For Sale: Previously Loved Chair Needs Good Home
by cutlassdude70

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

First of all, let me congratulate you on getting twelfth place in this challenge, well done.

I'll be honest I gave this a 6. Probably I was hovering between a 6 & 7, but I think the blown out highlights did spoil it a little bit, so I ended up with a 6.

The HDR is very well done, but has left the image with a slight soft feeling, as one of the commenters noticed.

Overall I think this a good photo for the challenge. How lucky that you happened upon it within the right time frame.

Sarah

ovrly #23 'calla'
by blad

Comment:
Love the whole presentation. Very beautiful

spiked
by Jutilda

Comment:
Lovely light and the composition is wonderful.

Through The Weeds
by JeniY

Comment:
Lovely overlay effect. They look so carefree

by nixter

Comment:
Loving the light

Whispers
by luvmyaussie

Comment:
I don't get tired of pears as shot by you Amy! And I predict a ribbon for you in the new Still Life challenge :) Love this

RETIREMENT!
by Ecce_Signum

Comment:
Way to go Andi. I must have been asleep this week, didn't realise you were sitting on such a high score.

Adirondack backs
by snaffles

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

As a member of the critique club, I guess you are aware how hard it is sometimes to provide adequate insight for the photographer. I will try to give some guidance & useful comments.

Conceptually I think this is a good photo and it clearly meets the challenge.

However, from a technical point of view I think it misses a bit due to the very blown out highlights in the sky. I appreciate how difficult it is to control the sky when the weather is so blah, but I do think as this was an advanced editing challenge, you could possibly have improved the sky considerably. Simplest would have been to just select the sky (using the lasso tool), feather the selection and then using a levels adjustment layer darkened the sky slightly. I do think this would have made a world of difference in your score.

I think you could have improved on the composition a little, although that may depend on how much space you had to the left. It feels a bit cramped in the frame, so maybe an uncropped version would work better?

I'd love to see this with the sky looking better, so if you get the chance, I hope you post a re-edit.

Sarah

Cruising
by Germaine

Comment:
Fantastic. It looks like a picture from a 1950s magazine or something like that. I love it.

Faded Glory
by Jedusi

Comment:
Steve, this is lovely. What wonderful detail in the rose.