Bougainvillea ~ Flamingo
by Ja-9

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Lovely comp, nice leading lines and sharp pop of colour on an otherwise subdued spray of blossoms. Some bleachiness creeping in but not an overwhelming amount. Maybe a little more saturation? Just bash the voters over the head with more colour and contrast?

Hope this helps

Susan

Bougainvillea ~ Flamingo
by Ja-9

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Lovely comp, nice leading lines and sharp pop of colour on an otherwise subdued spray of blossoms. Some bleachiness creeping in but not an overwhelming amount. Maybe a little more saturation? Just bash the voters over the head with more colour and contrast?

Hope this helps

Susan

It Burns
by dtremain

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Great fire shot, I sure hope this was a controlled burn. Nice comp and great exposure, shooting fire can be quite difficult esp in daylight! Problem is, as voters have noticed, it's the fire stealing the show from those reeds. This site is so literal...*sigh*

Hope this helps

Susan

Trees in Perth
by johnbrennan

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Yeah, flowers are kinda done to death, and trees definitely count as flora. Main problem here is lack of cohesive compostion, and the lighting looks like high noon or close to, which always makes getting a good shot difficult as shadows are hard and dense and the light very harsh and white. Shooting later in the day, or at sunrise, would have resulted in a vastly different quality to the light here.

I'm intrigued by the trees with no or little bark on them - up here, trees in that situation are basically dead! m Meanwhile please keep shooting and entering.

Susan

Moss Heaven
by CameliaM

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

I spent almost 7 years living in BC - Vancouver and Terrace - so thought this probably was a redwood stump with all that moss and lichen on it. I like the idea you're going with but you have major technical issues to deal with. Mostly the composition is boring - it's a mossy stump. There's nothing to grab the eye, no real focal point.

The high ISO means you have some detail in the stump, but also blows out the snow and washes out the colours. That's a major no-no. The aperture is only f5.6 which probably isn't nearly enough for a stump this size, and the shutter speed is too fast. I see you're using a kit lens, so get a tripod. Go back. Shoot at your lowest ISO, make the aperture much smaller and increase the shutter speed to, say, 2.5 seconds. Go from there!

Susan

Chrysanthemums
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Hehe and here is Bear showing off his focus stacking skillz...;-) Grats on the blue Robeart!

Queen Of Constellations
by Hipychik

Comment:
What, your first blue?! Can't believe it! I love those basket-y type thingies, they have such a great shape to them. Great work, congrats!

Erythronium oregonum
by tnun

Comment:
Wow lookit you Ms RibbonHawg! Lovely pic, very trippy, very SSI ;-) The inversion worked fantastically well here. Huge congrats on the ribbon!

Problem Solving with Pi
by clickodak

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Hey Marcel, I am so glad that you are not just learning new techniques, but doing so well with your newfound knowledge too :-) Good composition, nice tack-sharp elements that don't compete with each other and yes, very good use of focus stacking!

Keep up the good work my friend

Susan

Cylon Raider
by Phocal

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Congrats on the top ten finish, for one! At first I was a little dubious about this pic with the vast amount of oof stuff in the foreground, but it does help to sell the nicely tack-sharp focus on the Raider. Good detail and going from the comments more than a few other people appreciated the sci-fi element you saw and ran with here. Good work, keep it up!

Hope this helps

Susan