Disturbance in the Shower Room
by bvoi

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

First off, congrats on a well-deserved top 10 finish.

Camera Work/Technical: Well set up and well captured. Your focus is very crisp and your depth of field is terrific. It looks like the shower was desaturated, which also adds to the moodiness of the capture.

Lighting: Near flawless. There is just a touch of overexposure up by the left window, but it's not even enough to be distracting.

Composition/Content: I like the leading line that you created with the shake It really works well to pull the viewer into the image and explore what else is there.

My Opinion: Great work meeting the challenge in a very creative manner. I think that your placement was well deserved.

Eric

Solitary Man
by swallace

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: Great focus, especially considering that this was a self-portrait AND was done with a 2.5 second shutter. Everything came out very crisp. The depth of field works very well for this image.

Lighting: Excellent lighting that produces a very lonely mood. I got an old barn and hard work feeling even before reading the comments. You did a nice job using light to direct the viewer into the frame and over to your subject.

Composition/Content: Great composition and very strong leading lines that also work to keep the eye moving around to the important elements. I think your capture would have been stronger with a more timeless feel if you had left the sunglasses off.

My Opinion: I guess that the voters subtracted points for there being two objects in the room, you and the stool. In my opinion, you met the challenge well, and did so with an image that is much higher quality than 5.58.

Eric

Abandoned Luggage
by artvet

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

First of all, congrats on yet another top 10 finish. Your placement is well-deserved, and probably should have been even better.

Camera Work/Technical: Very, very nice! I like everything about this image. Your focus is very crisp and your tonal range is terrific. Wonderful depth of field use to keep all elements in focus.

Lighting: While there are many strengths in this image, the lighting is one of the greatest strengths. Your lighting adds well to the overall flow if the image.

Composition/Content: Again, terrific. The textures and moodiness created by this image are great. Everything in the image works well to keep the eye moving and wondering what happened.

My Opinion: This was one of the best images in the challenge, and the voters appeared to have shared the same thought. I think it should have done even a little better.

Eric

Dimensional Space
by seebrown

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: Overall, this is a nice image Your focus is crisp, the image is very clean, and your colors and tones are great.

Lighting: Your lighting is also very nice. There are no harsh shadows or blown highlights, thus leaving all the detail for the viewer to see.

Composition/Content: The corner of the room works very well for this composition to really flow. Both the upper and lower room corner work very well to draw the eye into the frame. The ball with its blur trail also works well as yet another leading line.

My Opinion: I think that you met the challenge well, and did so in a creative manner. It just seems that this was not the type of image the average voter was expecting.

Eric

No gravity
by Djabordjabor

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: There is absolutely nothing that I can find technically wrong with this photograph. Your tones are spot on and your focus is crisp. Everything is the frame is well focused.

Lighting: Again, flawless. Your subjects are perfectly lit and the background is perfectly dark. It would be really hard to find something wrong with the lighting.

Composition/Content: Very interesting. I get a true sense of loneliness by what you put together here. Her body position and outstretched limbs grab the viewer's eye and pull it into the image.

My Opinion: There would be no reason for a DQ, but you didn't hit the challenge according to the voters' scoring. I think this image is terrific, and in a different challenge, it would have been near the top. Even outside the challenge parameters, I think it's much better than 5.13.

Eric

The Dunce Cap
by LERtastic

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: Very, very nice. Your focus is crisp and your coloring is perfect for this image.

Lighting: Yet another strength for this image. You did a terrific job with contrasting highlights and shadows to present a very moody photograph.

Composition/Content: I think that the centered composition works very well for this image. The cap provides a great leading line that sends the eye up and down the entire frame.

My Opinion: I think that you were robbed. This is a much better photograph than 5.19. I think including more of the empty basement would have helped the score, but I do get a strong feeling of emptiness with the composition as it is.

Eric

Things Fall Apart
by gloda

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: This looks like an image that it technically flawless, unfortunately it is hard to tell at the size that it is presented. I like the dirty feel that you gave the image with post-processing, and I'd like to see you post both how you did it, as well as a larger version of it.

Lighting: Whether genuine lighting or post-precessing, this lighting is wonderful. I really like the isolated feel that you gave to your subject.

Composition/Content: Very nice, and the description in your comments made it even better. There are some really nice elements that lead the viewer around the frame, all the while not competing too strongly with the subject.

My Opinion: The score suffered from the size constraints. Unfortunately, I think we needed to see even more of the structure to give it more of an empty feeling.

Eric

Armorvilla
by Kronus

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: Technically, this is a very nice photograph. Your focus is very nice and crisp and your depth of field is nice, including all the major elements in nice focus.

Lighting: Your lighting is also very nice. The tones and light angles give this capture a great feeling of mood and loneliness. There are no harsh shadows or blown highlights that lose detail or distract the viewer.

Composition/Content: Your composition is a bit too centered, though it flows very well. The content is a bit confusing, and I have a difficult time relating it to the title.

My Opinion: While I do get a slight sense of loneliness from the image, I don't get an empty room feeling. With that, I think that this one scored pretty close to its potential.

Eric

The Trap is Set
by Sebi

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

First of all, congrats on a top 15 finish, as well as your second highest scoring image to date.

Camera Work/Technical: At first glance, everything appears very crisp and nicely focused. Looking at the image longer, something the average voter does not normally do, I can see that the mirror's edge is blurred and there is some pixelation in your shadows. I think I would have preferred this one with a deeper depth of field.

Lighting: Your lighting is terrific, and your near flawless tones and coloring suggest an excellent white balance choice. The top of the mirror frame appears to be a touch overexposed, but I think that is more of a focus than an exposure issue.

Composition/Content: Your composition give a great feeling of emptiness. You used the mirror very well to establish some very interesting leading lines. My only composition change would be to edit that shadow out of the right hand side of the frame. It is mildly distracting and competes for the eye's attention.

My Opinion: Mice job meeting the challenge. I think you did a very nice job meeting the voters' expectations for this challenge. I believe that this one scored nicely and very close to its potential.

Eric

No gravity
by Djabordjabor

Comment:
Great image, but I am not seeing the empty room.