POOOOOOOT!
by dadas115

Comment:
It's eye catching, but I am not sure what the title means, nor the relationship to scents and aromas. Thre seems to be a fair amount of noise, and the hi-key approach is a bit disorienting here. I can't tell if the frog is standing or jumping or what!

Road Signs Never Lie
by wwjdwithca

Comment:
I saw your comment about this and I thought I would offer my 2 cents worth of feedback.

Artistically, the photo is good. This is despite at least one significant technical flaw, the bright overexposed sky (which may be totally fog, one can't easily tell here, as the bleeding of the overexposure into the trees could also just be the spread of the fog.) I really like the way you've composed it, just in terms of aesthetics.

However, the message doesn't really come through here. I see a sign, which says icy. I presume you are near a bridge (issue: there's no context for us here), but at the very least, I don't see desert (which would be funny). I really couldn't tell where it was, nor can I tell what the white marks are on the sign (either ice or pock marks). I looked at this a while when I voted, not sure if that was ice. Given the white tops of the branches of the tree just below right of the main part of the sign, and the white-ish color of the grass, I actually presumed this was ice/frost. And living in the northeast I am no stranger to frost.

Whereas I think you particularly liked this because you saw a contradiction, at least I don't see it, which lessens it's appeal somewhat. I felt it was fair to consider it a valid entry, as I could see a government program to convince us of the importance of believing road signs. But I don't think this image supports such a propaganda effort (nor one to the contrary even, again because of it's ambiguity).

Hope this helps you understand a different perspective on an image--something important here. I haven't been here long either, but I believe understanding how your photos are interpreted by other people is one of the values here. And by the way, I gave you an average score on this.

Weapon of Mass Destruction
by e301

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club:

A well done image, with good tones, contrast and lighting. Composition is also very good.

Perhaps the most critical I can be of this image, is simply that of subject: it doesn't stand on it's own. I understand you took it for the challenge, and that may be enough. Beyond that, I'm not sure where it's going: It's not recognizable by most (actually, at first I thought it was a carburetor!), yet its not really an abstract by most definitions (or at least mine: having stronger form or pattern focus than it is a pictoral representation of the object). And from a pure aesthetics, it's probably not something that I would hang on the wall.

But it's a very good capture for what it is and what you were using it for.

Garlic
by Havok

Comment:
Very nice close up; good colors and detail. DOF seems right.

Aroma is inspired by nature
by ramevi

Comment:
Lovely flower; it's a nice, unusual composition, though the angle might be more dynamic I think. You might watch your histogram for overexposure in the future, though I suspect this was a hard flower to photograph! Harder still, it would be nice to have a bit more shadow detail on the leaf.

burnt
by GinaRothfels

Comment:
Nice clear shot. Good comp too.

Support OUR cause now! The enemy could do this to YOUR son too!
by SoulHunter74

Comment:
A good image, I like an alternate title: "Stiop Terrorism Now - We are all victims". I like the comp but perhaps there's too much space.

America, 2003
by muckpond

Comment:
Good social commentary; very accurate propaganda! Perhaps it should be titled: Stop Free Speech in America (as a propaganda piece), or "No Free Speech in America", as a propaganda/commentary.

Smoking is Dead Sexy
by TechnoShroom

Comment:
Great idea, good dramatic capture. Would have liked to see a cigarette in his mouth. I am sure you tried it and maybe it wouldn't hold. Love the smoke from the skull though.

Shed Some LIght on the Subject, Read!
by sagestudio

Comment:
Well done. This might be a good one for soft-focus if you want to experiment later!