Riverside
by computerking

Comment by photom:
The tree frames the scene well. Too bad the sky was so bald and the river so white.

Riverside
by computerking

Comment by garlic:
If I were you I would have tryed to expose the river and the background trees correctly and blackout the forground if necisary. The image is soft focused or at least very unsharp and I think you have to reach pretty far for the framing.

Riverside
by computerking

Comment by e301:
The sheer level of contrast prevents this from working for me - so much bright, so much dark, and I would imagine the interesting stuff - the texture of the bark of that tree, the patterning and tones of green in the far bank - happens in a very restricted middle ground. Besides that, htere doesn't seem to be much very striking about the scene anyway - no special moment of light, unusualness of location. There's a hint, in the very left of frame, that the grss beside the lake/riveer and the dappling of the sunlight through brances might make a good image, but whether you could have made that fit the challenge, I don't know. But for all those points, I think you're not far off here: wait for the light, try to control the exposure in the sky - perhaps some fill flash to give detail in the shadows? - and perhaps, compositionally, just allow a little more foreground, and i think you'd have a very restful photograph.

Riverside
by computerking

Comment by smr78:
This image is blurry ... sorry

Riverside
by computerking

Comment by Bran-O-Rama:
I don't think I need to tell you that this image is out of focus and heavily overexposed.

Riverside
by computerking

Comment by emorgan49:
Beautiful! I love the way the background disappears into the washed out water and sky.

Riverside
by computerking

Comment by Lekas88:
out of focus

Riverside
by computerking

Comment by Artyste:
This shot is over-exposed. I'd suggest using an f-stop of about f5.6 and a shutter speed of 500 - 800.. and then experiment from there.. if you can. If you have a p&s, try aperture locking the sky, and the bringing the camera down to take the shot against the background of the trees.

A Break in the Clouds
by computerking

Comment by cwyou:
Good idea but I'm not sure about the use of B/W on this. I'd like to see it in colour

A Break in the Clouds
by computerking

Comment by Sammie:
This picture really does convey hope. I can't help thinking, though, that it might have been nice in color.