Walk On By.
by catpixel

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club :)

Hi Catpixel :)

I'm not familiar with your song, but I think you did a great job of capturing the title for sure! The motion of the walker with the musician behind her works very well in this photo.

The only item that I see in this image that could be a technical problem is the blue cast. However, the blue cast seems to add to the 'wintery' theme of the cold weather quite nicely. Your white balance could also be used to correct this. It looks as if the white balance for this shot may have been set to an indoor lighting setting. This often causes blue cast in an outdoor environment.

Brighting up a dark image can also be accomplished by using a larger aperture. This, in your case, would have also caused a faster shutter speed which would have frozen the motion of your walker. I believe the motion blur in the walker is an important part of this image. Looking at your camera settings, I think that a manually exposed shot at F4.5 and 1/15" could have possibly given you the amount of light you were looking for...

Keep up the good work!

John Setler

Fly LIKE An Eagle
by Swashbuckler

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club :)

Hi Swash...

I think this is a very well composed image and it works nicely with your choice of song titles :) I actually like the centered composition of this particular shot. It seems to work very well and I can't see a better way to compose it myself.

I think this particular shot may have some room for improvement. The grain level is fairly high... possibly from a high ISO setting. I'm not sure what your exposure settings were since they are not posted with the image. If this is a LIVE bird, which it very well could be, getting a shot like this must have been very difficult, so setting manual exposures would not have been very easy at all. The overall image quality could be a lot sharper with a lot more saturation however. Digital Zoom also can create artifacting like this. I'm not sure what the source is here, but since the bird appears to be in the shade, it could be a combination of both digital zoom and ISO settings that your camera provided automatically.

Keep up the good work! I hope you decide to stick around with us :)

John Setzler

Lunada Bay
by daysez

Comment:
This is simply phenomenal... The composition and exposure is perfect... the silhouetted people really make this image pop. THAT is what i consider a 'single' element of a landscape photo that gives the eye a great place to come to rest... excellent work - tied for best of show for me with one other image :) = 10 - setzler

Bridge over Troubled Water
by svital

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club :)

On a first note, I really liked this image. I also think it would have been a very powerful image without the tree branches in the foreground. The bridge itself is very beautiful and would have made an excellent photo on its own :) The curves and snow highlights on this bridge are quite amazing in my opinion :) The lack of color saturation really creates a nice wintery feeling... cold... somewhat somber. The 'somber' aspect of this image ties in nicely with your song title as well :)

On the technical side, I am wondering why you may have chosen the camera settings you did. I don't know if you were trying to introduce grain with the higher ISO setting or not, but there is very little or no grain at all in the image. In a normal situation, ISO 200 on this shot may have given you a 1/100" exposure length which could have created a higher black/white saturation in this image? Not sure...

Great shot and keep up the good work :)

John Setzler

Mississippi Riverscape
by RiderGal

Comment:
This is lovely... I enjoy the way the sidewalk and lights leads me into the distance. the color contrast in the sky is also quite appealing :) = 10 - setzler

Dont Step On My Blue Swead Shoes
by Slimharpo

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club :)

Slim,

I understand your challenge interpretation here quite easily and I'm familiar with the song as well :)

The perspective you chose here could possibly be improved. The image doesn't carry a good sense of any 'depth' to the viewer. A lower camera angle would give a much better sense of depth here I think.

Compositionally, diagonals are usually more impressive as well... if you rotate the camera counter clockwise about 30 degrees, some nice diagonals would appear here :)

Keep up the good work :)

John Setzler

The Temperature Falls at Niagara
by warglory

Comment:
This is a stunning photo.. the capture of the rainbow in this image makes everything work so well.. that is such an intriguing single element for this landscape... I think that landscapes need some specific element of 'intrigue' to make them really pop out and you have captured that nicely here... great shot ! = 10 - setzler

Alaskan Landscape
by bdshort

Comment:
beautiful composition... the sun star and the puffy clouds work very well here.. The layering effect of the land and water is also very impressive.. = 10 - setzler

'Feeling Good' by Nina Simone
by Bukios

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club :)

This is a very powerful image... I really love the composition and framing that you chose to represent your song title. I'm not familiar with the song, but I can definitely 'feel good' simply by looking at the photo. I can feel 'warm and cozy' just by looking at this image.

The dark skin tones against the white linen provides GREAT contrast in this photo. The diagonal orientation of the arm also creates a very strong feeling in this photo.

The only room for improvement that I see here would have been to submit a larger photo. Personally, I would have used the full 640 pixels that are available for the height on this one. IMO, larger is usually better. This one is not too small as some are, but I still want to see more detail in this great image!

Keep up the great work.. I look forward to seeing more!

John Setzler

Canyon of the Mighty Waters
by magnetic9999

Comment:
very nice work! The lighting must have been a challenge on this particular photo, but you handled it very well. = 10 - setzler