Waiting

[jjeling]

Thought I would get a critique on this one. Saw this on a walk in the woods and figured it would make a good shot. Figured I should get a critique on this before I have it printed out.

[Mad Aussie]

I like the bokeh ... nice colours there but the main subject is too soft for my liking. I know you like 'soft' but sometimes I think things need to be sharp.

[tomorrowstreasures]

+1 on the bokeh and color
love the title -so fitting.

[Marko]

I REALLY like this shot.
To Improve, I too think the web itself should be sharper and for this shot, your tag text is distracting.

[jjeling]

Ill check the original out, maybe the image fell apart too much when i resized it. Doubt that is the case. Ill make sure to try it again. It is kind of hard though. There isnt a lot of light in the woods as you can tell, and to get the bokeh, you have to be at a high focal length, so any movement of your hand or the subject will soften the picture up. I will go back and try though. I generally never pump the iso past 400, but maybe I will start trying it.

[jjeling]

Here is the image again. I took the image I wanted to use for printing and resize it in a different way. The sharpness was saved much better than the other version. Instead of 800 at the longest side, it is now 1024 as well. Maybe this will help?

[jjeling]

Nope, resizing the image ruins this it is much sharper viewed through PS. The details are extremely fine as you can tell. It is a sharp picture viewed through photoshop. Is there a way for me to share the full version of this?

[Mad Aussie]

Nope, resizing the image ruins this it is much sharper viewed through PS. The details are extremely fine as you can tell. It is a sharp picture viewed through photoshop. Is there a way for me to share the full version of this?

Probably only if you send it to your blog as a tiff and then just put a link here for us to follow

[jjeling]

Will make the update later tonight or early tomorrow morning. Thanks for the idea.

[Iguanasan]

I've been linking my images in from Picasa Web because the forum software resizes the images and can make a bit of a mess of them. I know Marko would prefer to have them uploaded to the board but I kept getting comments of them being soft focus so I switched.