cloud level is a distraction because it makes the whole image look un-level, and as submitted the image is too dark.

I’ve taken the liberty of correcting these two issue so that it can be better seen. For some reason the shot is somewhat splotchy as well, but this may be the result of a poor scan. Otherwise a strong landscape composition, well seen.

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Ralph Gyoery

Ralph Gyoery
Clapham Junction, England
ralph_teflon_gyoery@hotmail.com

I took this image on my EOS3 somewhere on the coast of Spain. It was about an hour after dawn, as the sun evaporated the last of the early morning mist. Scanned into Photoshop and sharpened.

Michael’s Critique

The classic "S" curve at work. The warm saturated colours and appealing composition make this a striking entry. Very exotic. I wouldn’t change a thing.

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