Wild Mustangs
by goodtempo

Comment:
~~~~Critique Club Comment~~~~

Composition (content)
The composition is almost perfect. The angle at wich the bronze horses are shot is excellent, because it makes you feel the horses are running towards you, but make a turn at the last moment. The only things that take some of the power of the shot away are:
* The ear of the front horse is cut off by the uper frame border. And even when it is in, doesn't hur to leave some space between the subject and the border of the frame. I guess it happened by accident. After downloading and full screen viewing I often discover that the frame I considered perfect was slightly moved and cut a detail off.
* The horse with his head down is to close to the edge of the frame. The space at the left side gives some more depth for example and therefore that space is good.

This is a great photo subject. The fountain at the bottom makes this picture alive and kicking. The lighting is great, the artist who made these horses also did a very good job.

Background
Good thing the background is so dark, because it isn't beautiful. The windows reflect and glare and they seem to be in the field of focus, not nice.
There are two things I am thinking about:
* would a polarizing filter take the glare out of the windows and hopefully make them darker, or would it show what is behind them and create even more background noise?
* would a wider aperture (F2.8-F4) blur it more while keepin the horses in the field of focus?

Perhaps the polarizer would also take some of the glare of the water, not that that is a problem, but perhaps an interesting effect, might also do something about the Chromatic Abberation/blooming in the water at the bottomright corner. It would most like take the glare of the edge of the fountain in the bottom of the frame and make it even smoother then it already is.

Camera Work (Technical)
Excellent. Good depth of field (but see comment about background), excellent exposure, good focus, good sharpness. Using the high shutterspeed to freeze the water is a very good choice. As said by others, it really looks like they are running. Using a slower shutter would blur the water to much. Perhaps that was also the choice for F4.5, F2.8 would allow 1/250 at most, too bad that there is no ISO50 on the 707.
Whitebalance looks good to me.

Digital Processing (technical)
Good.

My opinion
Wonderful shot. Just a little bit better framing and a nicer background would really make it a winner.

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Ice Shell Mining
by amonteforte

Comment:
Wonderful. Cameratech, composition, colors, subject, focus etc great! 10.

Kicking Up Her Heels
by magnetic9999

Comment:
Sexy. :)
Nice image, only distraction is the blown out rail on the right.
Good frame.

A good prospect
by jjbeguin

Comment:
A good year. :-)

Good exposure. Lighting left some hard shadows on the background -/-.

Amber Brkich of Survivor II: Australia
by alanfreed

Comment:
I like the position in which she is portrayed. Exposure and stuff like that is good, but the lighting leaves one thing to be desired and that is the shadow from the hair on her face. I can't see a shadow of the hat or on the background, so that is good.

Aaron
by greenem2

Comment:
I like the position of the head. Not head on, but a bit sideway's, nice touch.
Good exposure, good dof. Nice lighting. It is one of a few picture's my eye is drawn to when I look at the thumbnails.

Traveling Through Hidalgo
by JEM

Comment:
Funny subject. Nice composition, good color.
Seems to be overexposed at the right and in the background. Perhaps that could be avoided? Too bad a tighter crop would go throug the sign.

Bird's Head South
by crabappl3

Comment:
Very clear shot, the birds seem to be very far away. Yet there is still detail under the wings and in the head area. Shot with a low sun? The frame enhances the image, not bad at all.

A weary traveler rests
by bil99

Comment:
Original subject. :)
Good field of focus on the main subject. Sharp, nice colors.
Wonder what a tighter crop will do.

Ready for the Outback
by alanfreed

Comment:
I like the lighting & exposure and color of this image. It would do great in a travel magazine when the background was a bit more interesting.
Good detail.
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