Night at the Lake
by OneSweetSin

Comment:
Critique Club time. Hi Anna.

A technically accomplished shot - you've done well with the exposure: not so easy to get a shot into the sun and yet keep some detail in that upturned kayak, and the progression of the far hills receding into the haze.

One of my first feelings was that this wasn't specifically seasonal, bu then I DO get a summer evening feel from the picture - I think it's the reflections on the water.

Compositionally I think its good too: there's a movement from the kayak, to the large hill on the left, to the clouds in the upper right that keeps the eye intersted.

Good work here.

November 22, 1963
by crabappl3

Comment:
People don't understand you see. Or perhaps, they don't see. Wonderful photography, and I'm no sentimentalist about JFK whatsoever. This is just how taking photos should be.

Ed

Don't Cry For Me
by Shiiizzzam

Comment:
No favourites yet - well I'll correct that at least. An unearthy wonderful shot, though i think very few made the visual connection with that crack and the path of tears - more pity them. Mesmerisingly good work Shizz. How it didn't score above 14th is beyond me.

Ed

Summer Field
by agwright

Comment:
congratulations on this Tony - it seems to me a very 'British' photograph, and I love the feel of it. Now for a blue, eh?

Ed

I drop
by ursula

Comment:
Hello (again) Ursula, from Crituque Club

By my definition, negative space is that area of a phtotgraph that isn't the main or subsidiary subject: so by that definition this qualifies admirably - and was one of the more memorable shots from the challenge. And an intersting take on a common theme too.

All the details are great - focus, sharpness, just a perfect level of non-focus on the background. I'm not sure I'd have used such a shiny object to drop the water - I'm no fan of that reflection - and i think also I'd have cropped the white area at the bottom of frame. But who am I to comment? 6.4 is a very respectable score. Pleasant also to see a shot where the negative space wasn't black, or simply plain: a more daring attempt than my own, for instance.

The refc=raction within the water drop is intersting here too - more so than such refractions are always intersting visually: appealling the way the loops of those black lines have almost completely changed to curls.

Ed

Home to roost
by Gordon

Comment:
Hello from the Critique Club Gordon

I ... well, I don't quite know what to make of this image, certainly for this challenge. Ordinarily I wouldn't like the lighting at all - that harsh flash flattening everything - and my first reaction was to be perplexed about the negative space aspect.

What I see now is quite a mournful photograph - the darkness that surrounds the insect suggests the end of the day, and somehow one doesn't expect a butterly to survive the night (I've no idea of their actual lifespan, but I'm sure it's numbered in days rather than weeks). The broken stick adds weight to that impression. So in that sense it's almost an ideal photograph - the three elements combine perfectly to produce the impact of the picture, no wasted information, little complexity: a declarative statement.

But I do dislike the lighting: almost all texture has gone from the wings, they could almost be cut out of paper, and likewise for any depth to the twig/stick. Any improvement would be tricky to achieve for sure - what possibility of using a handheld flash in that situation? Something at least to get the light away from the plane of the camera, to give some light and shade to the subject?

Good work nevertheless - and for me a very good score for the image.

Ed

Sign of the Times
by Imagineer

Comment:
Got to be the worlds best road-sign, huh? Apart from one I saw in Italy that is. Subject is a bit loose for me - the past? To an extent, and it is at least a different approach from others.

97 and Still Hanging
by OneSweetSin

Comment:
I know everyone else will ahve made a comment about your Math, so I won't.

Where only one was burried
by russi

Comment:
love the bleakness of this shot - though i think I might have shot to place the grave cross against the sky: would make a stronger parallel with the cross on the church.

Together
by jimmythefish

Comment:
from the critique club, Hi Jimmy

One of the best wedding photos I've ever seen. The detailing and contrat os first class - especially on the flowers. The highlighting of the rings is absolutely wonderful - this would win all sorts of competitions, I'm sure.

The reason it didn't win this one is because of the subject, obviously. Whilst it could quite happily be the future for many, it isn't specifically so. Can't say I'm sad about that - else you'd be way up above my shot :-)

Ed