It snowed
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Yeah well - simply the amount of time you've worked in this square format has put this out of reach of most judges understanding; I'm glad you submitted - an interesting lesson in composition, even if it were nothing else.

Message edited by author 2006-03-23 03:29:53.

Profile Squared
by jbsmithana

Comment:
I don't know what your options were re cropping, but I'm not sure you've got this quite right, really; square has a different dynamic, and the 'thirds' lines rae less comfortable in it, I think.

It snowed
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Can't quite get away from this image - I almost just passed on, but the composition grabs my eye. The chaos of those snow-lines is intriguing, especially as it resolves in the top left; the little echo of it bottom right is somehow just not quite there - the focus not being as crisp, nor the processing to bring it quite into the same luminance space - it detracts a touch from the relationship of the two areas; with advanced editing, that should be fixable, no? And the composition is so subtle that I'm surprised its been missed. Interesting photography, whatever.

The Oddest Couple of All; Mankind and Nature
by GIS_boy

Comment:
from the Critique Club

I thought, at first, that this must be from a 'Blue' challenge, and got left over. An odd photograph, for an odd challenge. I'm sure you can see for yourself why it got voted down the way it did - the weird tonality, the punter's version of odd being different from yours (and mine, as it happens).

I kind of like the image though, somehow. Despite a bunch of stuff that ought not to work really - the mid-point horizon, a slight lack of real fine detail (as in may of your submitted images - enough to make me think it's more of style choice than an accident), and a certain vacancy about it all. Of course there's an implication of 'where's the fisherman?', but that adds a simplicity to it that might simply have been ordinary otherwise. I'd be interested to know your thinking around this one.

Night Eyes
by sir_bazz

Comment:
Love this - strong sense of composition, and all the technical stuff in place. The fade to black is well done, also.

Female nature
by Nuno

Comment:
Has a feel almost from the early days of photography - that blurring, and slightly strange focus, and the overall dark-ish but low contrast feel. the pointing finger makes it feel like a comic entry, but the processing works against that.

Mysterious
by tryals15

Comment:
Good colour, detail, depth of field. Does it work square? ... I'm not completely sure: the jaw line is perhaps what bothers me - it seems to upset the balance of the image slightly. Your placing of the visible eye dead centre really works though - I think in square the centre point of the imagae becomes much stronger.

playful
by CreativeFlyPhoto

Comment:
Lots of good technical things - especially colour and light; I find the composition a bit lumpy, perhaps cropped a touch too close? For a subject that's not intrinsically very interesting, I don't think you've managed to add the necessary magic: but it's entirely competent nevertheless.

***
by PhotoRyno

Comment:
Good detail, great moment, works in this crop, excellent exposure. My only (very) slight quibble would be with how dark the trees etc. are compared to the bird - perhaps just a touch less contrast there? Minor point - very minor. Fine photograph.

The Eye
by Nyck

Comment:
Nice try, but the exposure has let this down a bit - too much glare around the skin, and perhaps generally over-exposed half-stop or so. It would have more impact, more sense of tone and depth, if the brightness overall were reduced. Oh, and of course, it isn't really a square crop now, is it?