Serious Moonlight
by EssAreDubya

Comment:
Hi from the CC CLub

I can see this shot in a fairy tale book, full of PeterPans and Pirates.

I think this shot needed a squarer crop to get rid of some of the left hand side. right now it is gorgeous framing, but I think that as there are so many branches in the foreground that it is distracting to the rest fo the shot, which you have titled Serious Moon. SO you need to have that as a good solid focal point. If you crop to the edge of that cream yellow thing that is on the left hand side floor, you will see a bigger difference in the shot.

I really like this shot and would have thought it would score higher.

Pm me if you have any questions!

Wing of Desire
by CatalinasGrace

Comment:
Hello from teh CC Club

I can see that you love aeroplanes and it shows in this shot.

there are a couple of things there that are niggling me. Play around with the angle when you are shooting a prop, get really low, go side wades, front back , get really close in or shoot from a distance then crop the picture really close and get some crazy angles. In this shot I would like to have seen a little more of the right hand side propella, it would have evened it out just a tad and the POV would be eyeed better.

There is also a lot of burnt sienna and softness. If you are going to go down that road, be careful wtih the softness, there has to be one point where it is pretty sharp or it can get to look like a soft flat shot. I like your sienna.

The whites are coming across as buttery cream, which is lovely.

If you are going to go this soft, you still need to sharpen, it will bring out details that you would not have through where there, right now it does tend to blend into one.

I am also wondering if you couldn't have gotten away with a steeper angle on this, something to think about

over all a great shot!!!!

PM me if you have any questions!

Impaled DEAD bee, LIVE worms
by HarveyG

Comment:
Here is a little more of what i was talking about, working with a smaller JPG hurts, but you can get teh general ideas as to what i mean with selective colours and hue and saturation.



I should also add, it is very grainy from doing a close crop and over processed some what, but it is a general idea

Message edited by author 2009-08-08 12:43:20.

On the mountain
by Brin

Comment:
This is from Bear_Music

The hill/s on the right seem "wrong", as if they are not vertically oriented within the scene. So when the eye reads this scene, it is reading it as "leaning" and it is not comfortable. It appears to be an example of "keystoning", like what you get shooting up at a skyscraper except less extreme. The problem is that there's nothing on the left to show the keystone effect on that side, so the end result is the image appears to be leaning that way. But if you rotate it to "level" the hills, then the left side is obviously way off square. This visual anomaly is producing the disconterting tension in the image.

R.

Message edited by author 2009-08-08 11:54:36.

On the mountain
by Brin

Comment:
I am sorry I couldn't find out what was bothering me, but i do think it is the hill, to me it is almost as though it is an illusion being pulled into the center of the shot. It is bending . I don't know how to put it into words, so asked around, cos i really wanted to say something useful.

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and a HUGE thank you for everyone else chiming in for me too, it helped me understand some more about the photo

Message edited by author 2009-08-08 11:50:47.

~ The Candle ~
by Ja-9

Comment:
Hi from the CC Club,

Another gorgeous shot of the slots. You can never really go wrong with these shots.

You did really well with this shot, very crisp, very clean. I especially like the fact that you can hardly see any footsteps in the sand.

The only problem with the slots is that at some point you are going to encounter daylight. You have managed teh daylight fairly well here. there is no way around it being blown out.

It is a little over sharpened, I know that the walls are made from sand and do tend to look on photos as though they are sharpened a lot as there appears to he halos on the edges, but I think you could have stepped back a bit on this one.

In Post Processing , play with the hue and saturation and selective colours. Mainly because you will find that there are hidden colours in those walls. Mainly purples believe it or not.

Great photo and they look amazing blown up and hung up on the wall. Well done

On the mountain
by Brin

Comment:
HI from the CC Club,

You certainly do seem to be on top of the world here, what a magnificent area. SO serene.

You have everything going on here, the light and dark of the dramatic clouds, the smoothness of the white shown, the path with its leading line.

There is a some grain going on in the sky and snow, but it does tend to lend itself to this shot. I almost feel like it has been oversharpened.

The path, the clouds, the positions of the mountain tops are excellent leading lines that draw your eye towards the back of the photo to give it great depth.

There is something about this shot that just seems a little odd to me and I don't know what it is, so I am going to ask another member to give you a critique as well, as I feel I am missing something.

Message edited by author 2009-08-08 09:12:18.

Canoe on steady water
by Harlequin

Comment:
Hi from the CC Club

A very good photo, it is sharp, clean and clarity is excellent. Just needed to flip the photo so he was going upwards. The eye tends to want to look upwards and wants a leading line upwards.

The water drops and leading lines of the water that you have going on here are really excellent, very clear. I am surprised at your placement and thought it would score higher than this.

PM if you have any questions

Message edited by author 2009-08-08 08:54:55.

Decorative Footwear
by cbondar

Comment:
HI from the CC club,

For your first entry this is very good!! Well done

1st Impressions, it is very dark, the lighting is dark. In post processing you could have used the shadow highlights, exposure and or brightness, using the unsharp would have give you a little edge too. . Your leading lines are excellent.

Overall, if it was just a tad lighter then I think this would have scored higher than it did.

Great job Cant wait to see what else you produce!

Shibshib
by Timosaby

Comment:
HI from the CC Club

Very nice placement for your shot, it is deserved!!!

I love the details that you have captured here, sharp , clean and clear. You DOF is good, would have liked to have seen it without the heel of the other shoe in the shot. Did you try it with just the front shoe, that would have been interesting.

The heel is a little blown out, so watch out for lighting. There is also a bump of white near the front of the shoe that is distracting. What is the white plastic looking thing on her foot? Is that part of the shoe?? It almost seems out of place with all the intricate details that you have with the beading etc.

Overal, a very pleasing shoe and foot, well done!!