Summer Music festivals
by josaa

Comment by betwys1:
Liked it!

Summer Music festivals
by josaa

Comment by h2:
definitely not "youth", these boring old farts (no vote) ;)

Summer Music festivals
by josaa

Comment by rooum:
Looks like the Toy Dolls. Haven't seen these guys i a few years.

Summer Music festivals
by josaa

Comment by flaherma:
Looks like fun, nice shot.

Flowers and Seaweed. Tough conditions !
by josaa

Comment by LoVi:
I'm enjoying spending more time with this. It's my mini vacation. I can feel climbing on the rocks and breathing in the air. Thanks!

Mountains through fog
by josaa

Comment by jmritz:
i like this

Mountains through fog
by josaa

Comment by streetpigeon:
A comfortable, calm image and composition. Just what a fog should be.

No pollution - fresh air - peaceful
by josaa

Comment by sidpixel:
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

My first impressions are of a lovely landscape that meets the challenge but with a lot of overexposure

Air is quite a difficult concept to portray but I think you have been successful with this delightful landscape and, to help the viewer, in your title too. It looks like mono but I see traces of colour in it so I assume it has not been converted to mono but either way it is still very effective. I like the composition and the range of tones throughout

The one thing that really lets this image down is the extensive over-exposure in both the sea and the sky. Unfortunately once you have overexposure the detail is gone for good there is nothing you can do to get it back so its best avoided with some minus exposure compensation. I think you would have been better to combine at least a couple of exposures together one for the highlights and the other for the shadows and you would have got a better end result.

Is that a boat on the water? Its position next to the background landscape makes it difficult to determine. If it is a boat I think it would have worked really well to have paced it in the overexposed part of the water, by either waiting if it was in motion or through choice of your position, where it would have been clearly defined as a silhouette.

It looks a beautiful location, I look forward to more lovely landscapes from you. Sid

Jealous of my neighbors greenhouse
by josaa

Comment by sidpixel:
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

My first impressions are of quite a good image with potential for improvement that unfortunately does not meet the challenge.

It does not meet the challenge because there are no lawns which is undoubtedly why it failed to score better, though all those 1s and 2s are clearly undeserved. I like the action of him watering his plants but with that gorgeous lens of yours I feel you have missed an opportunity to make the best of this. The DOF extends 1/3 in front and 2/3 behind your focus point so, with that in mind, I would say you have focussed on the man. As with any portrait the eyes must be sharp so whilst your focus point is good the aperture is too small thus making too much distracting detail in the background.

I see one your commenters suggests using an even smaller aperture to increase the DOF to the flowers. From your title it could be argued that the flowers are the most important aspect in which case focussing on the flowers with a much bigger aperture may have thrown the man into soft focus in which case you could adjust the aperture to get enough detail in him but no more thereby reducing the background clutter with emphasis where it matters.

I do agree with one of your commenters that a reflector would have helped illuminate the mans face better. I also feel the composition would benefit from being decentralised, you could crop the left side of the image completely right up to the watering can. This would place your subject on the third and get rid of unwanted background clutter. I hope this helps in the meantime continue to enjoy your neighbours harvest! Sid

I wanna go home
by josaa

Comment by quiche:
Not in focus.