Feel free to help with these...

[nps474]

( I obviosly sort of like this one, but it could be subjective, it sounds strange, but should I tone back the sharpness a bit? Tone up maybe?)

Some recent photos from the garden, south suburbs Chicago. Shot with Sony A100/Tamron 90mm macro RAW into jpeg with mior touchups. What do you folks think?


(Sot of your average macro flower capture, I would like to find some Orchids to shoot)

(I thought I would post random pics I liked, snaps of Springtime in Chicago)


(would anyone pump up the colors even further here?)

Thanks for taking time to look.

Feel free to edit to illustrate any tips and stuff...

[PrevailingConditions]

I don't think you need any help; these are great shots, but I especially like that first one. Good color, focus, and DOF. Well done.

PC

[nps474]

I don't think you need any help; these are great shots, but I especially like that first one. Good color, focus, and DOF. Well done.

PC

Wow, thank you that was unexpectedly nice to hear.

[jkriminger]

number 1 is really good. the red and the yellow might be slightly too vivid...or not. I think if you bumped down the yellow on the bee in your third pic , might be less harsh. Nice shots. Here is a copy that I took a layer in adobe cs2 , hue and saturation..and took the saturation down to -18, and the brightness down to -10. I think that takes care of the sharpness..?..What do you think...and pls tell me to stay away from your pictures if offended..I immediately delete them from my gallery.

[nps474]

number 1 is really good. the red and the yellow might be slightly too vivid...or not. I think if you bumped down the yellow on the bee in your third pic , might be less harsh. Nice shots. Here is a copy that I took a layer in adobe cs2 , hue and saturation..and took the saturation down to -18, and the brightness down to -10. I think that takes care of the sharpness..?..What do you think...and pls tell me to stay away from your pictures if offended..I immediately delete them from my gallery.

I love it. Thank you. Feel free to edit any of my pics.

[GB1]

# 1 is a really well done shot! I like the edit a bit better though the original is OK too. I can't see how I'd change it. # 2 sort of lacks a central area to look at. It could use some more depth of field I think, and the colors, though pretty, is overwhelming to me. # 3 is well captured (good timing) but I think it would be more effective if you were a little farther back so that the bee wasn't clipped, and the orange wasn't as dominant.

Overall some fairly successful macros. They're hard to get sometimes but you did well to capture the action

GB

[LeeIs]

I'm in love with #1. The four 'ants' on the 'sphere' just revolving. The green and the red hues are very pleasing to the eyes as well as the DOF. Very well done.

[nps474]

Thank you guys for the spot on ccritiques.

[Frog]

I like the sharpness and dof you achieved in the first.
Focus is too soft for the flower but that me personal taste.
I think the bee is too tightly cropped.
Quite well done, overall.

[nps474]

Thanks Frog, here's the story on the bee, as so often happens, the little critter sort of flew into my line of sight unexpectedly, I quickly tried to get a focus and started wildly snapping away, when I edited the images, I realized all the shots had cropped out (oops) the top of the insects head, I thought, perhaps, if I added/extended the same sort of crop severity to the bottom portion of the specimen, perhaps some interesting balance could be achieved. Sort of making lemonaide out of lemons. I thought the frame (over) filling effect would be dramatic, but perhaps its a matter of personal preference.