The Fly
by tpbremer

Comment by gg3rd:
Love the shallow dof with focus only on its eyes.

The Fly
by tpbremer

Comment by tjbel05:
Wow, bright red eyes.

The Fly
by tpbremer

Comment by ELLIPS:
Not bad, but needs more DOF in my opinion (at least a part of the wings should be focused)

Spiky Landscape
by tpbremer

Comment by jmsetzler:
Greetings from the Critique Club...

The two comments you received in this challenge, coupled with your own feedback on the image, do a rather nice job of summing up what happened here. On this website, bugs are done and done and done and done again :) They do make good macro subjects when they are well done, but this one is not particularly well executed. This particular photo also demonstrates on of the things I hate most about digital photography. The 100% crop, or any significant crop for that matter, is just something I'd rather not even hear about. In your image, its obvious from the artifacting and noise. You could never print this image, or others like it. Digital photography has given us a medium where billions of images are created and relatively few of them ever find their way into print form. I guess we have become content with looking at an image on the computer screen instead of a magnificent matted and framed print with some substantial size. I guess coming from a background where the final image was a PRINT makes me underqualified to judge the quality of a digital photograph ;)

Spiky Landscape
by tpbremer

Comment by Blackbox:
A great macro and fairly abstract. On the downside I think you've maybe cropped it too close for the photos resolution as it appears to me to be very grainy and has lost a lot of clarity. I'm still voting it high I think at 8.

Spiky Landscape
by tpbremer

Comment by Ja-9:
wish something were in sharp focus...just to blurry for me sorry

Day 5
by tpbremer

Comment by Strikeslip:
Rock & Roll!

Day5-Set-up.jpg
by tpbremer

Comment by Strikeslip:
Awesome, yoo da man!

belt
by tpbremer

Comment by spiritualspatula:
Very simple but effective photo. I especially enjoy the light dropoff as the lines on the belt lead off into the distance.

Print-Machine.jpg
by tpbremer

Comment by spiritualspatula:
The uniformity fading into the distance is cool. I've always liked shots that used this technique.