Lovers By Moonlight
by posthumous

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Greetings from the Critique Club!

Sorry about the wait for your critique, this is coming out of the backlog!

Hahah well you were correct in your brown estimate, congratulations! When I saw this in voting I thought it was rather funny, caught me off guard after seeing so many moon pictures.

3.3 is harsh, I think it's due to that overblown spot, and maybe the lack of moon ;). I gave this a 5, reminds me of that one scene in Lady and the Tramp. Not calling you a tramp. Keep fighting the good fight.

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Senay

red flower changes color in blue MOON
by prashant_168

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Sorry about the wait for your critique, this is coming out of the backlog!

Personally I'm not a big fan of flower photos, on this one though I rather like the wide range of colours and the water droplets forming. That being said I think you got hit hard for the simple reason of not having the moon as the main subject. To me this is more a flower shot. It's good for a flower contest but doesn't fit in so much with the moon theme. Good luck in the rest of 2010!

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Senay

Subject Nº 6,999,998,678: Jessica
by Insomniac

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Sorry about the wait for your critique, this is coming out of the backlog!

Another image of yours, this one is much more difficult to try to critique hehe.

What is there to even say about this picture? You placed 6th in a challenge with a lot of great entries, one of my favourites in the contest, and I'd have to say the best photo of a baby I've ever seen!

Everything is so perfect, but if there was one thing I would change it's that arm on the left behind the head. That's just a small nitpick though. Great job!

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Senay

Full moon rising
by MinsoPhoto

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Sorry about the wait for your critique, this is coming out of the backlog!

I see you're a fellow Rebel XS user! There's very few of us around that submit to challenges. You received some good comments during and after the challenge. The composition is good, diagonal lines are always good. I've never taken any pictures of the moon so I can't really give any helpful advice as to camera settings or anything.

The only major thing bringing down your image is the black ring around the moon. It kind of gives it a fake feel, as if it's a shadow and the sky is a backdrop. Anyways I think without that ring and even if you kept the foreground more in a silhouette style you would have placed better in the moon challenge.

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Senay

The lonely moon
by narendra

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Sorry about the wait for your critique, this is coming out of the backlog!

Originally posted by Senay: Not sure what the light at the bottom left is but I think your photo would benefit from having the branches lit solely from behind by the moon.

This is the comment I left during the challenge, and I still believe that the light at the bottom is the only thing that kept you from having a higher scoring entry. I do hope you continue to enter challenges, it's tough at first but little by little you learn more and improve, good luck!

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Senay

My Clouds
by angkokweng

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Processing on this is quite nice. Position of the church is good, the bottom border created by the hedge is perfect, and those clouds look amazing! You received a high score from commenters and even a favourite! I think the only reason you didn't receive a higher score was because some people don't enjoy HDR/Topaz Adjust style editing. Definitely deserved higher, but don't be disappointed by your score, it's higher than anything I've received ;)

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Senay

Winter Rain
by Luci11e

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Just wanted to drop by to tell you that you got robbed on this one! I gave you a 7, I really liked the focus and bokeh

Macro and Bursting With Color!
by SquishyB

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Greetings from the Critique Club!

The other people who commented pretty much covered what could be fixed about this picture. It would have scored better had it not been out of focus. The colour is good but I feel that the very top of the picture is too bright especially when compared with the grey in the lower part of the background. To better light the inside of the flower I suggest holding something up to use as a reflector. Even a blank sheet of paper in front of the flower will light it up so that the details are better seen.

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Senay

Precision
by kaiser_chief

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Greetings from the Critique Club!

Very eye catching photo! During voting I gave this a 7. A little of the left side could be cut off, placing the planes in more of a rule of thirds positioning. The red planes against the blue sky is very nice! The only thing I didn't like about this picture is the smoke trails being a darker grey colour. The only way I see to improve this image would be to have turned the smoke trails a more white colour. I see it's your second highest rated photo, congratulations!

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Senay

Drinking Fountain
by SEG

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

First Impression: First thought was "NO NOT THE BEER!" then I read your title.

Subject: It seems that people had two feelings towards this picture, some thought it was interesting and others thought it lacked a certain something for the Best of 2009 challenge. Personally I thought it was a pretty cool idea! Being a fan of beer I really liked this shot, I gave it a 7.

Technical: The selective desaturation works well to highlight the beer taps. I'm not a big fan of how the angle, I think it would have worked better straight or fully diagonal.

Final thoughts: Now I'm thirsty, if it wasn't 2:07 here I'd drink a beer.

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Senay