Home Time
by melongrind

Comment by JB707:
I like it...It looks like a sketch or something, the black and white does the trick...

Home Time
by melongrind

Comment by lockjawdavis:
That has to be a Toronto rush hour! Nice in B & W...

Home Time
by melongrind

Comment by dsidwell:
What I like most about this shot is your tonal range. The darks are nice and rich and the lights are nice and light. My attention ultimately goes to the van down right because of the street and lines and light. I would think you'd want my attention to start there, and them move up? Nice work. 8

De-lish
by melongrind

Comment by nborton:
the top of the glass bowl doesn't help at all, it almost looks like the picture is embossed. other than that, you've got a pretty nice composition set up.

Minimize Sun Damage
by melongrind

Comment by jasonya:
I like the directness of this photo. The fact that it is taken so close is very interesting.

Minimize Sun Damage
by melongrind

Comment by Zoomdak:
nice sharpness, I wish I could know more of your idea for the shot for it is a little unclear to me.

Minimize Sun Damage
by melongrind

Comment by garlic:
Very good texture and lightning

Minimize Sun Damage
by melongrind

Comment by vtruan:
Excellent sharpness and colors are fantastic.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
by melongrind

Comment by Harz_Joerg:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Initial thoughts/My opinion
Nice, friendly looking door scene living from pleasantly looking pale colours and a variation of textures. Title not well suited though.

Content/Composition
I do like the overall composition, how the door, pots and bush are placed. It's also nicely framed at the top and bottom by the ivy and the small piece of garden that can be seen.
The image is living from texture (the wall and the old paint on the door) and shape (mainly the rectangular door and the dark spots on the wall, where probably post-boxes once were placed).
The light is looking fine to me: no sharp shadows, everything is smooth.
The colours are also very pleasant: everything has some patina, no bright shiny colours are shown. However, the scenery does not look rotten. One could envision that behind this door an elderly, friendly couple is living in old Victorian furniture. Old but nice.
At this point comes the biggest drawback of your submission: the title and image do not fit together well. There is nothing that brings up fear or cave in my mind when looking at the image. "Treasure" is fine, but to me the possibility that there are treasures behind the door is already visible when looking at the outside.
In this particular challenge, in which title/added text was much more important then usually, this was probably the reason why voters didn't vote much higher.

Camera work -technically
I think you did well very on exposure: you used the full range from dark to bright and that the lower left is underexposed fits to the overall composition. Focus could be a tad sharper (seen best on the ivy): it's just on the edge between looking soft and slightly out of focus.

Digital Processing - Technical
Looks mostly good to me: if you adjusted the saturation of this image digitally, you did just great. A bit more unsharpening mask might have been better though
You made the framing suitable for normal submissions. For this challenge however, adding a wider border with the text in it would have been the better way to go.

Fits the challenge
The image is for sure suitable for a motivational poster, the title too, but their combination not so much, as already stated above.

Good luck for you further submissions

Minimize Sun Damage
by melongrind

Comment by MrOlafsson:
Nice eyes there.