All Gave Some - Some Gave All
by ClubJuggle

Comment by EyesOnly:
Very.... Very.. Good

Isolation
by ClubJuggle

Comment by fstopopen:
Greetings from the critique club.

When I opened this image, I instantly got a nostalgia for going to the pumpkin patch when I was a child. The pumpkin is a symbol of the harvest, and the isolation makes me think of the way one feels after thanksgiving. The holiday season can be lonely, and it usually begins when you start to see pumpkins around. I love the symbology, and the emotions it invokes.

Composition:
This is a good picture with a strong sense of placement. The eye is drawn directly to the place that you intended it, the pumpkin. There is really nowhere for it to go after that, and that can be okay, but I feel like another element would have helped. Perhaps something in the upper right of the photo to give a sense of balance would have helped. Given the fact that an element like that probably did not exist, I think that the photo would have been helped a little getting in closer to your subject. Think of the rule of thirds. This pumpkin is way on the bottom of the frame. If you would have gotten closer, and perhaps lower on it, you would have gotten the gord to take up almost a third of the frame. This also would have decreased your DOP, helping to accentuate that beautiful fog.

Lighting:
Good. I like the muted colors of the field. It really gives you that feeling of the loneliness of the season. It is hard to wrong with the evenly dispersed lighting that a cloudy day gives you in a situation like this.

Post processing:
I like what you have done mostly. I wish you would have given the pumpkin just a little more punch. If I were you, I would probably create a duplicate layer and make the mode linear burn. Then I would cut the pumpkin out of this layer. You can then tweak the opacity of the burn layer so that the surroundings of the pumpkin won̢۪t fight for spectrum space as much as it does now. You could even make an additional layer and make it a gradient going from top to bottom so that that burn layer is bright on top, but graduates down to a darker value. This way your pumpkin pops out without having to over-saturate it, or make it too bright. Just some ideas.

Good picture. I like it a lot.

Domino Effect
by ClubJuggle

Comment by yuorme:
doesnt look like a photograph at all.

December
by ClubJuggle

Comment by darix:
Does not say december to me...

Domino Effect
by ClubJuggle

Comment by banmorn:
Hmmmm,WOW! Hmmmm....dear SC......LOL! It came it aout really nice and the composition really makes it look like you got in realy close. I might have thought about knocking off the dot and partial on the right just for abstract purposes....but that is probably just me! Good luck.

December
by ClubJuggle

Comment by Gatorguy:
I love the backlight on the flag. The branches are very distracting in front of the cupola or whatever that archetectural element is in the background. 5

Domino Effect
by ClubJuggle

Comment by K-Rob:
Either that's a huge domino or you have a macro lense with IMENSE depth of field. I've never seen a macro lense get that much clearly in focus. Is it even possible? In any case, the effect remains and meets the challenge perfectly. - 8

Domino Effect
by ClubJuggle

Comment by Konador:
There isnt enough in this photo to held my interest. No texture, shading, just lots of flat colours. It doesnt appeal to me, sorry.

Domino Effect
by ClubJuggle

Comment by moswyn:
Oh, very nice... Good job of showing us a very small part of something and yet making it immediately recognizable!

Domino Effect
by ClubJuggle

Comment by fotodude:
cool shot