Inner Conflict: Battling Despair
by mocabela

Comment:
An excellent composition and exposure, good choice of B&W. Some minor hot spots on upper forehead, but but IMHO the main problem is simply that your neatimage settings are too high, giving the skin a plastic look rather than just clean of noise. Also, you can see signs of oversharpening by the lashes and eye brow.

1887 Granite
by cbeller

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club:

Hits: This is a well composed natural gradient photo. The exposure looks about right. Sharpness is good and there isn't much noise. The overall tones have fine aesthetics.

Misses: Texture is downplayed here in the stone at this angle and with this light. The granite looks is pretty smooth, so it's really the engraving, the overall shape of the stone, and the clouds that represent surface texture here. And the engraving is not even very visible here.

Ideas. Perhaps another source of light from an assistant angled onto the stone would have brought out the engraving. I think a perspective shift might have made it more dynamic as well: perhaps you could have captured the stone angling on the diagonal of the shot, with an even sharper perspective. Or found a stone with a broken off area so an unsmoothed area of the granite were visible.

Nice picture overall!

Shaggy
by neilmwilson

Comment:
I didn't have a chance to comment on this during but I think it's a beautiful shot. I like the composition, colors and textures! I thought it was going to do much much better!

Dog Nose
by qwerty_314

Comment:
Excellent lighting and good choice of b&w here!

Terraces
by bobgaither

Comment:
Very nice! Good abstract. The effect works well, but or some reason it seems unclear (maybe just jpeg/resolution issues.)

Tree Bark curls
by Yugioh

Comment:
Nice texture but the lighting in the foreground distracts--almost looks like flash, whereas the light in the background is dull. To me the tree bark is the star here in the background, such interesting contrast of texture.

Showin' a Little Leg
by MrsFuzzButt

Comment:
Nice, but why no head? I think if cutting the head off, perhaps I would have cropped even closer and that would give a bigger shot here with enlarged texture.

Sponge
by MissLafay

Comment:
Good idea! I think it might have been better even closer though, and perhaps with some color to punch it up (though if really close, B&W might have shown stronger contrasts/textures IMHO.)

Wooden Lady
by oksamit

Comment:
Good subject; generall well captured, however, a polarizer might have gotten rid of the reflections and then you could have captured the nice wood texture (or you might have gone in the store).

Homemade Houska - A Family Tradition
by WildflowerJoy

Comment:
Nice textures! Iit appears to be a bit oversharpened via USM