On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:39:46 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking
some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since
the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record
the drought.

Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some
interesting photos.

http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf

You hit this one

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2...92789669MymBxy

with Noise Ninja and leave the meta color data alone, it's an award
winner. It's a wonderful image - you don't see evening shots with
that much color, shading and nuance. All that B&W work you did paid
off on this one.

This one

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2...92789669tamYtI

is god damn freakin' - I don't have the language skills to laud this
image.

Damn man - that's stellar. The louder blooms are right on the edge of
being blown out, but that just adds to the overall feel and gestalt of
the image. I can't say enough good things about it - wonderful.

I also like this one

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2...92789669gteCJU

Very moody and ethereal bridge to nowhere kind of image. That could
be a cover for a sword and sorcery novel or maybe a mystery/romance.
It has a little bit of fade at the top, but that's contrasted by the
bridge lights - the meaning being the lighted bridge to the light glow
in the sky which indicates something different than a path to nowhere.

Lot's of imagery and stories in that image. Well done.

This one

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2...92789669fATEMu

needs to have the stars and lights close in to the bridge cloned out -
they distract from the image. If you clipped those out, or cloned
them out, it would improve the image quite a bit. The eye is
attracted to what looks like dust and that doesn't help the overall
impact of the image.

Do that and it's also a good one.

This one

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2...92789669GqMaFH

needs some help - the dark/light contrast is off. If you could
lighten up the darker trees along the side of the road and bring out
some detail, the image would work much better.

This one

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2...92789669iEIxVH

again, the editing process is your friend. Remove the green glows and
you've got a great image.

Here you go - the best of the shore line shots.

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2...92789669iYOOsj

Noise Ninja on the raw shot and then hit it with HDR processing and
you have the best of the lot - which says a lot because they are all
good.

This

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2...92789669WhfSdk

would really be good if you could get rid of the white bloom - it's
way over done. Isolate that area and tone it down a few notch's and
you have a runner up to the preceding image.

Overall, you have a great capture eye. Several of those images would
be worthy competitors in any exhibition and I'd bet if you cleaned up
those bridge images and submitted them to whatever state magazine the
DOT or state puts out, you'd be sure to have them published.

You might also consider those shore shots for your DNR publication or
whatever state outdoors magazines are published in GA.

Well done Reg - most excellant.