It's For You
by MinsoPhoto

Comment by emily212:
like the color

It's For You
by MinsoPhoto

Comment by tehben:
Cool picture, but I don't like the house.

It's For You
by MinsoPhoto

Comment by brandur:
R 5

It's For You
by MinsoPhoto

Comment by EL-ROI:
This is a fun shot. It could use some fill lighting in the foreground and there appears to be a problem with the rotation as the tree and the house is tilted.

Pleasantville
by MinsoPhoto

Comment by Tom:
nice job with the colors!

Memorial Garden Entrance
by MinsoPhoto

Comment by sfalice:
greetings from the Critique Club

jminso we meet again! It was just a moment ago (it seems) that I was looking with great interest at your rose image and now here we are at a Civil War Memorial.

Yes, it is a lovely and serene image that received a middling score. One of your comments seemed to suggest the entrance was a bit dark, and yes, when I ran your fine image through 'shadows & highlights' quite a lot more detail came through, especially in the stonework. If it was mine, I'd probably try for a bit more color in the roof of the pillared structure; otherwise the modeling there works well IMO.

Perhaps it was a bit too placid for the likes of our impatient voters who sometimes like excitement more, but still it is a fine image and one you can be proud of.

Alice

PS I did add a note to the rose image when I saw it again.

Pleasantville
by MinsoPhoto

Comment by GinaRothfels:
Sorry, but I don't get why the basket is in colour, thus appearing more important than the child.

The Sweet Spot
by MinsoPhoto

Comment by youngnova:
Great job teamy... keep this up! Very creative.

Painting the Roses... Orange???
by MinsoPhoto

Comment by sfalice:
Greetings from the Critique Club

LOL, jminso, you get an Alice to critique an 'Alice' image. Heh, heh. You also get a painter, so that's where this Critique will head.

First, you didn't do all that badly in the scoring, especially in this tough Challenge.

Now, that second rose: if you were using watercolor paints (or anything that you can dilute, other than oils), you might thin it down lots with water and then just dunk the rose in it & keep it upside down until fairly dry. Presently, the poor thing just looks (er, ahem) destroyed. Then, on the foreground rose, I don't know what that rectangular orange slice of paper(?) is doing there. For verisimilitude, it would have been lots better to just hold a paint-loaded orange brush next to, or on a petal. The lighting to me is okay, and I don't mind the hand. Probably helps.

The completely black background is a strong plus and sets off your composition nicely.

So, to sum up, you did well, and obviously enjoyed making this image, so a big plus all around.

Alice

OK, PS a couple of days later: I see that IS the end of a brush there not an (ahem) piece of paper, but my comment still holds. The brush 'should' be a nice pointy long narrow bristled item that would touch the petal lightly. 'nuff of painterly critiquing, before I paint myself into another corner.
:-))

Message edited by author 2010-04-09 20:07:52.

The Sweet Spot
by MinsoPhoto

Comment by oscarburd:
Hi from Critique Club.

I like you photo very much!!!

Ideas for a better image:

1 - Put some color in the borders;
2 - Write your signature in the lower right corner;
3 - Use some kind of filter to blur the sides of the image and bring more focus to the center and the ball.

Hope you like my ideas.

Oscar Burd