[Pavel]

Comments welcome. Pavel 50mm 1.4, 1/8000 @2.8, B&W tinted, sharpen base

[matthew]

Very nice, I like this and like the title. If I was really picky, I might want to see a bit of darkening at the right-hand edge and water to de-emphasize some of the space there, and clone out the blown section, and maybe crop just a modest sliver off of the bottom of the photo... but these are fairly minor refinements, not suggested corrections, if that makes sense.

[Pavel]

Thanks Matthew for the review. I agree particularly with the darkening on yjr right. The "blown" foreground is not actually blown (does not show red) and closer look shows details there. I like to have the gradation of tones. I tried to "preview the effect by scrolling and I did not see improvement, but that may be because I did not know how much you had in mind to crop. What numercialy you had in mind and I will try it. Pavel

[matthew]

Looking at it on my desktop, I agree, there's still detail in the bright spot. But I wouldn't mind seeing it go away anyways - it draws my eye when there's nothing really interesting there. The real interest for me is in the patterns of the fountain. As for how much to trim: looking at the space from the bottom of the frame to the bottom of the fountain's base, and then crop about 1/4 of that, about where the highlight is directly below the fountain's spout. (Give or take.)

[Pavel]

Thanks Matthew. I amy just darken the spot a bit, rather than clone it out. I agree, it should not detract from the main show, but at the same time, variety of tones add to the photo I think. I will try the crop. Pavel