It would be useful to have something in the picture to help a viewer grasp scale. Perhaps an evil-doer staked out in the sun near the anthill? -- Zin

Hi Roel,I think that this photo has a lot of potential. I realize that it's the weather but the photo looks flat. I think some added clarity and/or local contrast enhancement would work.Bill Turner

Interesting geometry is available here.I think a stronger image could be made from the right-hand 55% of the frame. There, horizontal-vertical elements are interestingly interspersed. These are mostly in the vehicles, woman, and buildings, underpinned by the hatchwork of cobblestones (which, if more dilineated, would enhance the art).Engaging relief from the insistent repetition of horizontal-vertical is supplied by the form of the woman and the interesting triangle comprising her, her bag, and her shadow. And so, the interesting geometry is a triangle superimposed on a field of box-lines.The stuff on the left side of the illustration is distracting static. -- Zin

I grabbed this shot with a Canon compact quite some time ago - walking along a bridge which goes past the oldest wine bar in London. It is a 1 sec exposure taken leaning against a railing, as I also wanted to try and keep the ISO down to acceptable level, and thought a bit of movement might add to the atmosphere. I keep coming back to it as one of my better shots because I think it tells a story and I think (apart from the mobile phone!) it has a timeless and almost film-like look - be interested to see what others think....Cheers,Jon -- http://jonschick.smugmug.com/

I think Zindanfel makes a very useful statement with changing the format and cut the garbage site, so I made two new examples...-one with much stronger colour treatment on grey as grey is always a friend of colours -and one in Black and white,I prefer the colour one myself as that was my intented first ideaI know Gauguin play way more with colour levels but it was not intended to copy the painter but playing with colour as he did is applicable in many styles.Zin thanks this will be the final versioncolourB&W"Old oneLou

Ohh John, good title and good shot. Great capture I must smile when I saw it.Lou-Jon Schickwrote:I grabbed this shot with a Canon compact quite some time ago - walking along a bridge which goes past the oldest wine bar in London. It is a 1 sec exposure taken leaning against a railing, as I also wanted to try and keep the ISO down to acceptable level, and thought a bit of movement might add to the atmosphere. I keep coming back to it as one of my better shots because I think it tells a story and I think (apart from the mobile phone!) it has a timeless and almost film-like look - be interested to see what others think....Cheers,Jon -- http://jonschick.smugmug.com/

Other a than tight crop and maybe a highlight recovery, I would not change much.The balance of colors, yellow and green, light and shadows and the nice verticals hold the shot.Well done! -- BjornBudd was my computer games alter ego... My name is João Afonso Ferreira, I'm from Portugal. PhotoBlog:http://www.codaque.blogspot.com Blog:http://www.atjaf.blogspot.com(in Portuguese)

Nice shot - I like it because I've tried on a number of occasions to do something similar and failed to pull it off! I think there's a lightness to yours that I've failed to get. -- http://jonschick.smugmug.com/

I like the colours and the end of the day feeling about this one but can't quite make my mind up about a couple of things. First is that on my screen, it's quite blurred - I assume intentionally but somehow it bothers me that there isn't any area that appears sharp. The second thing is the expanse of blue sky to the top, and the tree/tarmac to the left - I'm wondering how things would look if some of the top and left were cropped away from the image. That said, I still like the feeling that it has evoked - I might have to come back and look again!Jon -- http://jonschick.smugmug.com/

Really lilke this picture and the wonderful facial expression - but not in love with the vignetting or that the face is in the middle of a lot of dark surroundings. I'd be tempted to focus more on the face, possilbly in a landscape rather than portrait format, and cut off a lot of the shadow areas to the top and bottom of the image. However, I'd still be pretty pleased with the photograph just the way it is!

