Headwaters--Pulse

Not sure what to say about this it truly is an abstract. The water does a good job of blurring out the detail below yet the colours come threw nicely. The bubbles are a nice catch and so is the water texture that you have captured. I think the brightest part could be darkened a touch so as not to over power the rest of the picture. Cheers

Nancy, the overwhelming brightness in the middle of this one introduces a lot of confusion into an abstract that would probably best rely on shapes, textures and colors to work. If there's any way to balance the harshness of the lighting here by starting over from a RAW file, that would work best. I'm not sure what Powershot you're using, but understanding the use of things like RAW and manual settings for exposure in digital nature photography is enormously important to the success of your images.

I agree with Marc and Raymond, but i think this is a pretty wild and cool abstract even with the bright spot. It would be tough to really nail this, im not sure you could blend multiple exposures, so probably the only way would be to underexpose (or expose for the highlite) and then do some serious work in RAW. It really only the very brightest spots here that are problematic.

I can see where the extreme brightness in the center could be problematic so I went into photoshop to see what I could do. I'm just learning photoshop so about the only tool I knew to manipulate this with was a healing brush. Not sure the results are an improvement but I did get the center toned down some. Comments?