Money To Burn
by JSAYB

Comment by hotpasta:
just too blurry and grainy imho

Reach For The Sky
by JSAYB

Comment by quiche:
I like the dramatic lighting, but shadows & midtones are a little too murky. Have you calibrated your monitor?

Reach For The Sky
by JSAYB

Comment by PhantomEWO:
great shot, maybe a little on the dark side

Reach For The Sky
by JSAYB

Comment by sherpet:
This is the type of image I expected re this challenge, and this one is very good.....

Let The Day Go By
by JSAYB

Comment by muckpond:
greetings from the critique club:

while the subject is certainly "relaxed," i'm not sure how well this fit the "zen" challenge. people shots did not seem to do very well in this challenge.

technically, i like the crop and the expression on his face. the colors are pretty dull, however, and adding some contrast would be a good idea.

to answer your question about cloning: the best thing to do would be to select the area that you want to clone out using the lasso tool (or any other selection tool). the tone of the water is pretty even throughout the photo, so you can pick up part of the water above his arm and clone it into the area over the ruffle with little color difference. using the selection tool first will prevent the cloning tool from bleeding over into areas of the photo you don't want to remove.

hope this helps!

Reach For The Sky
by JSAYB

Comment by hotpasta:
why did you save this so small and not at 640pixels???? aaaaaargh!

It's a great shot nonetheless

Reflection From A Broken Mirror
by JSAYB

Comment by sbrian123:
My favorite broken mirror piece. Not sure I like the lighting choice, but the composition is great.

Reflection From A Broken Mirror
by JSAYB

Comment by ShannonLee:
nice idea but the lighting on the face seems very harsh

Let The Day Go By
by JSAYB

Comment by LucidLotus:
This certainly has an aura of relaxation or sereneness to it but I don't find it meets my inner measure of zen. It does meet the challenge definition though. The focus seems a bit soft, perhaps because of the low light, which works here but I do wish it was a bit brighter so the skin would have more of a richness to it, he looks pretty well tanned so a nice glow (even for guys!) is nice. I like the colors and how they match but again with the low light they don't really pop. The image is nice but lacks a bit of pizzazz that I look for to give a top mark to. I gave a 5

Flour To Flower
by JSAYB

Comment by massmediakid31:
nice pun. wish the flowers were in focus.