Inner Conflict: Battling Despair
by mocabela

Comment:
An excellent composition and exposure, good choice of B&W. Some minor hot spots on upper forehead, but but IMHO the main problem is simply that your neatimage settings are too high, giving the skin a plastic look rather than just clean of noise. Also, you can see signs of oversharpening by the lashes and eye brow.

1887 Granite
by cbeller

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club:

Hits: This is a well composed natural gradient photo. The exposure looks about right. Sharpness is good and there isn't much noise. The overall tones have fine aesthetics.

Misses: Texture is downplayed here in the stone at this angle and with this light. The granite looks is pretty smooth, so it's really the engraving, the overall shape of the stone, and the clouds that represent surface texture here. And the engraving is not even very visible here.

Ideas. Perhaps another source of light from an assistant angled onto the stone would have brought out the engraving. I think a perspective shift might have made it more dynamic as well: perhaps you could have captured the stone angling on the diagonal of the shot, with an even sharper perspective. Or found a stone with a broken off area so an unsmoothed area of the granite were visible.

Nice picture overall!

Shaggy
by neilmwilson

Comment:
I didn't have a chance to comment on this during but I think it's a beautiful shot. I like the composition, colors and textures! I thought it was going to do much much better!

Terraces
by bobgaither

Comment:
Very nice! Good abstract. The effect works well, but or some reason it seems unclear (maybe just jpeg/resolution issues.)

Showin' a Little Leg
by MrsFuzzButt

Comment:
Nice, but why no head? I think if cutting the head off, perhaps I would have cropped even closer and that would give a bigger shot here with enlarged texture.

Wooden Lady
by oksamit

Comment:
Good subject; generall well captured, however, a polarizer might have gotten rid of the reflections and then you could have captured the nice wood texture (or you might have gone in the store).

Homemade Houska - A Family Tradition
by WildflowerJoy

Comment:
Nice textures! Iit appears to be a bit oversharpened via USM

Leather Belt
by bil99

Comment:
Well worn, good show of texture. The tones seem a bit light here, and I wonder if it might have looked a bit "richer" in color.

AAHH..Nuts
by tfarrell23

Comment:
Nice light and display of textures! One small crit: I find the amount negative space not helpful here, and would have personally liked a bit more of the peanuts in the frame.

Coniston Water
by Imagineer

Comment:
Wonderful light and composition. The highlights are just a bit too bright IMHO, but otherwise it's really fantastic.