Snowmanby
channeledComment by Harz_Joerg: Greetings from the Critique Club
Initial thoughts/My opinion
The snowman is to me one of the tackiest items of the whole show, but the finger spoil the image. Also has some light issues.
Content/Composition
No question: as it has been commented by others the marshmallow snowman is reeeealy tacky but also cute. One sees that it has been handmade and that is nice. Arranging it in the tree was also a good idea, although the tree itself seems to be covered with snow-spray and thus the contrast to the snowman is not as high as it could be.
Main issue to me (as to others) are the fingers (probably needed to keep the snowman from rotation). They disturb so much, because they are as well focused as the snowman and thus attracts the viewers eyes as much. However, they are not important at all. Fixing the snowman from the back with a wooden stick or so would have been way better. Also the brown cookie in the back is not so well placed and thus disturbs.
Camera work -technically
Focus is just right and the narrow DOF works well to make a blurry background. The light is of course an issue: macro or closeup using flash rarely work and your image is a good example for this statement. Things turn out to look flat and cold, and the background gets usually way to dark (here it's the middle portion). Using a tripod or a solid support and a small desklamp to experiment with shadow and light is not only a fun thing to do, but one is always amazed how simple it is to set completely different moods by just moving the light around.
Digital Processing - Technical
You have might considered to change the tint of the image digitally to a warmer colour. Also a tacky border might have been good here.
Fits the challenge
Good luck for your further submissions
