Third time's a charm
by M.O.C.

Comment:
8 - Likely underappreciated at this size. I like your title.

Amelia
by freakin_hilarious

Comment:
8 - Beautiful moment captured. Like the tones.

Portrait of a Parrot
by MaryO

Comment:
7 - Some funky things happening with the grain and noise (which kind of work, in my opinion), but I really like the composition and look on the parrot and especially like the muted colors.

Disco Fever!
by aliqui

Comment:
7 - Interesting image.

Making A Point
by Bugzeye

Comment:
8 - in sane luna tic - excellent capture.

once I stood tall
by Stagolee

Comment:
8 - Oh, nice image. What a scene. Bet this looks fantastic wall sized.

Horse Play
by Ivo

Comment:
7 - Good portrait. Wish I could see more of the horse in the frame, despite the good effect of him/her sneaking in up the top.

skyline
by Senay

Comment:


Critique Club Critique

First Impressions
The colors of the city are quite nice but the frame dominates the image too much. It is not quite 'far out' enough to show a 'skyline' to match the username for this Challenge.

Photograph Information, Technicals & Composition Review
For a long exposure of 3 seconds, I think you could have afforded a much lower ISO than 800. The quality of the image is not very clean and the night sky is showcasing this, rather than being nice and smooth, which may have been helped in post processing. I also wonder whether a deeper DOF, especially to garner some of the fore water as well.

Compositionally, with the tall buildings in the center of the image as well as on the left, throws the compositional balance out. With the scene as is, perhaps a tighter crop on the right would have helped. Apologies in advance if wrong, but it seems this may have been taken through a window as I can see what look like some subtle reflections here and there.

As already mentioned, the frame is too dominant, not only in color (which doesn't seem to pick up and complement any color within the image) but also in size, for an image of this size. The image also looks like it needs a slight nudge rotate up on the left to straighten.

Comments, Score & Placement Review
133/169 is low down the pack, but I think that the voters didn't get a strong connection with the username, that and the framing might have made them move on a little too fast. The score of 5.44 is quite good, especially for where you placed.

Just reading your two comments, one mirrors some of my comments above and the other says that they like the image. With a combined score of 7 from your commenters, they both liked it and voted it high.

Summary
Without your border and with some post processing to smooth out some ISO issues and tweak the lighting, this image may have been improved. However as I first mentioned, for your title/choice of username, the impact and 'fit' is not as strong as more skyline would have given, in my opinion.

Macro Thing
by silverhawk

Comment:
" ...Hope Member Macro Thing is sort of happy i picked his name."

I certainly am (and I 'get it' too) - Thanks

edit to say: meant to mention that I didn't even think to look for my name, just started voting - saw the title and 'twigged' - hence my comment reading the way it did - was a nice surprise

Message edited by author 2009-08-03 05:15:47.

The Burn Pit
by CorySmith

Comment:
7 - Nice lighting, nice quality - I want to see more 'roughness' on her face.. if that makes sense. She looks so clean. I like the forward glance/look - just wish also for a little more 'character' to shine through - facial expression or something, just to give her/the image a little more of an edge.. if that makes sense. Also, do miss her legs, but... I appreciate the crop dilemma. Like the distant sun and its placement too.