I hate photo shoots...
by Llambo

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: Very nice focus and great depth of field use. The crisp focus on the dog's eye is very right for this photograph.

Lighting: Your lighting is just a touch too harsh. The overexposed area on his left cheek is significantly distracting and surely detracted from the overall score. In an advanced editing challenge, I try to expose for the highlights, as burning out light areas that I want dark is fairly easy to do. I do find the side lighting very appealing and the shadows your created very interesting.

Composition/Content: Great doggie expression, and the dog's position leads the viewer deep into the photograph. I agree with ShutterPug in that I would also like to see the rest of the dog's snoot and paw. With this crop, everything feels tense and crowded.

My Opinion: I think you met the challenge very well and very creatively. With some slight lighting and cropping changes, this one surely would have scored a good deal higher.

Eric

Hotter Than Heyyyyy...No...Wait!!!!
by 777STAN

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: While very creative, it is very difficult to determine if anything is in focus or not. The red coloring also suggests that the white balance is off.

Lighting: Very interesting and, again, very creative. As mentioned in an earlier comment, it just looks washed out and overexposed.

Composition/Content: Nice composition, but I would like to see the rest of the chin. Chopping it off there looks more accidental than intentional. I do like your chosen angle for shooting this one. It provides the image with a very nice flow.

My Opinion: While meeting the challenge well, it appears that this is not what the voters were looking for. Crisp focus is a must to do well in challenges such as this. I do like the creativity, as well as the interesting composition, but I think this one scored pretty close to its potential as it is.

Eric

\"Little Child\" from With the Beatles
by _eug

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: Great focus on the child's face, while using a nice depth of field to blur the distant portions of its face and hand.

Lighting: While everything is fairly evenly lit, it is also a bit flat. That probably came from using Hue/Sat to convert this one to BW. I am not very familiar with Elements, but if there is a Channel Mixer, give that a shot. While everyone has their own settings, 45%/32%/30% works pretty well for skin tones. If PSE doesn't have this, try some slight curves adjustments to bring some contrast back into the image.

Composition/Content: Great composition. This provides the eye a nice plane to flow across.

My Opinion: While not a Beatles fan (not familiar with their titles), I believe you met the challenge well. With some lighting adjustments, this one would have scored a bit better.

Eric

'coldplay' in toronto
by saintaugust

Comment:
Here's number 1000 for you. Great image that offers many emotional responses. I hope you gave him a buck.

cityscale.jpg
by saintaugust

Comment:
Interesting, but it looks like there is a lot of work ahead for someone. Then again, a lot has already been done.

The 'Support' Firefighter
by saintaugust

Comment:
Nicely seen and nicely captured. This is a very nice high-contrast image that lost very little detail in the shadows.

divine freedom
by saintaugust

Comment:
I really like the lighting you produced here. Nude images are always my favorites, and you produced yet another that I like. Beautiful model and terrific post-processing work to yield a very nice image. Wonderful work.

Edith Cowan University
by Qiki

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: Terrific focus and nice depth of field. Everything in the frame is nicely seen and there is very little noise in the image.

Lighting: I don't think that the uneven lighting works very well with this image. The highlights produced on the right hand side of the frame pull the eye that way and compete with the nice composition.

Composition/Content: Very strong. Your cropping and leading lines work very well to move the eye through the frame. Without the competing highlights, the eye would flow nicely.

My Opinion: Very nice work in meeting the challenge very well. Very well seen. With a slight lighting change, this one would have been in the 6 range easily.

Eric

Weathered Column
by meyers

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: Nice focus, but I think a deeper depth of field would help. I'd like to clearly see the columns in the background as well.

Lighting: Your lighting is a little flat. The shadows in the column heads help out a bit, but this one needs a bit more contrast.

Composition/Content: The centered composition hurts this one. Perhaps standing a bit either side would have made this one even more appealing.

My Opinion: I think that you met the challenge well, and that this one scored close to its potential.

Eric

La Pedrera
by AndrewTO

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: I like the tilt you chose here, and your focus is spot on. The white balance you chose yielded some very nice coloring and tones.

Lighting: The lighting looks a bit flat and uneven. A slight curves adjustment would have helped a great deal. There seems to be more light at the top of the frame than at the bottom. This is probably based more on the colors in the building than actual lighting.

Composition/Content: Your composition is this image's greatest strength. The angle paired with the repeating patterns provide the eye with lots to look at, thus keeping it flowing throughout the image.

My Opinion: This is a fine image that met the challenge very well. With slightly altered lighting or a crop that lost the bottom of the frame, I think you'd have jumped into the 6 range.

Eric