By the lake
by lionelm

Comment:
~~~~Critique Club Comment~~~~

Composition (content)
Nice abstract image. An original approach on reflections from water. The result of the ripples distorting the already curved tree and tree branches is very nice.
The composition is very interesting. There is a kind of double antithesis in it (right vs left). You've got two fat trees on the right and two thinner ones on the left. The fat ones carry a lot of branches, where the thinner ones don't and leave room for a refreshing blue sky. The right side say's old and the left side young (young trees reaching for the bright blue sky, where the old ones try to prevent the growing of young ones by taking away the light).
Could also be cause by your position in relation to the trees and they might all be equally old, but the result remains the same.

Background
Good use of reflection.

Camera Work (Technical)
Good choice of aperture, the scene is a subject as a whole, so it need to be in the field of focus as a whole.
Good choice of shutter to avoid motion blur by the moving water.
Good exposure, reflections sometimes fools the meter.
Good focus and sharpness.

(Don't have a clue if you have control over those with an S30)

Digital Processing (technical)
No comments.

My opinion
Original. Nice idea.

Lematoe Juice
by Sonifo

Comment:
~~~~Critique Club Comment~~~~

Composition (content)
Good composition, it builds up to the tomatoe by the use of several composition tools.
* The lemons in front seem to point at the tomatoe and create an angle that leads into the frame.
* All the lemons optically seem to form a mountain with the tomatoe on top.
* The creative use of aperture works out perfect, only the area where the tomatoe is in seems to be in the field of focus, and the tomatoe is pin sharp.
* The color contrast between the tasteful (this looks like a healty, ripe tomatoe and those are tasteful) red of the tomatoe and the nice saturated yellow of the lemons is excellent.
* good choice of background, see item on that.

So any other composition rule like the rule of thirds is out of the question here, it wouldn't add anything.

The drops of water on the tomatoe are a nice touch, combined with the excellent lighting it just wants to make you grab it and prepare it to eat it. :)

Background
The background is a boring color/grey, you don't want to look at that, because the foreground is more interesting. Choosing color would have taken something away from the red/yellow balance that makes this picture so appealing to the eye. Black or white would be distracting in my opinion.

Camera Work (Technical)
Good use of aperture, excellent exposure, good focus and sharpness.

Digital Processing (technical)
The saturation is very good, sharpness good.

The image could be saved at a higher quality level, because it is only 55kb of the 150 allowed. That would improve the grain/noise in the background as it seems visibly affected by jpeg compression. It would also take away the jpeg noise around the greens on top, a much smoother relation between background and foreground. It doesn't distract here, but it is something to keep in mind.

I personally don't like the big black border. The color is not in balance with the image and it is also big in relation to the image. I'd like a thin line more than this. (It seems to be very dark green btw, taken from the shadow area of the stem of the tomatoe I guess)

My opinion
Very good.

Message edited by author 2003-01-19 09:50:20.

Alaskan Landscape
by bdshort

Comment:
Nice how all the lines work in this image. Good job on the still very bright sun, beautiful sky an interesting reflection.

The Strong, Silent Type
by indigo997

Comment:
I like the compostion, but probably because of the time of year the rest of the frame lacks really interesting bits. Good exposure.

Reflection
by Hotshot132

Comment:
Nice composistion. Creative and good job on the light.
Would have cropped the upper 1/5th part of tough.

In the Mendip Hills
by Konador

Comment:
Very good composition witht the three in the lower left and the sun in the middle right corner. Beautiful subject, wonderful colors.

Viewpoint
by moondoggie

Comment:
Nice photo.
The river (?) looks interesting with those whites in it, nice background with hills in a haze. The composition is pretty strong with the use of the building at the right. It draws the eye away from the road beneath and holds the view on the middle and upper part of the image. It needs the road part of the river valley beneath, because it creates the sense of standing on an edge.
Good focus, sharpness and esposure.

On a clear day...
by decoteau

Comment:
Classic city silhouette. Nice.

Silhouette at sunrise.
by Marklane

Comment:
I love the compostion of this and the light is wonderful. Beatiful scene, well captured. I guess it must have been some work, seems like a remote place and light like that is something you only get at sunrise and at sunset. :)

Well done!

The Hill In Infrared
by Davenit

Comment:
I never liked infrared photography, but this is really nice. Very sharp, almost unreal. It makes me think of the scenery of my old model-railway. :)