Boronia Ledifolia & Bee Fly
by roz

Comment:
One of my tens!!!! You rock with your insects! Well done, well deserved!

PINK!
by Lette

Comment:
HI from the C Club

Nice shot, I just critques your Dad's shot on this!!

This is a nice shot, you have very good strong pinks going on here.

yo have a good focus on the flower, very sharp and clean with good lines. The only thing is it is a little over saturated so it is looking a tad blown out.

Your glass is tilted, so that needs straighteneing out.

Overall a good solid shot, well done

Blender
by pfx_photo

Comment:
HI from the C Club

you asked for an in depth comment on your shot for this challenge.

Interesting shot.

You have the right idea going on here. Your shot is fairly static though. Having another interesting thing going on would have helped, i.e something dripping off the end of the beaters.

Your focal point is at the top of the mixer, which is slightly dirty and being in focus does not help. try focusing on the beaters.

Your colour is a little grey in this shot. an adjustment in exposure, brightness and contrast in photoshop would have eliminated this.

a crop off the bottom would have filled the frame with the beaters and having the other beater in may have been more been a better POV.

I think this is an interesting angle and you should re shoot this, just to play with it. Well done

Whats cooking?
by keriboi

Comment:
HI from the C Club

you asked for an in depth comment on your shot for this challenge.

This is a hot shot!

You scored fairly well with this shot, well done.

I think it would have placed higher if you had had a more interesting angle to it. The right hand side is a little burnt out (ha ha) on your reflection of whatever is dried out underneath the burner. The rule of thirds would have made a good shot for this.

In post processing, not sure if there is anything else that you could have done, a different crop, but you are sharp and clean, the colour is great and gives the illusion of begin very hot.

well done

i think i NUKED it too long!
by apercep

Comment:
HI from the C Club

you asked for an in depth comment on your shot for this challenge.

Very clever idea!!!

Your idea is an excellent one, just needs a little tweaking. The challenge description reads that it is for an appliance, granted you have the appliance in your shot, but without reading you title it would be hard to know that that was your main subject. This could have been avoided with a little more light on the subject. I know that you wanted the 'milk' to stand out, so some back lighting of the microwave would have worked here.

Your photo is also tilted, so combining that with the darkness almost makes it looks like it is floating. In post processing maybe playing with the exposure and a bit with the curves may have brought out a little more of the microwave. Your 'milk' is very sharp and the lines are crisp and clean

Excellent idea and shot though

to the last drop - the perfect mug of coffee
by marxus

Comment:
Hi from the C Club,

You asked for an indepth review of your shot in a challenge.

This is a good shot, I see that you specifically asked about teh 1-2's votes and I will try to explain some of that for you.

The idea is an excellent one and the POV is good. Now down to the nitty gritty,

Your shot is pretty much out of focus. The rim is in focus in the left hand side, but that is it. The drip in focus would have worked better or the appliance that you where trying to shoot. A little bit more of the appliance would have helped too, even though everyone knows that it is a coffee machine.

The yellow behind the cup is distracting, now if you had moved that to center then it would have been more pleasing and not thrown the center off your shot, it would have looked more like a glow around your appliance.

there is not a lot that could have been done in post processing, your colours are good, textures are feeling right. As before focus is off so unsharp mask wouldn't have helped much. Get your self a tripod!!

Coffee anyone
by twodogz

Comment:
Hi from the C Club,

You asked for an indepth review of your shot in a challenge.

This is a nice macro shot!

Unless I read your title I would have had no idea as to what I was looking at! You did shoot this very well. I am finding that I am tilting my head to make it centered though, so a tighter crop on the left hand side to center it would have helped with this.

You have a good DOF going on here starting at the handle (?) and leading our eyes to the center. You did well with your light bounce as well.

There is not a lot you could have done in post processing that you didn't all ready do, but maybe just a little more contrast to give it some depth.

Overall, the comments that you received are pretty much spot on.

Mosquito Killer
by mic

Comment:
Hi from the C Club,

You asked for an indepth review of your shot in this challenge.

First off, good idea! YOu are nicely sharpened on the main focal point in your shot. Your colours are good too,

I scored fairly low on this shot in the challenge and here are the reasons why.

I think this could have been shot just a little bit more diffently to give it more interest. In teh comments, this has been addressed too. Having the shot not in the center helps. Here is one I did of your shot (completely illegal though as I cloned. Now as you can see, with this being off center, it does actually draw your eye more to the subject and check it out some more. It gets rid of the white brightness at the top of your shot. Having a black piece of cloth or paper behind this would have helped with that brightness as well and given you a more solid background. Play around with angles when you are shooting something, shoot with it in the corners with lots of negative space, zoom right in etc etc.

The smoke that is coming out is also interesting in this shot and with a darker background would have stood out more.

All in all, you did well

Message edited by author 2009-08-27 12:48:43.

Pink Flowery balls
by ksnyman

Comment:
Hi from C Club

You asked for a more in depth comment on your photo.

You have some lovely shades of pink going on here, very clean colours.

The flower is coming across as a more red colour than pink, but it is complimenting the other pinks that you have going on here.

You are tack sharp, clarity is great. Now teh glass is tilted and that would cost you a few points right there, try straighteneing it up some, I am thinking that a portrait shot would have given you more negative space and looked stunning as well, with this it is a little too near the center, try moving the glass or cropping it on the right hand side.

Other than that, a great shot.

Vintage Toaster
by BeefnCheez

Comment:
Hi from the C Club

You asked for an in depth comment on your recent photograph in this challenge.

Nice shot of appliances here.

I think that I am one of those ones that didn't really feel your reflections so much. I saw the oven, then all I saw and what kept drawing my eye was the electrical plug and wall. Repositioning the toaster could have eliminated this . having the toaster on the edge of the counter would have given you the whole reflection of the oven versus it just being cut off in the middle of the toaster and leaving dead space there,

Your ISO is way up there and accounts for the grain that I am seeing also, try a faster shutter speed or more light. The reflection of the power cord is a little distracting and could have been laid more flat and even mroe in focus.

Your POV is great, your DOF is good also, overall this is a good clean shot of an appliance, well done