Old Ways
by bennettjamie

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
Is the subliminal suggestion working?

The Ring and The Lillies
by bennettjamie

Comment by MikeO:
Not very interesting to look at, does nothing for me. Still as you like it and think it is interesting I would not worry what other people think of it, I gave that up years ago.

Beautiful Bride
by bennettjamie

Comment by bennettjamie:

Originally posted by snaffles: Nice enough pic but her dress is very bleached out, the window is a huge distraction and I think her smile is forced - she looks very posed, very stiff through her entire body. She looks like she just wants to get married already!

Yes! I totally agree! This is when I first started to pick up a camera...but considering I had no idea what I was doing I didn't do too bad lol Thanks for the critique! : )

Beautiful Bride
by bennettjamie

Comment by snaffles:
Nice enough pic but her dress is very bleached out, the window is a huge distraction and I think her smile is forced - she looks very posed, very stiff through her entire body. She looks like she just wants to get married already!

The Ring and The Lillies
by bennettjamie

Comment by snaffles:
I think your image is interesting, but just not compelling enough to do very well here. Which is the star, the flower or the ring? IMNSHO they are competing for attention and honestly the stones set in the ring are mostly just a blown-out mess of white. And the shallow dof on the petals just leads the eye all over the place, never a good thing.

We can't see any detail of the stones, let alone the settings. I can see you're trying to be artsy with the shallow dof, but with such a badly rendered ring, it's just not doing any favours for you here. From my own experience, sometimes you have to take at least 200 shots to get a shot like this right, and be prepared to take 200 more. Right in that the ring is tack-sharp, we should be able to see what cut the diamonds are, and if you're really good, you can even get some of the individual facets to spark back at you.

Message edited by author 2015-12-08 20:08:22.

The Ring and The Lillies
by bennettjamie

Comment by nstevens85:
For me, I gave it 5. I like the colors but my eye bounced around between the ring, 2 out of focus flower parts (are those 'stamen'?), and the in focus petal in the lower right. Rather than pull me into the image (to explore finer details) this subject competition caused me to loose interest quickly and move on to the next image..

Message edited by author 2015-12-08 19:58:04.

The Ring and The Lillies
by bennettjamie

Comment by Tiny:
Uninteresting image and the exposure is not that good.
The color is ok.

The Ring and The Lillies
by bennettjamie

Comment by MargaretNet:
I gave it a 4. I don't understand why you think it is artistic. To me it is a very awkward composition without a clear subject. If the ring is the subject the background is very distracting.

PS There is a lot of good advice in these comments from some of the best DPC photogs.

The Ring and The Lillies
by bennettjamie

Comment by pixelpig:
This is a lovely shot of a flower. And that looks like a very pretty ring.

The Ring and The Lillies
by bennettjamie

Comment by bennettjamie:

Originally posted by Elaine: I gave it a 4. The ring (which I took to be the subject) is not in focus and is too centered for me. Also, to me the most interesting part of the iris is where the yellow meets the purple, and that is not in focus either.

Thank you for your comment! The part you found the most interesting was supposed to be blurred lol