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Wow..!!  So many great photos =D

chobit

Time to comments on everyone's photo...I was holding off until this contested ended.  Please I am not claiming to be an expert, nor do I want to offence anyway, so pls forgive me if I do.  Otherwise, I just like to share my opinions to help everyone to improve including myself.

1: My own photo
Just some facts about this one.  I was taken at the U-Washington Seattle campus.  I was a week too late, since most sakura flowers are already on the ground =(  Decided to try out my TS-E lens to create this 4x Megapixels photo with the merge with 3 images.  I think it would look better when viewing it large on print.

2: My own guess only.  I think the tree trunk on the left is mean to be there to balance out the composition.  The composition will also improve if you can try to include more diagonal lines in it.

3: Overall very good picture, and eye pleasing.  For my own personal taste, I would crop off more of the bottom (The darker out of focus area), then a little at the top to create a square image.

4: I think the image is too high contrast.  The bride/groom has very beautiful costumes, but the background is too busy, and the sakura isn't standing out either.

5: Using image# 3 as a reference photo.  There are a few things that's missing in this image which #3 has.  Example, the out of focus area isn't as good (May has to do with the lens).  On image #3, the focused flowers really standout, where the backgroud of of focus bokeh help soften the whole image.  One #5, the showdows on the flowers casuing the front not standing out, and our eyes tend to look at both the focus and the OOF area alot..!

6: A beautiful image that's perfectly composed.  The main sakura tree along with the high contrast branches starts out from the bottom right of the frame, but extend diagonally  to the top left of the frame, while the other trees continue to provide beautiful color along the top left to bottom right.  Yet and bit of the sky in between them allow another diagonally line to be created in the frame, and the little open sky on the top left and the bottom right shade area which well to balance out the photo adding the necessary negative filling to create this image as a whole.  GOOD WORKS =D

7: This one is nice, but can be better if we can find a better location.. IMHO.  I would love to see trees along the side with a narrorer curvey backcountry road, and no metal polls along the road.

8: Let just say it isn't easy to spot rainbow, so that's a bonus.  However, the photo w/o the rainbow itself has room to improves.  The main subject is simply too dark, and not standing out.  I can see that the subject of the left & right are there to composition balance.  So, definiely on the right track.

9: Both the back/fore-grounds are too busy.  Try to shoot more, and review them, and you will soon learn to know what works, and what not...!

10: That's a good photo to be on a reference book, simple and a clean flat background, but not good enough to be a winning photo.  Again, what's been done on photo #3 works better imho.

11: Ricrick photo =D  It's a good macro flower picture, focus well, color is very bright and balance, but this is also not a winning type photo either.