Here's one from last week. . . Flowers are at their peak at this elevation, next week boohoooooooo, they're gone. . .

Come on, nobody wants to take a crack at this shot? Blast away. . .

LOL, Tony...I did this earlier and the session timed out on me.

Composition/use of frame space - 5 - This is just great, Tony.

Colors/White Balance - 3 - Very rich, saturated colors on the foreground. The mountain top appears to be very hazy. As a result, this image almost appears to be two separate photographs composited upon each other given the rich, bright foreground and washed out mountains.

Exposure - 4 - Looks like you hit this one pretty well. I would go with a 5, but as I was mentioning earlier, the background and foreground appear to be not perfectly in balance.

Creative use of Aperture/Shutter - 4 - You did a fine job on this. I am not sure what, if anything, you could have done differently to get the desired effect.

Perspective - 5 - I really like the use of the wide angle perspective distortion that I believe that I am seeing in this photograph. It reminds me very much of the images that were done of the poppies. i.e. it follows a theme of pronounced foreground and less prominent background.

Creativity - 5- this is a very creatively done photo, with the foreground being so bold and pronounced and the background mountainscape seemingly less important.

Emotion - 4 - This is a very pretty photograph and is creatively done.

Forethought/Visualization - 4 - Very well done.

Post processing - 4 - I wonder if we can do something with the mountains. The foreground is absolutely perfect.

Tony, I missed this one. Lovely as it is I thought I would pump up the saturation and contrast a bit. The design is great, as you usually do. I just felt this one lacked in the depth.



What do you think?

thanks guys!

there is a lot of haze so that does come through. there really is no distortion, it is the flowers leaning in that way, take a loot the outer edges and the background near the edges it's straight. I just was lucky to find the flowers in this pattern.

the extra saturation is nice, it makes the shot look more like one than two, as james points out.

Thanks again, I 'm going to print this one at 40" and see how it comes out. . .

Tony

Hey Tony,

What I am seeing is not lens distortion, but perspective distortion. i.e. it has to do with the distance of you and your lens to the foreground. It makes the objects up front look out of proportion to the rest of the scene. I am not saying it is bad, either. In this case, it works.

James

ahhhh, I get it. james, again, thanks for your thoughts. . .

Tony

I love the shot.

Can you tell me how you get the black frame as I can't see to figure it out but would like to add it to some of my images.

Lloyd

Wonderful image. I love PeggySue's changes.