The Hermit Castle
by StickInMind

Comment by sidpixel:
Hello from the critique club

An interesting image that meets the challenge

A lovely composition that draws the viewer in though I would prefer the close cropping of the towers, if it has to be done, to have been in the sky rather the water. The other problem I have is the over saturation of the colours which I assume is deliberate for the challenge but I feel it detracts rather than adds impact to the end result. Other than that, it is an appealing image, well done Jonathon

The Hermit Castle
by StickInMind

Comment by Cyrilda:
This is one of my favorites. Beautiful job!

The Hermit Castle
by StickInMind

Comment by Art Roflmao:
Composition: 8 - Technical: 6 - Creativity: 7 - Appeal: 6 - Challenge: 5 - Overall Calculated Average Score: 6

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Monsieur mystère
by StickInMind

Comment by StickInMind:
Thx for the pep talk :) I did think about smoothing the hair a little (the gray hair make it even sharper) but i tried to keep it simple.
One day i will be in top 10 and maybe a ribbon.

Cheers!

Monsieur mystère
by StickInMind

Comment by Lydia:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Ha! I JUST commented on this... then went to see if there were any images waiting in the CC queue. They're randomly assigned and this popped up for me. Ha!

I do love the lighting... it's perfect, in my opinion. Absolutely ADORE the focus right there on your eye. Perfect, too.

The BW conversion is... well... perfect too. I also appreciate the way you didn't smooth your skin as some folks do. So masculine that way.

I don't know why this isn't at least in the Top Ten. Or why there were no comments during voting.

The only nit pick I can even come up with is that it seems overly sharp in some places... like the top of the hair and I'd have cloned out the white glinting whiskers. But, that's only because I'm searching hard to find something wrong. *grin*

Monsieur mystère
by StickInMind

Comment by Lydia:
No comments on this excellent image?

I thought I had commented during voting.

I love the low key... and the excellent lighting and focus... right where it should be.

The indonesian restaurant
by StickInMind

Comment by sidpixel:
Hello from the Critique club

An interesting image that meets the challenge

Well done for spotting the potential from this scene to create something quite unique. The red lampshades are very distinctive in this near mono sepia image, I also like their contrasting square shapes against he round ones above. Your symmetry is pretty near spot on and well justified for the image here. The one criticism I am tempted to make is the vertical cropping, I wish we could see more of the upper windows and lamps, this could have been done with a little sacrifice of the bottom of the frame which I feel is less important than the top of the frame. I am not keen on these 'artistic' PS filters but I can fully understand why you have chosen to use them in this challenge.

Thanks for your original entry

The indonesian restaurant
by StickInMind

Comment by clickodak:
Gorgeous Top 3 for me give 9

The indonesian restaurant
by StickInMind

Comment by Neat:
Brilliant!

The indonesian restaurant
by StickInMind

Comment by bmartuch:
The processing is very nice.