Primary Friends
by sagestudio

Comment:
Awesome shot. I like the "natural" look to it. Great use of the primary colors!

Fragile
by stephan

Comment:
CRITIQUE CLUB CRITIQUE
by karmat

Your right that this is a clear message, and it does have an emotive side. I won't address the things you mentioned, except to say that where the light is passing through the glass it is blue. And the edges of the glass are greenish. I like it though.

I think you may have been able to make it a bit more dramatic/mysterious/emotional by having it a touch darker. Now, I know that this is risky, because if a picture is the least bit dark, you will get 1001 comments about it. Having said that, maybe with softer lighting it wouldn't look quite so harsh. The bright light almost gives it a flat look. Where you using a diffuser or anything to soften the light?

Also, I think you could play around with the composition (though not too much, or you might cut a finger off!). Though the glass serves well to draw the eyes out from the heart, it is a bit too centered I think. Maybe you could have hinted at it being a heart by cropping some of it out of the frame, or by having the "center" of the glass somwewhere other than so close to the top of the heart. I understand that you may have been limited in your choice of placement, but these are just suggestions, that if possible, may have helped.

If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to PM me. Best to you in future challenges.

karmat

Walk on the Ocean Floor
by KimInNB

Comment:
CRITIQUE CLUB CRITIQUE
by karmat

I was going to mention the "postcardy" thing, but I see your reasons for not having it in your comments. As a result, I will comment strictly on the picture quality. (Note, I think it would make a nice postcard even without a "caption")

First of all, the lighting and focus on this is really good. The details in the rocks, water, and trees is visible and it has good clarity to it. I also like the different "layers" in the pictue. The water, then then rock structure, the the sky. It gives it a good solid feeling without being static, and the eye has several different things to look out without being overwhelmed. At first, I thought there was too much sky, but upon reevaluation, I think it balances nicely withe water.

The only thing I can suggest to improve this shot is to frame it a little more to the right so that more water, and less land, is showing. The shot looks cold to me, for some reason, but unless you are GOD, I don't think you can change that.

Very interesting. I imagine those big waves could be a bit intimidating.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to PM me. Nice work, and best to you in future challenges.

karmat

Boonton Falls
by ladpupmoe

Comment:
CRITIQUE CLUB CRITIQUE
by karmat

I really like the dramatic lighting in this. It helps to showcase the rocks and the rushing water well. It seems to be a touch overexposed on the water, but just a touch.I also like the vivid colors of the green around as well. The composition is effective in that the falls start going to the left then curves gracefully back to the right. This helps to lead the eye through the picture.

The telephone pole bothers me for several reasons, however. Since it is tilted, it gives the illusion that the entire shot is tilted because we associate poles with being vertical. Also, it gives the shot the feeling that this is a small waterfall in the middle of town that is rushing because of recent rain, or something. The pole just makes me think of a more populated section. If you could have framed so that the pole was not there, or cropped it out, I think it would have been more effective.

I don't know what settings you used, or if they could have been controlled, but if you could have used a slow shutter speed, and gotten a "smooth" looking waterfall, that would have been almost poetic, I think.

If you have any questions or comments please feel free to PM me!
Best to you in future challenges.

karmat

:Surrounded by primary colors:
by Anastasia

Comment:
Great focus and lighting. I think leaving the flower out would have worked better.

The Colors!
by Antithesis

Comment:
I like the colors here, and the strong vertical "motion" However, at the risk of sounding nitpicky, I do think it would have been more effective (for this challenge, anyway) to include only the primary colors adn not a wide spectrum. But that's probably just me.

Berry Delicious
by ladpupmoe

Comment:
Maybe pulling back a little more would help you to get more of they yellow and the focus on the berries would be stronger.

Primary Colors in the sky
by bcncrazy

Comment:
The colors are a little too muted to be fully effective, I think. Also, there doesn't seem to be any real composition or object of focus.

Yuck, this isn't Dandy!
by Sonifo

Comment:
hahahahahhha. I love this shot. I think it would have been even more effective for this challenge if the red had been a bit more prominent, or if she had on a red hat or something. Another awesome shot!

Confusion. Which Shall I Choose?
by GolferDDS

Comment:
Tylenol, definitely. :-)

Amend -- Great work on the composition. It has a strong, stable feeling to it. Two minor nitpicks. I think a tighter crop, even one that had the subjects "spilling" out of the frame would have been effective, and the border bothers me. Doesn't affect your "score" but I do think in this case it effects the overall effect of the picture. I find myself drawn to the yellow line instead fo the bottles.