Old Friends
by riot

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Just took a quick scroll through your port before returning to write your critique...Eugene, you have some very serious photo skills. I'm guessing that you're returning after a hiatus from here, ad if so, in advance, belated welcome back and hope you hang around!

Now onto the photo. High-key, as you've probably seen from the front-page top 5, is essentially all about the white and bringing out the details within it. This is a site populated by literalists and they vote accordingly - I saw where you were in the final standings and to quote Austin Powers, 'Ouch, baby. Very ouch.'

The presence of the heavy black Hendrick's bottle and the accents on the Kraken bottle pretty much knocks this out of the running in terms of high-key; true white and true black is acceptable in high-key, but only in very small quantities. This is a decent b/w image, but both comp and subject matter lack interest unless carefully lit and made compelling in some manner. The candles look flat and the flash shadow on the wall behind them.

Hope this critique has been of help, feel free to PM me,

Susan

Bubble Bath
by clickodak

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Marcel, lovely shot and I am glad I got this one to critique first after a few months away from the CC :-) The exposure is very good with only some slight blowout but not too much. The idea of flowers floating in bubble bath is excellent...but...the floating bar of Ivory soap with the logo showing, although it acts as ballast for the flowers in the shot at the lower right area, makes it look a little too commercial, like a soap ad :-/ Maybe if you had a flower with a different coloured centre, or left out the bar of soap altogether I think this would have been a definite top ten finish. Still 12/56 is very good.

Keep on shooting my friend!

Susan

Chicken
by Hipychik

Comment:
hahahahaa!

vertigo
by NiallOTuama

Comment:
uh-oh getting the dizzies

Audit???
by DCrest01

Comment:
Scary scenario!

Night Terror
by grahamgator

Comment:
love how effective this simple technique is, very well done.

Don't Leave Mrs. Wilson
by GolferDDS

Comment:
Hey! Quit traumatizing your patients! :-)

Full many a glorious morning have I seen
by Ammie

Comment:
What a way to make a comeback, Ammie! Lovely scenery and great model. Hope granddaughter gets a little something for helping you win! And of course congrats on the blue :-)

Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't - Macbeth
by grahamgator

Comment:
Lovely still life, great lighting. Only thing I'd change was have the skull facing the other way but that's a minor detail. Grats on the ribbon!

"And with what wing the kestrel checks at it!" Twelfth Night (Act ii. Sc. 5)
by hahn23

Comment:
Hehe love the kestrel screaming in at the redtail....those little guys are fast! Grats on the HM :-)