The Big Sleep
by h2

Comment:
I like this - the white dots look like little stars as though she's floating through space :)

In the Suavity of a Wave
by zeuszen

Comment:
Heck - I thought this was one of mine! Just the sort of thing I love to take :) It's abstract yet clear as to what it is - I love it!

$&^_a
by chipuc

Comment:
A lovely simple image, really like the colours and the composition (not keen on the title) :)

Nicollette
by njsabs

Comment:
A beautiful portrait of a beautiful girl :) If I was going to nit pick - I'm not keen on the arm/hand, I think either being able to see fingers on the cheek or not have it at all might be better. But overall a great image :)

Cool Portrait On A Hot Day
by 1m1A

Comment:
Love this! Less keen on the rectangular vignette effect:(

Complimentary
by drick172

Comment:
Hi Daniel from the Critique Club

You did an awful lot right for this image - the eye is invariably the point of critical focus and you worked on that. The background is pleasantly uncluttered, as you planned with your shallow depth of field.
Unfortunately the composition lets the image down, no harm in not including some of the wing if the subject of your image is the butterfly's eye, however losing just a bit of the wing looks careless rather than planned. The area of focus is underexposed for proper appreciation, and whilst not necessarily always a problem, the central placement weakens the composition in this instance. Outside of basic editing you could selectively lighten the eye area and maybe with a closer crop (possibly the left third) you could have a very lovely image there :)
In relation to a 'pink' challenge, there was certainly some lovely pink there although maybe not the main subject of the picture.
In summary, an image to re-edit to reveal it's full glory :):)

Hope that helps, feel free to PM me with any questions or comments.

H O M E : Flinders Street Tunnel 9:50:55 am
by hotpasta

Comment:
Well done, an excellent image :)

Levitating Squares
by robinegg

Comment:
Critique Club

Hi Robin :)

First impressions
A dynamic, colourful image.

After some time with the image
You've created an image full of magic that fits in well with the theme, the set up and composition are good. Whilst the lights do add a great deal to the image I can see that all those circles within the confines of a square challenge could have lost you a few points. You mention focus, specifically the cube, it's difficult to tell but with the image at this size the focus seems fine and any drop off in sharpness is probably due to the small depth of field that you would have got with an aperture of f1.8.
A commenter mentioned the blurry hand and that is probably more of an issue, motion blur would have been fine but this looks like movement blur of a hungry husband expected to keep still for 1/50sec ;)

Overall
A creative image that has worked well, you were constrained by time and the prospect of basic editing, so you can only improve on this already good image.
:)

Flying
by posthumous

Comment:
Oh, I thought the flower was dreaming of being a tree, I can see his dream, blurrily behind him....

Morning Coffee
by gbautista87

Comment:
Critique Club

Hi Garret :)

First impressions
Interesting depth of field, nice tones.

On reflection
Still lovely tones, good composition and meets the circle challenge well. The shallow depth of field works well to emphasise the focus of your image. The loss of detail in the hands is unsettling, a commenter mentioned noise reduction and I agree that it does look like that has been heavily applied, however as it's not in your PP notes it must be as a result of the shallow DOF and the overhead flash. The other unsettling thing is the lack of catchlight in the coffee, again it could be explainable by the set up, but the two things combined give an unreal feel to the image. Sorry if that sounds like I think the image is fake, just sometimes a paticular set up of lighting, aperture etc works better than others. Some of your commenters liked the softness so you can see we're in the area of subjectivity here ;)

Overall
A nicely toned and composed image that fits the challenge well. The softness of parts of the image will appeal to some and not to others.
:)