rlinn3
by freakin_hilarious

Comment:
great portrait!

Lightning across the lake
by eac

Comment:
I like the muted pastel colors. Even the lightning is pastel! The composition is okay, but not very interesting. I wish the lightning had worked harder for you and made some interesting shapes! :)

Synchronicity
by Qiki

Comment:
greetings from critique club

I love the goofy but intimate way he's looking at you! And I like the up-close composition. the background paddler is distracting, though. I would have probably given this a 5, but only because I think sports shots are boring... which is why I didn't vote.

amazing you don't have more noise at iso800. well done! and that Pentax must be a great camera.

Stealing Is Wrong
by phirewire

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

There's sort of a vintage feel here, since old baseball cards and such sometimes had a little wacky colorization in it, and the green and grey are a pleasant combination. The composition is not very interesting, though. Nothing much is happening and what is happening is out of frame. The third baseman is standing on the first baseman's head. A prominent position is given to the ball boy in the background, but he's not doing anything interesting, and his head disappears into the bleachers.

Barry Bonds - 744
by tennernie

Comment:
Greetings from Critique Club

I like how small the players are, but from the title you can tell what everyone's doing: watching destiny as home run 744 flies out of the park. DPC, however, doesn't like tiny, which explains your low score. And some of the comments imply that you got low scores from people who don't like Barry Bonds. That's not very fair to you.

The colors are nice, the composition works, but it doesn't have a lot of interest because I've seen this photo a hundred times before. the best thing about it is what I said above, the interaction with the title. You achieved your stated goal.

Throw from Third
by mpreslar

Comment:
Greetings from Critique Club!

It's a nice capture, you caught the moment at just the right time. Your shutter speed and DOF work well. And you have a decent score as a result.

To do even better would probably require a better composition. I like the fence and how it is composed, but the houses in the background, and the ball being right on the door of one of the houses, are more distractions than anything else.

I know it is VERY difficult to control such things, but one trick is to set up and compose a shot before the action starts and then hope the action ends up there.

changing of time
by unknowndeath

Comment:
Greetings from Critique Club

I don't get any sense of an event from this photo, which probably explains your low score. The photo itself has an interesting composition, and I like the acid-washed earth tones.

I do feel like it's trying to tell me something, though, and I can't figure out what it is. Your title is lost on me.

S A F E
by tryals15

Comment:
Greetings from Critique Club!

Slide like an Egyptian! I've noticed that one way to succeed with a tightly cropped, centered subject is to have that subject create an interesting shape. Your nephew solved this problem for you! He is positioned perfectly, with every limb akimbo at a different angle. There is a little room on the left, but that is balanced by the bat.

The extreme unction of his position is emphasized by his marvelous expression. Eyes are not needed, the mouth says it all. His head even lines up with the line of grass. It's just a perfect photo. It would have gotten at least a 7 from me, probably higher. I love how this is a post-action capture instead of the usual mid-action capture. You have captured that lost, floating moment after the goal is achieved, when the athlete has forgotten what he was doing and is unsure if he's succeeded. All he knows is his own exhale from the breath he held during his exertion.

Exhausting culture
by griz210

Comment:
I love this. It looks like a b/w reproduction of a detail of a 19th century painting.

Message edited by author 2007-05-16 00:08:03.

BW-pinebough.jpg
by JerseyGenie

Comment:
it looks completely different in b/w. Nicely seen!