A few retouches

[nick]

These are a few photos from the same shoot as this (http://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=54728), one of these appeared in the earlier thread but I've just retouched these particular ones in PS4.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/4370029239_6f87389eaa_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/4370013973_deb56c4d89_o.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4370014277_43dac41ef7_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4370014709_ecba7bb37c_b.jpg

[Giles]

I didn't know there was a photographer in you Nick.

[Marcie]

I Love the last one!
I think it looks better than the previous version.

[nick]

I didn't know there was a photographer in you Nick.

Thanks Ben. I spent most of the last year dreaming of having a photographer in me.

I Love the last one!
I think it looks better than the previous version.

Thanks Marcie, I think so too (obviously I guess)

[2D]

1st one is nice. Good eye.

[Zazu]

First two are amazing composition and colour wise but I can't help but feel that you've overused unsharp mask (at a guess) a bit too much.

The lens flare in the third one looks really good, works well in that one :)

The fourth one would be good but the focus is completely wrong in my eyes; the main focus point of the image (the 3 topish flower heads in my eyes) are out of focus and the more 'inferior' parts of the image are in focus.

Overall good though :)

[nick]

Thanks David, constructive criticism is appreciated. I quite like the sharpening in the first photo but agree that its probably a bit overdone in the second. That second shot has been quite severely cropped from the original and I think makes a better image overall.

In the fourth one I think my priority was to focus on the butterfly - which seems pretty much in focus. With a wide apperture to blur the background of the shot that's resulted in the blur on those flower heads at the top of the shot.

[Zazu]

Thanks David, constructive criticism is appreciated. I quite like the sharpening in the first photo but agree that its probably a bit overdone in the second. That second shot has been quite severely cropped from the original and I think makes a better image overall.

In the fourth one I think my priority was to focus on the butterfly - which seems pretty much in focus. With a wide apperture to blur the background of the shot that's resulted in the blur on those flower heads at the top of the shot.

Oh christ I'm a cretin - I thought that was a leaf :( In that case, last one looks good :)

[beastly689]

okay, so I randomly stumbled across this, and those pics are gorgeous. Just wanted to let you know that I thought that. Thanks for sharing them! You are really a great artist.

[nick]

okay, so I randomly stumbled across this, and those pics are gorgeous. Just wanted to let you know that I thought that. Thanks for sharing them! You are really a great artist.
Thankyou, you dont seem beastly at all!

[Kings]

I Love the last one!
I think it looks better than the previous version.

I agree with Marcie.

[Asylum]

I'm loving the last one