Delivery Van, 1930's Style
by Qiki

Comment:
From the Critique Club:

This shot is very nicely done! I am impressed in how you captured the chrome details without blowing out the exposure. You have excellent lines and an awesomely simple color scheme. There is very little here that I don't like. The only thing that I can really think that would improve this shot would be to brighten it up just a touch. In advanced editing this could be done without blowing out the chrome.

Oh and with all that shiny chrome, I'm impressed that you or the camera are not in the shot! ;-)

Yours
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G R E E N 'L I F E'
by vikas

Comment:
Nice shot! GREAT TONES! Nicely composed. Don't get the connection to photojournalism...
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Triumph
by angela_packard

Comment:
Excellent shot! Great pose. Nice use of a prop to emphasise the models outfit. Don't see this as a photojournalistic image though...
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Remembrance
by jwillerton

Comment:
From the Critique Club:

There is very little about this shot that I don't like. So let's quickly go over what I do like in detail. First off, I love the fact that you left your models freckles and skin texture in the shot. There was really way to much neat image used in many of the shots entered into this challenge. Women (and men) really do have freckles, moles, birthmarks, pores and hair... Why do we as photographers insist on smudging them out of our images? Your focus here is spot on! Everything that needs to be in focus is acceptably in focus and your soft where a women is soft! Personally I like the fact that you chose to change this to b/w. B/W is a wonderful medium for the human form.

There are a couple of things that I don't like about this image. I'm not to sure about the crop. I think that it either needs to have more of her face included or less... I'm not sure which. I would need to see outtakes to truly decide on this matter. I don't think the choice of selective desat was the best one for this shot. I know that it has meaning to your and yours but to the world around you it's confusing. Why do you want me to look at your models necklace? Your model has an impression that goes around her neck. It looks like she was recently wearing a very tight necked blouse or t-shirt just before this shot. With the focal point of the shot (necklace) being so close to this crease in her skin it draws the eye to it. Cloning this out would have improved the shot or better yet, giving her time to let this impression smooth itself out would have been even better.

Why didn't it score better? I think you have gotten the answer already. You entered a basically black and white shot in a color themed challenge. You entered a portrait challenge with a shot that doesn't show your model's face. I know now and you know there is a story there, but it's not obvious to the voters. Because of these factors, a very nice shot got voted low. Believe me, it happens to all of us.

Very nice shot all around!
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Pikes Peak framed by a natural window - (using Wikipedia's def. of window - check it out)
by Rebecca

Comment:
I'm not going to mark you down for it, but I am very put of by your title. I don't need a definition of 'window' when voting...
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Serenity
by NstiG8tr

Comment:
Looks a little oversaturated/exposed for my taste...
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Ash
by stare_at_the_sun

Comment:
Too bad you cut off the left side of the circle... Woulda been damn near perfect then!
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Look who's come to visit?!
by Kita

Comment:
Isn't that a door? ;-}
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delicately trapped
by tate

Comment:
God I hate scoring this good for a water drop shot...
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Negative Goo
by carlomuscat

Comment:
Normally I would say your border is way overwhelming... This time I will just say overwhelming. Nice shot. Great tones. Works good with this theme.
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