I agree - and a photograph which poses some uncomfortable questions -- http://jonschick.smugmug.com/

I like the feeling of isolation that this shot provides - three people looking out over the city and yet it all seems rather desolate. For that reason, I think the expanse of cloudy sky adds to the mood of the image, although wonder whether a 3:2 rather than 4:3 crop may lighten things a little. Other than that, agree with Bill T's suggestion of a little processing to add a touch more vibrance, but not too much otherwise the mood of the image would be destroyed.Jon

Theme: composition of several hints of summerIn the last week's summer image I dont want to change the atribute "several elements in it ( ship, sitting person, water, walking persons, green, brightness )". Sorry, i know that in dpreview is some preference of images with only 1 element (+Background) in it, but this is definately not the purpose of this image.SLOtographerwrote:This photo makes me think of a backwards C. There is the foreground, the ship, and a far shore that builds the top of the image. It makes me look around counterclockwise. I also find there is a big space in the middle. I enjoy the theme (and am looking forward to summer myself!)!So I made several attempts to reduce the water, WHAT DO THE READERS THINK IS THE BEST ?A: cutting at a waved line and shifted the lower part up. click 2 times to enlage to max.B: A cut line and cutting out a strip. I will improve the blackness of the line if this picture would be selected: click 2 times to enlage to max.C: resize the middle part via 1:2 compression of the middle part only. click 2 times to enlage to max.I unfortionately do not have the content-aware image resize tool, but readers can try themselves with the ORIG:As you see, i did also some contrast increasement in the 3 processed images ( how was that ? )thanks Mr.NoFlash

Greg (I'm going out on a limb and assuming thats your name), When I look at this two things come to mind,First great light and great framing. I love how it forces one to focus on the sky. I also like that it has other subtleties that the viewer can examine, especially the small details like having some information left in the fence's silouette. I think that helps to hold the viewers attention and makes them look at the image longer.I also like the balance between the natural and man-made objects that occurs by having the windmill and the tree in the sceen in the scene together.The one criticism I have is that the area with the windmill and the tree looks to busy. I think with silouettes having overlap makes things too busy, because they get lost in eachother. I think that it would have worked better if you could have separated them, maybe one on each side of the image. This might have been possible by moving further to the viewers right to take the shot? I'm not sure and that may have taken the sun out the image so it may not have been possible but if I could play god in this one and move things around I would place the windmill on the extreme right of the image and the tree on the extreme left (or vice-versa) to balance it even more and eliminate the overlap.Still a great image though! -- Chris

I'm going to go against what everyone else has said about the crop. To me this image works because it combines structure (man made) with the natural. Everything structural or man made in the image is all very geometric. The floor is covered in square tiles, the bottom of the barriers is repeated rectangles and the glass is divided into more rectangles.This all contrasts with the more natural parts of the image, the sky and the people, both of which are softer and more round which is why this image works for me (although I think you have more exciting images from the museum, so I think this one was actually an interesting choice for the C&C).So my suggestion would be to crop it square with the people almost touching the right edge of the image. I don't know why but square crops always seems to emphasize shape and geometry more than all the other crops for me, and I think it would do this in this image as well. If it does I feel it would make the sky and the people in the image stand out even more.

3 elements here: the sun, the tree, the windmill - at least 2 should be farer away from each other. you cannot move the tree from the winmill, but perhaps you could have "moved" the sun - just my opinion -- cheersMr.NoFlash

LouHollandwrote:Shopping girl | Gauguin like treatmenti like all of it very much.better than the two other examples you showed 1 post above.i am a bit thinking "how did he do this" -it seems for me that there had to be some sun becauuse of the shadow ? on the other hand the other objects havve no shadow... hmmm..cheers

great connection of a reading person and the landscape. perfect. the only thing i crritisize: why didnt you include it bigger. also it would be nice to add the cam lens aperture and focal lentht used ( because this is a photography forum ) -- cheersMr.NoFlashI am highly invested in m4/3 without having a single m4/3 product, because 3/4 of my lenses and all my flashes work perfect on m4/3

i like it, its not the usual view of a flower, and because that, its creative.could be part of a flower series, all from the back -- cheersMr.NoFlashI am highly invested in m4/3 without having a single m4/3 product, because 3/4 of my lenses and all my flashes work perfect on m4/3