[Pavel]

Let me know - I really do not know what to thisnk of this photo. Pavel

[EnglishBob]

Well, the crest of the wave does look, well, bad really. Sorry

It looks over sharpened, yet the rest of the picture looks normal... what post processing have you done if any?

The texure and tones in the rest of the picture look really good.

[Pavel]

I used levels mostly, the scene was very contrasty, had to pull the shadows up a lot. Did not sharpen. Applied gausian blur to the sky, as the noise removal was not effective enough. That is it, I think. Pavel

[Irma]

The subject (the wave) looks to me cropped. I see also problems with exposure in this one. The shadows look like well defined black spots. That might be because of the use of levels. Curves or lab color are a bit more specific, hightlight/shadows filter also can do better job I think.

I hardly ever remove noise with blur gausian because it looks a bit fake. The sky actually has to have a bit of noise. If you want to use this kind of technique to remove noise I'd recommend to fade the blur filter by 50% or to add the blur filter in another layer and then reduce opacity so then you can control the amount of noise to be seen.

Sorry if I don't comment in all your pictures in this critique forum, but sometimes I have problems with my monitor specially early in the mornings. There is a lot of light in my room and it doesn't let me see well.