Nice shots, I like #4 and #5 the most. Love how you put the people on bikes in perspective with the huge mountain.

But i have to be honest.. they all are a little over-processed IMO.

I like the river bed one where you can see the mountain the most

I like the clarity of the pictures and the colors that you used or shades to touch up (duno what you guys call it)

these opinions from a non-photographer perspective

This pretty much sums it up for me as well... Some of these are way over processed imo...

they are nice but some are extremely noisy..

I think they are far too over processed, skin tones are blown out and look ugly/unflattering (There is a lot of banding in the sky in number 8 too)

When retouching skin, try and stay clear of filters like Nik and Topaz.

Have you had any lessons or formal instruction in Photoshop? I see a lot of destructive editing.

If you are going to use the Dodge and Burn tool, set your new layer to blend mode Luminosity instead of Normal. This will stop colour being destroyed.

Or, create two curves adjustment layers (both in luminosity mode), one layer pushing the highlights and the other pulling the shadows. Fill with black and paint with white.

#8 is amazing. props on the pictures, good work.

Wow.. these are incredible. #8 is my absolute favourite here!!!

I like a few of them like 4, 8, and 10 but there is way too much noise in a lot of them that really doesn't appeal to me because I feel that it takes away from the photos instead of adding to them and to be honest, I've always been more attracted to more natural looking pictures rather than obviously photoshopped ones.

This post was edited by irdesi on Aug 10 2010 02:19pm