The Coastline
by sfalice

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

As already noted by a commenter, this really does draw the viewer far and away. Love the big dominant sky and the high super-white clouds, though none look bleachy, always a plus. Then the well-seen stagger of rocks/cliffs coming towards the viewer from the bottom right, and that great final wedge of red sandstone helps seal the deal by tying together the dreamy blue of the sky, the denser blue-purple of the water and the little hint of green in bottom right. Nicely done!

Susan

You can go Forever from here
by jayzundel

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

This is an inversion? Never would have guessed. Very good exposure, composition looks a tiny bit top-heavy with the clouds, but the darkness of the trees at the bottom helps balance it out somewhat. Good conversion to b/w, some true black there in the trees and I see some pure white in the clouds but no vast bleached-out areas, with lots of great toning in between the two. Don't see any noise, and cropping it further wouldn't help in a wide-open spaces challenge. I certainly think it should have scored higher, very sorry that it didn't.

Still, it's a good shot, I do hope you keep entering!

Susan

Iceland - as far as you can see
by Bennih

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

First off, congrats on the Top Ten finish. Lovely scene, looks so cold - and I live in Canada so I know cold! Great capture of tones of blue and grey, and that white glacier looks so pristine. Great use of the available light and composition. Really can't fault this pic, but I am wondering why shoot so quickly for a landscape, unless you shot handheld.

Anyway please continue to enter and keep up the good work!

Susan

Aurora rainbow
by Gudjonotto

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Lovely mashup of images, trying to tell which ones are which, as the Aurora Borealis/rainbow looks really plausible :-) Glad to see this did well, but I think it only didn't do better because there are many great elements here all competing, not one of them is truly dominant over all the others. The track on the left in the frozen field, the mountain, rainborealis, and heavily starred sky force the viewer's eye to seek out just one element to rest on. It's just too cluttery. A little more colour pop would help too.

Hope this helps and please keep up the good work,

Susan

Majestic Aurora Borealis
by shadowdoc31

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

I gave this a 7 during voting, it's a lovely shot with the AB doing its thing - not often that we see them in Southeastern Ontario!

Very nice comp, great colours and I lived in NW BC at one point so I can feel my nose hairs freezing looking at this. But I can also tell straight off that you used a tripod, difficult to get that amount of detail without one. Colours are great, but the big bugaboo with long exposures at night is noise, and if you're not careful the NR software used may remove noise - but then create an effect that is borderline over-sharpened, and sadly other photog moving around didn't help much; though he does add a sense of scale, it may have been best to just clone out him and leave his tripod ;-) I think that's why it finished relatively low.

Pleaser keep up the good work and keep on entering! Feel free to PM me with any questions.

Susan

Golden Flight
by Phocal

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Glad to see that I gave you a 6 for this. Taken at sunrise...now that's dedication! And you got that wicked gorgeous golden light to shoot in. Like you I'm a big fan of using relatively little pp, and am glad you used only global adjustments.

Having said that, I do wish that right third had been cropped out...those weeds, and that long straight piece of grass, are in sharp focus and are competing with the bird for the focal point here, as they are so dark and dominant and the bird is leavin in a hurry. That's the hard part when shooting little birds, they are so skittish and fast.

Still, a very nice pic and glad it finished well, so be proud of it :-)

Susan

Shooting food remains
by hajeka

Comment:
Very Dr Seussian :-)

lulu and her pet crow
by MeMex2

Comment:
love the tortie! Is that a mural? If so maybe I should hire you to paint one here :-)

Being replaced am I?
by Tiberius

Comment:
Poor Snowy! :-(

Narcissism
by gyaban

Comment:
Brilliant as always! Grats on the blue :-)