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Hi Ego -


On my calibrated, one-year-old, wide gamut NEC monitor, your colors and tonality certainly are very reasonable.  Although I would have made slightly different artistic decisions, I see nothing overtly wrong with either the colors or tonality of these pix.  About the only technical aspects that I think need attention are:


a) The colors and tonality of the putter image do not match those aspects in your image titled, "-depth-field-jpg".  I prefer consistency, so I would probably tweak the putter image to match your "DoF" image, as I consider the putter image a bit cold and darker than I would prefer. 


a) On the image with the clubhouse, it looks like you up-rez'ed a lower rez version, so the image looks very soft -- I would never submit it this way.  However, my guess is that the versions that you posted here are not the full rez versions, and those probably look just fine.


b) On the silhouette image, there is a small sharpening halo.  Again, I presume this isn't present on the full-rez version.


As I mentioned above, everyone has slightly different artistic preferences and goals, so I would have processed these images slightly differently.  Below are three GIF animations to illustrate the directions I would have gone with these images. You'll probably immediately notice the vignetting I intentionally introduced in the 2nd and 3rd images in this post.  I think that a bright center tends to keep the viewer's eye where you want it, not wandering out of the frame, but this is again, a personal preference.


Note, because I was working with relatively low rez, previously processed JPGs, the tweaking I made introduced some artifacts (eg, banding in the sky of the silhouette, noise and diffusion introduced in the process of making the reduced palette GIFs, etc.) that clearly wouldn't have occurred if you had  processed the originals with these goals in mind right from the start.  If my tweaks appeal to you, and you are interested in discussing them more, just let me know -- they are just suggestions based on my own artistic preferences.


HTH,


Tom M


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