Dad's Patricide Comedy
by chalice

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I don't get it. This is definitely not a sub-5 photograph. Great lighting, nice composition and excellent focus. The title works nicely with the capture, as well. My only critique would be to shift over to the viewer's left more. The door jamb is a little distracting. Nice work despite the score.

Eyes like a hawk
by MacDonald

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

Congrats on your best-scoring photograph to date, as well as a top 30 finish. Your focus is dead on and the composition near flawless. Looking through your past challenges, this is one of your best entries. I think the only reason this image fell outside of the top ten is because of the cliche you chose. The title really makes the viewer strain to look at the eyes, whereas a title similar to "fly like a bird" may have guided the viewer to look more at the entire image. That's the way this site goes. You can submit a near-perfect image, but get hung out to dry with the title. I would have still scored this one in the 7-8 range, as all the elements come together to draw the viewer into the photo. Nice work.

Bubbling under the surface
by Caillie

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

Congrats on your best scoring photograph to date. I like your choice of subjects here and your composition is terrific. This one fits the challenge very well, but its almost hard to recognize. While the focus is very crisp and the exposure is on, the animal moving through the water creates a distortion that would be very hard to overcome. This one would have gotten a 5 or 6 from me, so I think that it finished well. I think that this photo is about as good as it could be considering what you were working with. Nature isn't very easy to script, at least not when I try to do it. Nice work, and I'm sure that your scores will continue to climb.

“Red Sky at Night, Sailor’s Delight. Red Sky in Morning, Sailor’s Warning”
by GIS_boy

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

Congrats on the top 40 finish. You really have some nice work in your portfolio, and this one is no exception. You have a crisply focused, nicely colored image. I do think that the sun itself is a bit too centered, but not enough to drop a point in voting. I think that the fishermen are just a bit too small, and increasing their size would really increase the impact of this photo. The various horizontal lines work well to carry the viewers' eyes up the "steps" of the photograph. Nicely seen and well captured.

Day6-Object
by IndigoButterfly

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Great capture! I hate that I missed that original posting!

Every Day Rhythms
by tngrndream

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You met the challenge well here, but I think that this one was just too commonplace for most voters. I like the tight, square crop for this one, and the focus is crisp. Technically, its a nice shot, and would work well for a product photography challenge.

Let sleeping bears lie...or else!
by Kelli

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Crop, crop, crop. You captured an awesome expression, and fit the challenge perfectly. Maybe shifting your position around to avaoid some of that green would have helped more.

Silk Flower Rhythm
by chalice

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Not a bad shot, just a little busy. I think this one would have scored much, much higher if the top of the frame had been cropped off. I am guessing that you left it so the viewer could understand what was in the frame. Quite honestly, I probably would have cropped it the same at first. I think that I would have tried to set up the shot so that none of the mirror frame or white wood were captured. I think that the sharpness and exposure are very nice.

Dangerous dancer
by nomad469

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

You have a very nice capture here. It gives me the feel of someone not afraid to do her own thing no matter what the common crowd says or thinks. I like the composition, though I would like to see that left elbow. I also like your choice of f/2.8 to produce this great depth of field. The toning is appropriate for this image, but the coloring looks flat. Slight levels and curves adjustments would have remedied that, adding some much needed contrast to the photograph. Also, when requesting submission critiques from the Critique Club, it would really help if you would add some image information in the photographer's comments section. This helps us to understand what you saw and what was going on in the frame at the time of capture. Overall, this is a pretty nice image that I would score in the 5-6 range.

Standout
by igoofry

Comment:
Hey there from the Critique Club

I see that I also left you a comment during the challenge. Reading back through, I will echo some of what I said there. Your composition is nice outside of the new blooms on the right side of the frame. I like your rule of thirds use, but perhaps placing the subject on the right vertical thirds would have eliminated those distracting blooms. I see that a couple of others also made that comment. Your point of view and depth of field work very well together to add to the quality of this shot, as do the contrasting colors. With the advanced editing challenge, I think I Might have tried to enhance the DOF blur of the background and saturate the reds just a bit more.