Snowcovered amazingland (Updated 12/17)

It snowed last week! (Snow day worthy WOOP!) And after me and my sister had finished shoveling, I went around with her camera and took pictures of our backyard, and the view from my window.

This first picture is from a shrub-thing in our backyard and I'll post more as time goes on

Irish! I love this picture! It looks like an image from a Winter Wonderland. The snow is perfectly white and sitting on the branches just so. The red berries give it a Christmasy feel and makes me warm up inside. I love it Irish! You are quite the photographer.

Hi Irish!

This was so beautiful! I really like your title (Shrub-thingberries, haha! ) and the snow and the berries and the branches and the...well, to put it simply, everything! Haha, I know this isn't helping much.

Anyway, I like the position of the snow everywhere and it all seems so natural. (Makes sense, since it's from nature. ) Branches also look nice and elegant and graceful. As Forest commented, the red berries definitely add to the photo, and I like the contrast they have with the pure-white snow. (Reminds me of Snow White, the red and white, ha! )

Only one teeny-tiny suggestion: (this is the only thing I found! ) maybe make the photo a little brighter. I just would love to see that!

So, great job, Irish! I love this photo. I'll be waiting to see some more works...hehe...

Wow, I can certainly relate to Fruits_Basket. The contrast between the berries and the snow is indeed eye catching. Makes me wonder if you grew the bush to take this picture.

And yes Irish, Fruits_Basket is right when she (she right?) commented about the brightness. I copied the picture and followed Fruits_Basket's instructions and it looked much better, much much better. Try it for yourself once.

Anyway, Great job Irish, and ideal picture, makes one think if you practice o.O photography for a hobby... o.O

Hey there, Irish!

Not a terrible shot, but not good either. We don't exactly have a focal point here, dearie, so our eyes are wandering all over looking for something. A good focal point would have been a berry in the foreground and the rest in the back.

You need brightness and vibrance as Tohru said; you need to bring out contrast and make the red look red -- it looks a bit drab like this. Not bad, though. Keep it up.

June

Hey Irish!

Oh, man, you were so lucky to have snow! I've had some frost but that's it!

Now, onto the photo. I'm afraid I kind of agree with June here. The berries seem too far away and covered by the snow to have too much of an impact on me. At the moment, the closest thing to the camera is simply a snow covered branch with doesn't draw the eye at all, so we are left looking at the entire picture and not really being drawn to too much in it. I would consider trying it from a different angle next time. Try going closer up and getting different things in focus!

But I do love the berries.

~Amy

Wow! Thanks so much for the amazing reviews guys, they are all great

Heres another, this is actaully the bush the berries were on. The snow was too heavy for the branches and it made it look like that, I thought it was really cool

Wow, did i mention i love snow!!

This picture is great! Although the snow covered pole thingy with a green sign with the letter 'W' is kinda a distraction from the real picture which is the snow covered branch. And, wow, it looks so natural and Chirstmasy and and... nice and wow and great job Irish!!
A great job indeed.

o.O I just realized that the name of the picture is 'bush-thingy-berrie-producer' haha, nice one. Keep it up!

Irish!

I actually like this one more! Despite the fact that we still don't have a designated focus, this is easier to look at because the ones at the top are more straight than the stringy ones at the bottom!

The sign to the bottom right is a distraction -- I would clone that out in an imaging program. Again, brightness and chilling could help this photo a good deal. Not a bad shot; keep practicing. You have potential.

June

Pretty. All we got was a dusting of snow.
I like the second one the best, the snow just setting on the branches looks really neat. The first one is more colorful because of the berries so that looks more wonder-full. (Ugh, I need to lengthen my vocabulary)
Anyway, good job. Keep taking pictures! Don't get discouraged because you could never be as bad at taking pictures as me!