Beach Stability
by arnit

Comment:
Gorgeous! I love this. The shallow DOF is great, the narrow cropping, and the small size (plus the big border) all work together in this image. My attention comes right down to that one, smooth pebble on a timeless beach. Very littoral :) (I love that word). 10 from me.

Serenity
by lykofos

Comment:
A little bit dull. The sky is overexposed (easy to do, I know), and the 3 areas of landscape, while being serene, yes, are featureless. I like the pebbles, but there isn't much to hold my interest.

Pains Hill Cobham
by redfig

Comment:
I love the rich tones in this photo, and the composition of that river. It has the feeling, though, that you used noise removal or some aggressive compression on it... maybe that's not the case, but some areas of shrubbery are kind of smudgy. I'm not going to mark down for that, because I could be wrong.

Cold, Cold Welland River
by calaille

Comment:
Very pretty, but I'm sure many people have mentioned that it's a little small. I like the fact that this reduces it more to the level of textures and colours, because details become indistinct... but is that what you wanted? The border is very thick, but maybe in this case that works.

Crossing
by timj351

Comment:
Very beautiful and atmospheric. Great composition. I think I'd like the darkest tones to be a little darker, but that's my only nitpick.

It's too noisey
by Paulk

Comment:
The light in the sky is really interesting. Very atmospheric and moody, with those silhouettes. The photo itself has a bit of noise (ironic?). Using Neatimage could sort it out.

Night & Day
by gps_01

Comment:
Well, by some bug in the Critique Club automation page, I was given this photo to critique, even though I'm not on their list! (I shouldn't have clicked on the button out of curiosity :P). So you get to have my first ever Critique Club critique!

I think that this is a great way to express the idea of "Night and Day" in a photo, in both a literal interpretation of the title of the song, and, as you describe, in the wider sense of the emotions described in the lyrics. Cole Porter was a great artist. The song is about the savage, yearning emotions that underly love. I really like the way you chose the sunset to express this - the interface between night and day, the setting of the sun giving an idea of the cycle of time (night follows day follows night, etc.) just like the "beat beat beat of the tom toms" and the grandfather clock, etc. evoke the incessant passage of time in the song.

As a sunset photo, it's very nice. The colours are vivid, and there is a lovely, sweeping texture in the clouds. However, that little bit of horizon and the pylon are problematic to me. You say there's a city there, but I can't really see it. The horizon looks tilted, giving a feeling of disorder or chaos to the photo. That kind of undermines that idea I described of the orderly passage of time. A tilted photo works well when you want something to appear wild or crazy or strange, but this photo, to me, needs to be more subtle. The pylon is just a distraction that doesn't add anything to the composition.

If there had been more interesting scenery around, I think you could have framed some into the sunset shot without undermining it too much... a little more of the horizon, a tree, something along those lines. But what you have here is intrusive and distracting. It could easily have been cropped out, leaving a photo that may have been a bit more abstract, but would have retained all the elements that I thought supported the "night and day" theme very well.

Revealing
by Natasha

Comment:
Interesting and pretty. It seems like she's made up for the stage... paying in "the Mikado" or something. I like the effect of the body paint on the skin. The costume and hair decorations are gorgeous, and the pink background sets it all off well.

Soul
by Alecia

Comment:
One of the moodier eye photos. The composition doesn't grab me, but the high contrast black and white is very nice. I like the shallow DOF.

belly
by shutterfly

Comment:
This has a really nice watercolour painting feel to it. The colours are weird, but I like that. The tattoo and bellybutton piercing a really gorgeous. I like the way the lighting picks out asymmetrical shadows over her tummy. Very nice work.