Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :)

2013-10-19 Thread Stan Halpin
I will mostly echo Ken and Ann and the others. I found your first shot to be pleasing. Not exciting, not dynamic, not innovative or radical, but pleasing. And I think that fits the scene - a quiet pastoral on a grey cloudy autumn day. I looked only at your third variant so can't comment on the

Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :)

2013-10-19 Thread kwaller
ciprian.crac...@gmail.com Subject: Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :) On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:12 PM, kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Other than the colors, I'm not sure what I should be looking at - ie I don't

Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :)

2013-10-18 Thread Ann Sanfedele
this is better - the tree on the right and the darker sky both help upping the contrast would help - some cropping so that the tree isnt quite so far to the right (that is, chop off from the left and, while you are at it a bit off the bottom.) I didn't see the need to comment on the other as

PESO: Autumn-scapes :)

2013-10-17 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
Hello all! Half of the autumn has already passed, and yet I've not seen many pastel pictures on the list. Thus I'm biting the bullet and bellow I put two links (one 2.9 MiB and 400 KiB variants) of an autumn-scape I've captured today while on the road.

Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :)

2013-10-17 Thread Bob Sullivan
A colorful start to autumn! Muted colors but pretty. Bob S. On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! Half of the autumn has already passed, and yet I've not seen many pastel pictures on the list. Thus I'm biting the bullet

Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :)

2013-10-17 Thread Bruce Walker
A very handsome landscape. On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! Half of the autumn has already passed, and yet I've not seen many pastel pictures on the list. Thus I'm biting the bullet and bellow I put two links (one 2.9

Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :)

2013-10-17 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:12 PM, kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Hi Ciprian I have a couple of comments that should improve this image - Comments are always welcomed, especially those critical, thus let's see... I'd crop out the blank sky as it doesn't add anything to the image. The

Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :)

2013-10-17 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:12 PM, kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: I have a couple of comments that should improve this image - Comments are always welcomed, especially those critical, thus let's see...

Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :)

2013-10-17 Thread kwaller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com Subject: Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :) On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:12 PM, kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Hi Ciprian I have a couple of comments that should improve

Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :)

2013-10-17 Thread kwaller
The third try seems more realistic to me. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com Subject: Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :) On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun

Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :)

2013-10-17 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:12 PM, kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Other than the colors, I'm not sure what I should be looking at - ie I don't see any compositional elements - line, shape, form etc

Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :)

2013-10-17 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:03 AM, kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: The third try seems more realistic to me. I can assure you that the colors weren't so saturated in reality. In fact I think that even `variant-b` is more saturated than in reality. Or it could be that my monitor pumps the colors