Exquisite
by swallace

Comment:
Greetings from the critique club

WOW! If I had taken my watercolors and splashed around, I'd be proud if I got this result.

Incandescent was the way to go to both make a nice image and please the voters. Congratulations on a nice placement in the Challenge.

One of our missions in the Critique Club is to offer suggestions on how to make your image better. Can't do that with this image, so just take this note as another appreciative look, and continue to bask in the incandescent sunlight. Nice one.

Alice

Diablo
by Johnnyflash

Comment:
Greetings form the Critique Club

Love it!

YOu have an original take on the Challenge that was quite well rewarded by our voters. Composition is excellent; technique, as far as I can tell, is just fine. My first impression on seeing the shot - and this is important, I suppose for our fast voters - was that the shot was a little hot.

But then, I stopped to think, "well, yeah! It's likely to be a little hot isn't it! How many degrees is that furnace, anyhow?"

So, the only offering I have to make is one you probably have already thought of: Bracket those shots. Try different ISOs, try different apertures, etc. etc. Experiment.

Oh, heck. You're doing fine. Keep up the good work.

Alice

White Poppy
by pointandshoot

Comment:
I did the best I could with this image in the scoring. It is excellent, with fine placement on the page, superior lighting and excellent subject matter. You had strong competition which must have been the only reason this isn't in the top three.

Keep up the good work.

Alice

White Tulip
by PhilipDyer

Comment:
Very nice image, Philip. Congratulations on your score and placement.

Carapace
by shamrock

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Shamrock, very nice image you have here. And it scored comparatively well in this competitive crowd. Keep up the good work.

I've studied your very good specimen carefully and really like what you have done to 'imortalize' the creature. I'm glad you found a way to secure the critter so you could get a good image. Since it was just the shell, you could have taken the easy way and just picked the rosemary and brought him to a sheltered area. You did it the hard way and that earns extra points in my book.

Since this was a bokeh challenge, I'm going to be a little unorthodox here and suggest (after looking at this on my screen in many different cropping angles) that you might look at this again and crop say 1/8th to 1/4 of the image on the right left, ooops, I meant to say left! side. It still leaves plenty of bokeh/background, but it does concentrate on that very well defined carapace. Do you like it better? Maybe so? Maybe not?

About the only other idea for changing (not necessarily improving) your image would be to play around with lighting so the underside of the carapace has a bit more light play.

All this is beside the point. YOu have a good image and it scored well.

Message edited by author 2006-07-12 00:28:44.

Apiaceae
by undieyatch

Comment:
delicate, nice.

Sunflower
by asu_rower

Comment:
YOu found a great specimen of sunflower. Unfortunately, the background is a bit busy for the blossom. Maybe a little less depth of field. Then, that white stick, well, needs to be someplace else...
;>)
Still, a nice effort.

Yesterday's Poppy
by hideout

Comment:
nice interpretation of the challenge

Tandem Two
by banmorn

Comment:
Great colors. NIce composition that fills the frame.

e x o t i c a
by RKT

Comment:
lopvely colors, nicely photographed.