Father and Son's.
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Comment by gjumi:
I guess the title should be "Father and sons".

Father and Son's.
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Comment by alanfreed:
Why the apostrophe? Sincerely, the Anal Grammar Person

Father and Son's.
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Comment by codfish:
this shot is rather busy with no real focal point.

Father and Son's.
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Comment by ezekiel8:
I think this photo lacks a subject - it is a little too busy. Perhaps focusing on one tombstone could have been better?

Think it's Gonna Rain.
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Comment by rkligman:
Needed to straighten the building. Nice swirl on the cloud but since it IS the picture, it should be much more prominent (brighter, more contrasty).

Think it's Gonna Rain.
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Comment by slaakso:
Straightening should be allowed if it isn't. Getting lower to the ground and including the cars would have given better perspective. I am left wanting more.

Think it's Gonna Rain.
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Comment by smardaz:
nice sky but otherwise a rather boring subject, and the tilted horizon also hurts it

Shadow Valley.
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Comment by LalliSig:
Greetings from the critique club :)

Hi there again :) Well first off, congrats on your new personal best score so far.

I have some major issues with this image though, mainly the image quality. I am sorry if I am too frank about this but whatever caused it, especially the sky in my opinion and also the mountain that is in the right side of the picture just looks awful, if this is how this image came out of your camera at iso 50 I would seriously check into if it´s defect cause there is simply way way too much color noise in those areas of the picture.

I have some suspicions that maybe your monitor is not calibrated, do you see all of the grayscale underneath pictures when you vote?

I think the color noise rather comes from something you did when you post processed this image. I don´t know what software you use but I think most of them allow you to see the histogram, it´s a good tool for knowing when you are blowing out either the shadows or highlights, you are totally blowing out the higlights in the sky. I suspect you increased the saturation somewhat to get more vivid colors? Well I personally if anything decrease saturation and instead use levels/curves and other contrast related stuff like tweaking contrast in the raw converter since I only shoot raw images, that way I don´t get the color noise that is in this image and still get pretty vivid colors. I urge you to try it out anyway if you haven´t used curves or levels so far.

Other than that, the image quality, I think this is a pretty good image. It´s well composed, MUCH better than the other one I commented on the other day and you seem to have been there at the right time of day cause the lighting looks pretty good so I think you could have scored even better with this image if you had taken care not to blow the highlights like that and used some other method than you did to get the vivid colors. Again, I urge you to check out if your screen is off, that could also explain a lot cause if your screen has some bad settings on it, images can look great at your screen but much worse for other people.

Kind regards from Iceland, Lárus.

Think it's Gonna Rain.
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Comment by JuliBoc:
I think you're right. That's quite a sky. I wish the image were a little sharper and more vibrant.

Think it's Gonna Rain.
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Comment by meyers:
Aiming for the brown ribbon?