Exquisite Gaze
by librodo

Comment:
Whilst the tonality and all that jazz is, no doubt, exemplary ... and whilst, were I taking someone's portrait, this kind of detailing and care of exposure would be what I'd hope for, I can't say I'm all that bothered about this shot. Great portrait - but I get nothing more from it.

Odd scene seen...
by tannah

Comment:
I like this - at last, I was despairing. Of course the near silhouette of that left-fore couple, and their pose absolutely make it - but as much, I think, because of the construction of the composition - all lines lead to the centre standing bloke, and his curious upward gaze. The only thing I would say, and absolutely say, is that this must be a black and white shot. It just cries out for it - it would move the entire subject out of the boviously humdrum, and make a grest deal more of the strange shapes and relationships here. Marvellous work, otherwise.

Family - "Five in the bed and the little one said..."
by notesinstones

Comment:
from the spare room of the Critique Club

Hi Jennifer

One of the great things about the Critique Club is that you get to meet the work of photographers you perhaps wouldn't have stopped by otherwise. I've been having an interesting little winter's evening stroll around your collections.

This is an interesting submission for the challenge, I think: I didn't get to vote on this shot, but I do remember feeling rather confised by the whole thing - I think because the central idea of the challenge seemed to demand an approach to photography that I don't really share. In many images I struggled to find a valid reason for the separation of the framing, be it between different images or the same image split up. I'm not completely sure I can see a reason here, but it does have a flow of composition that I like.

A couple of things; I'm not sure about your control of brighness - this shows up in a couple of other shots of your here. This one seems overall quite dull to me - the dynamic range of the shot could be broader - the diswtance betwen the bright and dark points seems narrow here. Of course, one would have to be careful not take things too far and turn the sheet into a blinding white blankness, but there is surely room for more brightness. That would, I think, suit the mood of your image better, also; it's a warm, family kind of feel I think, and some more punch to the image wouldn't hurt, surely?

I also wonder about the size and dimensions of your framing. Given the smallness of the required image anyway (especially as higher and higher resolution screens become more common), I think from a purely practical point of view you've probably used too much frame for the images, which leaves them feeling a touch cramped.

As to the idea - well, I'm not sure I can say much. It doesn't grab me, as many of the successful images here do, and nor does it particularly engage my brain - I don't find the variety of subject, or of processes in this that would fascinate in a photograph. Mind you, to produce such every week would be an impossibility - but I think it should be the aim, at least. There are sensible choices made here, certainly - framing the smaller feet with the larger works, the range of poses also. The light? Well, it seems a bit too general for this subject, perhaps; especially against a white background. Given the everyday nature of the subject, I would have thought a more sideways shaping light would have been effective, to absolutely make the most of the variety of forms you have.

The composition, overall, may be a bit too static also - the vertical orientation of all the feet is perhaps a bit too blank, especially given that the heavy framing only emphasises that.

Those are just some immediate thoughts - I am, of course, not representative of the site as a whole, only of my way of looking at things. Hope it's of some use.

Ed

Hearty Breakfast
by fire_and_ice

Comment:
Strange, certainly - odd not just in subject, but in presentation too: the off white balance, the strange focus, composition too. In one sense the oddest thing I've seen yet.

Odd Dice Wall
by lucienaw

Comment:
I'm kind of intrigued by some of the compositional decisions you've made here. Your cropping particularly - though this has the feel of a full frame. It doesn't really do much for me. The high-key work brings it so close to almost pure graphics that I don't see the interest.

"Window Panes..."
by tfarrell23

Comment:
Whilst this is certainly a [retty sunset, I don't fiond anything in it to particularly require the use of three frames, and, after all, it remains simply a sunset shot: not uncommon, not special, not particularly different. The tonality is good, the focus is good, and technically otherwise it's fine - but it's just a sunset, no?

Blown Away
by aznym

Comment:
This is certainly more interesting than most shots I've seen so far. There is some use made of the sense of progression through the three frames - a use and idea that seem to have passed most by. The neutral yet extreme contrast (I mean that sense of this being a grey-and-black composition) is quite evocative of a certain middle-european sense of lowering cloud, and this also carries with it a sense of the small areas of interest one finds in those flattened landscapes. There's a sophisticated eye here - particularly in that top frame, which has an unusual yet complex balance. I like this.

Another day in Paradise
by Jean

Comment:
It seems entirely arbitrary that this has been cropped into three frames - sure, that was the challenge and all, but does that framing ad anything to this scene? I cannot see it, if so. It would, I think, have been a pretty if fairly orthodox shot without that split. I was, and am, hoping for some genuinely adventurous use of the idea of presenting three frames together - some sense of progression, of the importance of the different scenes, rather than arbitrary division.

Opus Dei: Symphony in Rock
by LevT

Comment:
Dang, this is the third entry with the reversing of outside images trick. I don't get it, personally - it certainly provides symmetry, but adds little interest here.

Downtown
by justin_hewlett

Comment:
Nicely executed, your is obviously a sure hand. I don't think you found a subject that really made the most of the challenge though - this is just three buildings in the end, rather than containing any strong sense of historical pregression, or overall movement through frame.