Boats await to take you to the Sun
by meetsreekanth

Comment:
::: Critique Club :::

Hi, my name is Kari and from the critique club. Congratulations on your first entry. WOW you did really well.

First Impression - the most important one:
Ok your commentators are right ... a slight rotation would have fixed the horizon ... it really does bug people when this is not done.

Composition:
Once the horizon dealt with the image would nicely play on the thirds lines ...

Subject:
Well it does meet the challenge in a unique way ...
Technical (Colour and light):

To grow its vote?:
Always take the time to straighten ... and always take the time to consider what other people may pick on in an image ... this helps out ... trust me :)

Summary:
Congrats .. great first challenge ... waiting to see more of yours!

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Cheers

Kari

Living Underground
by RyShu

Comment:
::: Critique Club :::

Hi, my name is Kari and from the critique club.

First Impression - the most important one:
This is a pleasant cementary shot ... a solid entry in the stock photo.

Composition:
The leading lines as mentioned by the commentators are nice ... but that is all. Trying out diffrent depths of field ... and seeing how changing the aperture and ISO settings could be fun ...

Subject:
Meets the challenge but it just isn't enough for this shot people are looking for something different ... picking one headstone to focus on ... one of interest .. a little quirky perhaps ... using DOF to make things nice and blurred .. that sort of thing.

Technical (Colour and light):
A little washed out .. playing with contrast and reducing brightness helps with this.

To grow its vote?:

Find a focus ... pick on the unique ... I think people were expecting cemetaries .. but this just didn't tickle the fancy.

Summary:

Its a 'nice' image ... well done.

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Cheers

Kari

Can you see me scream?
by dube140463

Comment:
::: Critique Club :::

Hi, my name is Kari and from the critique club.

What a pleasure to review and critique your image ... Third challenge and top 20 already.

First Impression - the most important one:
This is so cool .. I loved it when I voted on it and looking at it closer .. yup still like this one.

Composition:

I like the way that this is framed ... For my tastes it is a little working on the centred .. but this may not be able to be helped.

Subject:
It definately meets the challenge ... I think it is acutally quite a clever find something like this in nature.

Technical (Colour and light):

I might have worked the contrast a little more to see what else could be brought out. I like the natural light of course ... but taking the shot at different times may also give different perspectives.

To grow its vote?:
You did so well .. congrats .. I am not sure about how to grow this one .. but continue playing and learning.

Summary:
Fantastic find and great shot!

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Cheers

Kari

Female nature
by Nuno

Comment:
::: Critique Club :::

Hi, my name is Kari and from the critique club.

First Impression - the most important one:`
This is an interesting image. I didn't like it much personally - but that is only personal opinion. Then again the title adds nothing to the image - I don't know a sign woman who points at her nipple in that way and calls it nature.

Composition:
The hand cupping the beast worked well the other finger pointing at the nipple did not. I nfact I could not think of a single reason for it to be there apart to state the obcious and most people don't really need that.

Subject:
Interesting choice of subject it met the challenge well. It is quite lacking in detail and this may be due to the high level of compression of the image down to 91000 bytes. The Maximum on this site is well above that at 150 kbs

Technical (Colour and light):
The lighting is fine - the focus as mentioned by others is a bit too soft - I would almost say out of focus. I am not sure that this image benefited fully from being black and white.

To grow its vote?:
Well you didn't get the brown ribbon .. that went right down the toilet - so I think that a sharper focus may help here. Also a more nurturing take on the image of the breast would possibly be a good call.

Summary:
Not bad - you have taken a lot of way better shots - but you have taken a concept and worked it through - didn't do great - but you have good advice and voter comment to take on board if you wish to re-try.

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Cheers

Kari

Why ride when I can fly?
by bandit

Comment:
The 'go kiwi' s not only for the commonwealth games!!! Congrats on the blue!

Molecular Realms
by crazedfost78

Comment:
Pretty picture with little relevance in my eyes to education.

Photo/Darkroom Tuesday Morning
by cwalmye

Comment:
The is so out of focus it is distracting.

Dreams of NASA
by rebs138

Comment:
You could have left untitled and it would have matched the image better ... in this picture the title is totally distracting.

The Monet of beer!
by parrothead

Comment:
Interesting choice for education. The picture on viewing is distracting for not being rotated to be straight - the candles add nothing to the picture - or the picture should be of the candles - I also can not figure out how a can of beer works for education - unless you are training people young on how to become an alcoholic.

The Bad Apple
by Rikki

Comment:
LOL