Everything beautiful

The first was definitely my favorite; it's just got soft colors and looks really pretty. The ones with the daffodils have a light that's almost too saturated, and the ones with the trees just didn't have the best angles. All the same, these were still pretty nice.

Awesome!

#1: (close up of tree) I love the angle on this one. Is that really the way the tree leans or is it just me...? the sense of depth is almost surreal, and the colors, well, the blue really, are beautiful together. This was probably my favorite.

#2: (daffodils) These flowers are beautiful, and yet again the pale colors complement each other nicely. The only thing I don't like is that the bottom of the photo does not need to be there, I think. It would look better cut off, because it takes the focus away from the flowers because it is darker than the rest.

#3: (washing line) This simple clothesline is a beautiful scene in its own way. I love the way the soft pastel colors of the pins stick out just the right amount against the darker background. I also like the tree in the exact center. It looks really good, but I think actually it might look better if the same scene were photographed in the evening when it was darker outside, but not so dark that the color would fade too much. The sunlight in this one makes it a bit difficult to see the details.

#4: (blossom tree) The colors are amazing here! I love the grass fading from yellow to green, and I especially like the top right corner, where the slightly greeny blue of the sky slowly fades to the white of the clouds. It's awesome! There's one thing, though, that the top of the tree cannot be seen amongst the cloud, which would give a kind of cool effect if it wasn't such a sharp separation between the rich colors of the ground and building and the white of the clouds, and then in the middle the separation just ends. It just doesn't look right.

#5: (daffodils leaning) Thank you for not having the bottom like in the first one. I like this one much better. I also like it because it captures the essence of two 'characters' if you will, because of the way there are two main flowers in clear focus in the center front. This is wonderful!

I loved these photos, I would like to see more!

graet job!

Hi Dreaming Forever,

I'm just tossing you a quick note that you've overexposed and over saturated your photographs.

Exposure:

Over exposure can be nice in some cases, like certain black and white pictures but you have to be aware that when its overexposed, you remove all the lines from your picture. You can tell when something is overexposed when essentially it washes out the image and the details are white.



Note here how the flowers are the back have no definitive line to them, it makes them blotchy. And the flowers at the front handle the exposure more smoothly, but you've washed out the central yellow and all the details on the petals.

Instead of playing with exposure afterwards in whatever editing meat grinder you put these pictures through, know that you can play with the exposure on the actual picture with your camera if you have one of those more professional types by extending the amount of time you keep the shutter open (in seconds). If you have a digital camera that doesn't have that feature, next time you put it through an editing program don't automatically swing it to the highest possible exposure or saturation because not only does it look very unnatural.

Saturation:

Oversaturation is when the colours are blown out of proportion. Added on top of exposure it makes for some pop in picture colours but also it has got its faults.



The areas I circled are examples of it. There are photos out there that thrive on being over processed but it's usually done with more subtlety. Note that the tree now blends in with the clouds because they've been made into the same pearly white. It does nothing for you really, it turns it into nothing more then a flat image.

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Over processing is rarely interesting. People tend to do this when the picture itself holds little of value to make it more aesthetically appealing but it looks unprofessional. There's no problem with bright pictures but know how to keep a balance so it can be bright but still looks real. Don't interpret this as me saying don't ever process your pictures - I do so myself but keep in mind to have a healthy balance of things, or have an actual motive behind such colours or brightness.

Kamas