Your brother lives in an awesome place! I'd be forever out exploring with the camera, it looks like an incredible place to get lost. I think you could have got away with cropping this slightly to lose a bit of the foreground as the mountains look epic with the snow and bright light. I notice this is shot at 40mm, Did you take any more at a longer focal length? It would be fantastic to see some more entered in some future contests if so!
This is a really beautiful image, one I'd quite happily have as a big print on the wall. Compositionally it's really nicely laid out, the lines in the foreground field work well against the river and the barns centrally placed where the hills meet look spot on. A worthy winner, well done!
Plitvice lakes have been on my hit list of places to visit for a while now, there's loads of incredible photon online from there and it looks like a special place to explore. I really like the way the path snakes through this image, it leads your eye from left to right and the foreground foliage helps to frame it nicely. Good job!
I think this had the potential to be a really nice image, I'm just not keen on the sky swap/enhancement as it doesn't match the scene. There appears to be some artefacts in the sky too, probably from Luminar. I do like the shallow depth of field to pick out the castle. I'd maybe tone down the colours and revisit the sky as I think with a bit of tweaking and reprocessing you could have a really nice image there.
This has good potential! Can I make a suggestion? If you don't live too far away I'd maybe go and revisit this shot as a few small tweaks will improve it dramatically. Try and consider your subject, that windmill looks fantastic it seems a shame to cut off the top of the sail. Also, the fence looks like it goes all the way around so I'd maybe try and frame it centrally and tilt your camera up a bit more so you get the whole fence and windmill in. Only a small adjustment to the composition would really elevate this!
I really admire the effort you've gone to to get this shot, no tripod and your issues with ability have not stopped you from capturing a really nice image. The colours are great and the reflections are spot on. It's not easy with large bodies of water to find clean reflections so kudos to you for the effort you put in to get this shot!
For your first time using a slow shutter speed this is awesome, I'd say it was more or less the perfect speed to use. You've resisted the temptation to expose for ages creating a complete blur and you've managed to retain all the texture in the water. For me, this is crucial to a good long exposure image of water. Really nice job.
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Every time I see photos from the mountains in Iceland I'm just mesmerised by the colours and patterns, Iceland is on my list of must-visit places so I'm looking forward to seeing the mountains for myself! You've captured them on a lovely sunny day, so the colours are fantastic, I'd maybe have cropped it to 16:9 to lose some sky, I think the image would be stronger for it but I still really like it!
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Welcome to Photocrowd’s ‘Landscapes’ contest for New Joiners! These contests are a chance for new members to introduce their photography to the community, and get a taste of how Photocrowd contests work. They can be entered by anyone within their first 28 days of joining Photocrowd. After 100 images have been submitted the contest closes and the Crowd will start rating the images. The Expert Judge will also be judging the images and writing reviews at the same time. All the winners, both Crowd and Expert, will be announced after 3 days of judging. Make sure you also check out our two other New Joiners contests - ‘People’ and ‘Animals’.
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Epic reflections, and some sky too! Still water like this is just perfect for photography, Summertime hikes are the best, amazing colours and great weather make it an absolute pleasure to be out and about. I'm always impressed with the quality of images from phones now, even at full resolution it still looks great. One tiny critique is I'd maybe tone down the saturation a tad but aside from that, it's a great image.
This is a really pretty image, I think without the starlings it may have lacked interest in the sky but they really give it a lift. Nicely composed and the colours are great. I'd maybe have tilted my grad filter to the right a bit (if you used one) to balance the sky a little but it's still a lovely photo!
