Lady Scarlet McFluff the Purrrth
by JopsyDaisy

Comment:
Hard to believe this breed originated in Canada! Cool port though

Apollo
by PennyStreet

Comment:
Uhm looks like a pitbull...a breed I've not had many good experiences with sadly. Still a nice port.

Snowy
by Tiberius

Comment:
Let me guess....your owner's site name is Tiberius!

Leader of the Pack
by jerowe

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club! Good to see members returning after a hiatus.

This is a nice enough shot, well exposed with nice tones, but it's very static. The bg is a bit cluttery and the big leaf on the left is distracting, and the centredness of the main flower is just too safe for this shot to do very well. I am guessing you shot handheld; it may have been worthwhile to trot out a tripod and experiment with different exposure, bokeh etc.

Hope this has been helpful

Susan

Hey, Look up !!!
by clickodak

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Hehe, the minions are cute...and you got a TT with this, so congrats on that front! Hard to really nitpick here, though I might have personally heaped more leaves up top so the minion was just peeking through a hole in a wall of leaves. But your comp still works nicely so can't complain. Good use of the colour yellow to draw attention to the hiding minion. Maybe a tiny hit of contrast to the leaves in front to add a little bit of mystery?

Hope this has been useful,

Susan

complex simplicity
by Ecce_Signum

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

OMG I had forgotten that this was a Minimal challenge...and you want me to critique a ribboning shot? *eyeroll* no pressure...;-)

All I can say is, really beautifully done. Difficult to capture a shot like this before everything (eggyolk?) splatters all over the place. Don't mind seeing the slightly oof rim of the glass, though the purists will object to it. Love the lighting - hard to believe this is a 1-second exposure but then yolk is pretty thick and goopy so I suppose it's not unrealistic. Obviously it worked very well, everything is tack sharp. Love the faintly bizarre greenish tinges in the membrane of the stretched-out yolk, it adds a surreal feel.

And you won a suitably yellow ribbon to go with it, so well done!

Hope this has been useful

Susan

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower
by ArnaMarie

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Hmm it looks like other post-commenters have already picked out the best and worst of this shot so I really don't have anything new to add. I do agree that you mainly need a focal point, something to draw the eye; my eye is wandering looking for something. It's like seeing a set before the actors arrive. The sky is a bit bland. I would like to see the yellows pop a little more. The trees on the left could easily be cropped out as they aren't adding to the comp, they're just there.

As has been noted already, FS are by hardest the best to do well in as everyone enters something different. More weekly challenges where you are given more directions (usually anyway) may help.

Hope this has been useful

Susan

Eilean Donnain
by Pangurban

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Isn't this castle from either The Holy Grail or Princess Bride? Or both possibly; I've always enjoyed touring castles whenever I'm overseas. Anyway nice shot but I think it could use some work. I don't know if that great mat of yellowed vegetation in the bottom right does much for the comp; it's just there and partly swallowing the castle's reflection, and draws the eye away from the castle. I would love to have seen more of the ramp leading up to the castle from the right, but maybe there's just a huge carpark full of tour buses there :-) The light's a little dull but that's Britain for you. I think more contrast would have helped to add some drama.

Hope this has been helpful

Susan

Eilean Donnain
by Pangurban

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Isn't this castle from either The Holy Grail or Princess Bride? Or both possibly; I've always enjoyed touring castles whenever I'm overseas. Anyway nice shot but I think it could use some work. I don't know if that great mat of yellowed vegetation in the bottom right does much for the comp; it's just there and partly swallowing the castle's reflection, and draws the eye away from the castle. I would love to have seen more of the ramp leading up to the castle from the right, but maybe there's just a huge carpark full of tour buses there :-) The light's a little dull but that's Britain for you. I think more contrast would have helped to add some drama.

Hope this has been helpful

Susan

Ice world
by Gudjonotto

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Why this image did not finish in the top ten is beyond me. Good composition with all kinds of interesting things to see like the iceberg to the right, fantastic spill of the Milky Way across the sky, their reflections in the water.

There is some noise in the water but when you're shooting at ISO 3200 for 30 seconds esp on a surface that is moving...sometimes the voters here seem to have unrealistic expectations, in that they want everything to be perfectly tack-sharp.

Anyway I really can't find anything that wrong with this pic and you did finish well, so good work overall.

Feel free to pm me

Susan