Love the light, great job!! Looks like some torture chamber, maybe that scene in Lethal Weapon with Mel Gibson hanging by his hands... I do think you could crop off the bottom just above the block holding up the pole. That bright area in the lower left draws the eye a bit.

Nice job with the exposure on this one - looks like it might have been a challening shot! The colors are good, but I would love to see this as a black and white.

Cheers,
Jon

Thanks for the suggestion, I will have to give it a try.

Exposure is amazing. I agree with Beamer about the Mel Gibson. I have been trying to get this effect myself. Nice job.

Different is good. The tones are amazing in that waterfall. I find this image extraordinary.

I've been out of town and came back to some great comments, many thanks to you all. Beamer, this is Upper Mesa Falls outside of Island Park, Idaho. Not sure where you live, but definitely check it out if you're ever in those parts. There is also the very stunning Lower Mesa Falls just down the road. Actually, the whole scenic byway they're located on is fantastic...let me know if you want a .kmz file for Google Earth. :-)

Again, thanks for the input everyone.
CR

While you did a great job with the long exposure, I have to agree with grahambo.

I feel like a bird soaring higher to view the beauty below...

Thank you Kenergy, much appreciated.

@LadyWings, thanks for your feedback as well. It's good to get input from a variety of angles, as well as photographs.

Very nice.
I agree with dropping the contrast on the weeds as your eye would no longer be drawn to that corner!
the textures are amazing with wonderful detail and contrast!

Definitely I understand the contrast is too high on the weeds. Thank you all, I did not notice this.

Great old rusty thing.

Thank you to everyone who voted for this pic ! :-)

Superb ! !
Love it ! !

A great pet portrait.Great composition, and the lighting is well done

Nothing to mension, very adorable picture..

very well done...what a great model too

great capture. i'm shure it wasn't easy, right?!

What can I say.....:-)))) So funny ! And the expression is superb !

Nice colors, texture and PoV. Not sure if it's birds flying or what, but there's something in the left side of the sky, that's very distracting. I'd also like to see a bit more color in the trees, as they appear gray to me.

I love wide angle shots! This one particularly makes me happy. :)

.moses.

I like the perspective and the very saturated colors. The sky is too dark for me (almost black), did you use a circular polariser ?
The black spots are disturbing me indeed, did you removed something here ?

good potential shoot, all the element are here, but the quality of the picture are not really good and we can see some photoshop touch up.

Did you add this sky? I think the building is a fantastic subject and I'd love to see more.
It seems the perspective is a bit strange, and the sky is spotted and distorted.

i like the feel that at first glance the bench seems to be randomly located in the field

i think this is a wonderful photo! nicely done! possibly a different angle would also be great!

Thank you all for your wonderful words. I feel very good about them!

I love this shot... I just really really want to sit there. I also love the composition. The fact that the bench hides some of the scenery I don't mind so much. It tells me that I'm not there. In order to enjoy that scenery, I must sit down in that lovely bench.

What a wonderful and serene photo - great colors and comp. Thanks for sharing!

No HDR here... I've played with HDR, but I've not had any luck with it, yet. I'll check to see if I have a shot with a higher camera angle, and post it if I do.

great shot, i just might like to see it in black and white with a high contrast level, i think that would make the graffiti and the grasses really pop and make a cool atmosphere

I actually did shoot this in black and white as well, but liked the color better. I'll put up another black and white bridge for you though.

great shot

Super job with the comp. and color - very nice work!

I like the composition and DoF here, but I wish everything was a bit sharper.

Huh? My only comment would be to move the area of sharp focus back about an inch to really pull you to the eyes, let the nose go soft but keep the eyes in focus.

Heh - another example that critiques are just personal preference... I like the shot just they way you've done it myself. I had to click on this one out of all the pics currently in the critique section; definitely a fav. Nice job.

First, let me say I like it a lot. This looks like a spur of the moment photo to me, I totally understand you may not have had all the control you wanted at the time.

On the focus issue, I'm with Beamer - the eyes should be sharper than the nose.

Actually, there's something more going on there. It's like the focus catches most of the right eye, but not the lashes, and just the bag line under the left.

Argh! Now that I've looked at it too closely it's bothering my appreciation of the rest of the photo.

Love this picture overall..I think the focus would have been better on the eye/s. I am not sure the photo fits the category either...but my apologies if the child indeed took the picture.

this is a great perspective, but the focus bothers me...it's really sharp where those two holes are but not at the beginning of the frame and not at the end of the bridge. the fuzzy tree is tantalizing!

You would have to, perhaps, take it other side to have a direction of reading since the left towards the line. Concerning the depth of field, a more important opening (for example) would have made it possible to determine your photography more. Despite everything, a will to build and an attempt to be improved. With the next one.

I love your POV here, but I wish more of the bridge were in focus. I might also soften or blur the trees and sky, to improve the DOF a bit.

This works for me. Beautiful textures in the foreground - thanks for sharing.

dear lasiate, i cannot speak french (neither english), i think you want to see more details in this picture, is that right? is somebody here can help me?
"salamat" for your comment

/aj

lasiate said that he/she would like more details on the woman's face. She/He's wondering wheter whether the woman on the photograph is praying.

Since this photograph is in the Silhouettes topic, I don't think that's quite proper.
The range of dark tones should be reduced to black, so details on the woman's forehead and neck can't be seen anymore.
(Not sure whether it is to be said like this. I'm German)

Bastian, thanks a lot for your help.
yes, i agree with you, i think i will make those area darker.

She is not praying, i took this picture inside a small airplane cabin, with my 50mm, that's the best that i can get, because i cannot move at all.

Thanks a lot to you all.

If you make the face darker, this will be a wonderful example of a silouette.

Lovely...I imagine the woman going to a new life and has gotten on a plane to catch up with it...hope alive but frightened all the same...