Sunrise
by Amy

Comment by jpochard:
Beauty is a subjective thing, I know. In my scoring and comments I'm trying to score based on NOT whether or not I would think a particular subject beautiful, but on whether the photographer has succeeded in creating a beautiful photo. I look for the elements of color, lines, focus and dof interest, lighting, and a certain element of grace and lovlieness. I'm looking for a unique and creative appeal for the highest scorers. The description says to create a photo that makes the viewer think "that's beautiful", so it will undoubtedly be very subjective. (This is what I'm putting at the start of all of my comments, and I hope it is helpful.)

That being said, I think this photo could be improved in several ways. First I would either capture more of whatever that right hand branch is attached to, or get it out of the photo altogether with either a different angle or clone it out. I think there is too much dark foreground adding nothing to the interest of the shot. I would cut it by about half. I know you're shooting into the sun, but I would like to see a bit darker exposure and use your editing to bring a bit more richness to the other sky colors while reducing the sun brightness some. And also, having both the horizon and the sun centered so much doesn't add any composition interest at all. I hope this is helpful.

Sunrise
by Amy

Comment by stphw:
This photo has great potential. The colours look good and the clouds add some interesting variation to the sky. I would been nice to clone out the tree branches. It would be interesting to see how photos taken minutes later would of turned out.

Sunrise
by Amy

Comment by love:
twigs on right are distracting

Best Friends
by Amy

Comment by cheekymunky:
I'm really gonna have to read the story behind this one!

Best Friends
by Amy

Comment by BAMartin:
Makes me want to hear this story :-)

Best Friends
by Amy

Comment by md8speed:
I would have like to have seen the heads in the frame

Best Friends
by Amy

Comment by pitsaman:
People with heads cut and butts in focus,I would not put such photo in challenge .

Best Friends
by Amy

Comment by docpjv:
why chop their heads?

Best Friends
by Amy

Comment by Catherine_B:
This is not a very interesting photo when compared to others in this challenge

Best Friends
by Amy

Comment by SnapperL:
wet tshirts would have been nice also! 5