"nice lines/composition"

"the flowers in the background work well with the color of her shirt"

"professional-looking portrait"

"Finally, I used photoshop's lens flare effect on him to simulate the lens flare that had been captured in the HDR beach scene. The theme of this picture was just to express how I would like to get the heck out of my room, away from Sunnyvale, and back to these beautiful places I've seen."

"Then I used the polygonal lasso tool to make a selection based on the corners of the monitor and cropped the beach scene with that selection. The third photo is a picture of my roommate jumping. I wanted to give the effect of him trying to jump into this scene on my desk. I tediously cut him out from the background from the orignal image using background eraser and eraser. I then used the burn tool to give him heavier shadows based on the direction of the lighting in the background scene."