Lookin' For My Place in this World
by karmat

Comment:
(Critique Club)

Hey there! A fabulous closeup shot indeed. So much, in fact, that it is
very difficult to give you any good critique, but here goes nothing..

Composition: I really like what you did here. Your right-focusedness combined with the blurry background are beautiful. If anything, I would try to use a more even surface (black sheet of paper or similar)

Technique: Technically a difficult, but well done shot. I would have a look at the way you compress your pictures, though - this picture is 128 kb, and you can tell there are JPEG artifacts in the blurry part in the background. Why not attempt to use some more of the allocated 150 kb and get rid of the artifacts? Great work, though.


Creativity: What can I say? Great!

Made me think: Not really. The picture has very little emotional value to me, and raises few questions.

What could be done to rank higher: The picture is certainly aestetically pleasing, but doesn't make anybody think. While being a good picture technically, it seems to lack the human touch that would nudge it from being a good work of photography to a great work of art.

Cheers,

Haje Jan Kamps
www.photocritic.org

Torch Tester
by ladpupmoe

Comment:
Not a terribly good quality shot (there is very little PEOPLE and very much flame), but still a cool idea. (5)

Photographer
by jodiecoston

Comment:
A very cool portrait shot, which would have done excellent in the portrait challenges. But I would probably argue that this person is being photographed, rather than being "at work". Hence, falls outside the topic. I give you a few points for the quality of this though (3)

Retirement
by dodobird

Comment:
Excellent idea and a nice execution. Not strictly at work, perhaps, but I realise your idea. (9)

W. Farrell Edwards-Bright Mind for Physics
by sagestudio

Comment:
Nice and moodful picture. I think this might be a winner. (9)

oooooh.... this is gona be expensive
by timboydwhite

Comment:
Not a bad idea, and certainly unusual.. But I am not sure how much of "people at work" it shows.. I would never have gone to a dentist with fingernails that dirty ;) (4)

On Duty
by JB707

Comment:
A nice picture, but if this pictue had been sharp and clear, it would have been possible to read the text on the board. It also seems oversharpened, for some reason, and it somewhat bothers me that the horizon is not straight. Not a bad idea, however. (4)

The Highlighted Area
by inspzil

Comment:
Well.. It certainly made the top100 ;)

Me In Black & White
by DavidLevin

Comment:
This picture makes it look as if you identify strongly with those bottles on your dresser.. Unless that was intentional, i think the picture was a bit of a miss, I am afraid. (3)

Party on[e] ;-/
by Imagineer

Comment:
Pretty cool idea. (7)