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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joseph Bautsch" data-source="post: 9067" data-attributes="member: 654"><p>Screen Hit, Good you got it in the critique forum. My thoughts on this one, picture number one, can be achieved in Lightroom 3 without CS5. As has been suggested by Helene, I would use the brushes in Lightroom and burn in the rock on the lower left, making it darker,. The bright rock is distracting. By making it darker you take a lot of the distraction away. I would also burn in the light colored lilly pads in the upper right. Same reasoning. The brightness distracts from the duck. Once that is done I would, as Helene recommended, crop from the bottom up to just below the ducks reflection and place the burned in rock sitting on the bottom of the framing. A darkened rock sitting on the bottom of the frame will be a lot less distracting. I would crop the top down to the lilly pads and a little off the right (not much). The cropping should provide the composition balance. Apply the rule of thirds, the top third, the pond and lilly pads, the middle third the duck and the rock he is standing on, and the bottom third his reflection and the darkened rock. How bright and vibrant you want the colors is often a matter of choice. Helene likes them brighter and more vibrant and in this case I would agree with her. You should also sharpen it up a bit. BTW Helene very good analysis.</p></blockquote><p></p>