Mrs. Brown
by lilnukee

Comment by lizbeth010:
like the black and white and composition, but why an umbrella on a sunny day?

Mrs. Brown
by lilnukee

Comment by Claya:
Nice composition and idea. Technically sound as well. Don't see much I'd change.

Mrs. Brown
by lilnukee

Comment by jpochard:
The umbrella seems out of place since I can't tell it's raining. I would have liked some light and some detail on this side of the tombstone. I like the tones of the photo and the idea fits the challenge.

Mrs. Brown
by lilnukee

Comment by GoodEnd:
Good shoot. Very emotive too. I really like 1 to 1.3 stops more to reveal clearly the grave´s name. May be you had used som kind of eveluative or weighted metering that makes this commom mistakes. Your dynamic range seems to allow you to do a 1 to 1.3 stops adjust without blow higlights.

Mrs. Brown
by lilnukee

Comment by jonpink:
nice emotive piece. Like the addition of unbrella (although is it raining?;)

Mrs. Brown
by lilnukee

Comment by andywightman:
Beautiful shot.

Mrs. Brown
by lilnukee

Comment by flip89:
Good shot. If probably be most improved if you showed just a little bit of the head, still covered but maybe a part of the face should show.

Stop by My Street
by lilnukee

Comment by Polar7:
Simple yet beautiful ! love the color and contrast.

Stop by My Street
by lilnukee

Comment by drgsoell:
Good title. Is that your handprint?

Tree in Silhouette
by lilnukee

Comment by Konador:
Critique Club

Wow, what great sunset colours. The colours along with the cloud formation really do look very nice. I like the centered composition and the tree looks great silhouetted. I think your main problem here is the jpeg compression. Your file is only 87kb, out of a 150k maximum. This means there are artifacts in the sky, and around the tree. I makes the pic look blurry and just generally not as appealing.

You say in your comments that you were experimenting with borders. I think the border looks okay but it could be better suited to the photo. At the moment you have 2 layers, with a line in the middle. I think you should only have 1 layer, so it looks thin, and put the thin white line in between the photo and the black border. This makes sure the black parts of the photo don't blend into the border.

I think some of the comments you got do bring up some good points. The colours could be even more eye-catching if you boosted the saturation a bit more in postprocessing. Also, a lot of people think 'after dark' means when the sun is completly gone. Voters are very literally minded here, so it's useful to take that into account.

Overall, this is a nice sunset photo, but slightly lacking in image quality. Play around with other compression levels to try and get something a little less artifacty.