Convolution
by sangeeth

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Critique Club Review:

Color, saturation and hue are excellent. Brightness, contrast and especially lighting are done quite well.

I like the way you have used the image as part of the border.

The colors and shapes are fantastic.

The only complaint I have about this picture is that it appears a bit grainy and pixillated in some areas. I would guess that the ISO 800 gave you the grain. Some of the edges along the highlighted curve appear rough or pixillated as if over sharpened or over processed.

Otherwise this is a wonderful photo and one I could see hanging in a gallery. Congratulations on a well deserved top 30 finish.

Off
by freakin_hilarious

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Critique Club Review:

Interesting photo...

Color, saturation and hue are very well done. I really like the red of the lens. It almost looks like some sort of berry.

I think I might have liked this better of the bumper of the car had either been cropped out, or rendered darker possibly even black. As it is, the minor highlights and shapes are a little distracting for me.

Focus and depth of field are excellent.

Alternatively, if your lens would have handled it, a much tighter photo would have worked well also. The one bump on the lens that has the highlights looks almost as if it is bursting or hatching. If this could have been the dominant feature of the photo, it might have been quite interesting as well.

Old Teeth
by baco99

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Critique Club Review:

Strictly speaking, this does not meet the definition of macro. Macro is usually understood as 1X to 10X life size. The point is made, because you probably lost points to purists.

This does come across as a nice abstract.

I think a little more depth of field and a tighter crop could have been helpful. As presented, I find the shadow and dark areas in the upper third of the picture a bit distracting. The "teeth" of this old beastie are the secret to this picture. Make the most of them.

I would also play with the saturation of the red. I don't know if it will help or hurt, I just see it as a possiblity.

I'd come back on a day with some sunshine and maybe just a few clouds. Polish the shiny areas of the grill, and capture some of that blue and clouds in the chrome. Then send it off to a car magazine and wait for the check. This photo has a lot of potential.

Planet Pod
by collie65

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Critique Club Review:

The image looks a little washed out. It is bright enough, but saturation of the colors is lacking.

Focus appears to be a little soft, it is hard to find a really sharp area in the image. Depth of field isolates the background well, but is so shallow that the subject itself fades in and out of focus as you look at it.

I don't know what ISO you used, it says 1/50 sec, which is the shutter speed. However, the background comes across as a little bit grainy.

This is a nice composition, and redone with sharper details, less grain, and a little more saturation of the colors, I could see this in a gallery or magazine ad.

Liquid Green
by Jaimeson

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Critique Club Review:

Interesting photo...

I would have to agree with klstover and say that you score might have suffered from the lack of an indicator as to the scale.

Only the bubbles in the glass or the jell, which aren't noticeable at first, give away the fact that is is not taken on a lake or the ocean. The blue appears to be a cloudy sky in a background blurred by a short depth of field.

I really like the color of the green and the shapes, the upper third of the frame serves as more of a distraction.

I don't know how much more room you had to work with, lower on the vase. However, the texture and shape of the green and more bubbles, if you could get them, might make for a very interesting abstract.

I spy with my little eye...
by Toadie

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Critique Club Review:

Any more macro, and this would have been micro.

Color, saturation and hue are excellent. Focus is good and depth of field holds up well. At this level of magnification it is hard to know if it could have been sharper. Some of your lower scoring voters may have taken softness of the structures as a softness of focus.

If this is a self portrait of your eye, you did a heck of job getting a capture this useable.

I like the red and the black. I might like it a little better, a little brighter. It almost borders on too dark for me. At the same time I like the deep black of the pupil against the iris.

I'm not a huge border fan, but I think a thin border here, using colors from the image might help also.

Excellent capture and I have no idea why you did not score better. Perhaps some people are squeamish about this much detail in a body part. I just don't know. I could see this hanging in a gallery, or used in a magazine advertisement.

Excellent photo, you should have been in or near the top ten with this one.

Emergence
by lil_mo

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Critique Club Review:

Color, saturation and hue are done well. Focus and depth of field are excellent.

A lighter background color might have been beneficial here. You have the nice clear glass and the brilliant blue. In comparison, the background almost looks a bit dingy.

I don't know if there was a way to emphasize the distortions, that some saw as marks, in the glass. If they were more pronounced you could see the top of the picture as connected to the blue in a sort of tornado effect. Otherwise, it might have been better to clone them out. (Permissable in this challenge as it is advanced editing.)

Alien skin and veins
by shamrock

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Critique Club Review:

Color, saturation, and hue are done well. Lighting, brightness and contrast are good also.

Definetly meets the challenge. It took a moment to figure out what this was.

I really like the texture of this photo. It is so intricate that it can hold the viewer's attention for a long time.

I do find the leaf veins below the main vein to be more interesting than the veins in the upper half of the picture. I would recommend shooting a little further down the leaf as I think the lower veins give more interest by being larger and more plentiful. The upper half, while interesting, does seem to have less detail.

I think also, that a complimentary border would have helped this picture.

Nice picture.

quicksilver
by xantangummi

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Critique Club Review:

Very interesting photo.

I think the depth of field tripped you up a bit here. The droplets on the right are nice and sharp. Those on the left are a bit soft. They make an interesting contrast, but not quite enough of a contrast to show that it is intentional.

I think it also hurts a bit that the largest drops, in the center of the image, are the softest. This is the area where the eye tends to go in a picture like this.

Lighting, brightness and contrast are done very well. This picture works so much better than it would have if it were done in a bunch of colors. Good job keeping it monochrome.

I also like your choice on the border. It does a nice job of complimenting the image, rather than competing with it.

feather
by roba

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Critique Club Review:

The image does come across as a bit soft. It makes it hard for the eye to stay at one spot in the image. (Which may have generated the moving comment.)

I really don't see a subject per-se. Don't mean there has to be one in an abstract challenge. Just a mention.

I think you did pick an interesting item to photograph, I do like the clean lines. I like the contrast too. In the areas where you can see through the feather, the background is a nice deep black. (Very nice)

About the only other thing I see is the border. It is a bit heavy in comparison with the lines of the feather. I would have liked either a thinner border, or better yet, a thin line in the middle of the border that was about the color and brightness of the feather.