Coming in to Land
by Pangurban

Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club!]

I like your choice of colours and your basic composition is good. The curve of the parasail (sorry if I get the lingo wrong) leads the eye up into the clouds and the rest of the sail guides the eye down to the person in the black sleeping bag :-) They look very comfy!

I feel though that the shot didn't do better, partly to the softness (which may be heat haze) and the lack of dynamism, a sense of action and possible danger - after all it's a bloke or blokette in the sky in a sleeping bag at the mercy of the wind!! Waiting for the actual landing segment may be more worth it. Play around with shooting from different angles. Also, I do agree with Armando that you may want to watch the pp. I see banding in the clouds which may be partly due to the lens but could also be caused by using the sliders a little too much in the pp program you are using. Of course you want the colours to pop, but you also want to ensure you don't get unwanted artifacts either.

All in all, not a bad shot by any means. But do go out there and shoot, a lot, as that's by far the best way to learn.

Hope this critique has been useful. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions.

Susan

Purple McBain
by Pangurban

Comment by jgirl57:
Commenting only-
Love the reflection on this.. great details

Turning My Heart Upside Down
by Pangurban

Comment by Catherine_B:
A pretty window garden that is artificially framed by the iron work. This has potential and I think would be better if the upper corners of the image were blacked out or more opaque. The way it is now the iron really distracts from the flowers which are the main subject.

Turning My Heart Upside Down
by Pangurban

Comment by kiwinick:
nice idea

The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword
by Pangurban

Comment by levyj413:
I feel caught between two different ways I'd prefer this: a wider view showing me something about the paper and a tighter macro, probably with a different angle on the lighting to bring out the interesting shapes and depth of the ridges and bumps.

The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword
by Pangurban

Comment by jgirl57:
NICE!

Purple McBain
by Pangurban

Comment by Penny Lane:
So pretty yet so deadly!

Purple McBain
by Pangurban

Comment by littlemav:
Ohhhh that's pretty... did you tie him?

Flight
by Pangurban

Comment by betwys1:
An old familiar place - the Midlands.

Arum Snail
by Pangurban

Comment by SaraR:
Yay, you broke the 5! I was one of your 5 voters.
Pros: the bokeh is good, shows the subject off to good effect, and is definitely aesthetically pleasing. The shell is shown to good effect. I like the way the plant is angled so that the bottom is away from the lens and consequently out of focus.

Cons: the snail is out of focus - f3.2 was too wide an aperture, you probably needed around f8, and at at least f5.6. This was quite a big issue for me. Compositionally, the subject is leaning to the left, it just looks a tad unbalanced.

Summary - biggest problem is the ultra shallow dof.