Textures of the Sea
by Dseale

Comment by aKiwi:
Would be better if it was a little sharper

Textures of the Sea
by Dseale

Comment by dhare:
Nice colours

Textures of the Sea
by Dseale

Comment by admart01:
nicely composed and got the feeling of smooth. Pearls at the bottom distract my attention a bit.

Textures of the Sea
by Dseale

Comment by KING:
[World Record Attempt]
+ The shell is appealing and shows various textures in combination with the light.
- Focus seems to be a bit off; DOF is too shallow. Perhaps you should come closer to the shell to give the photo more appeal. A different POV or composition might improve the photo as well.

Textures of the Sea
by Dseale

Comment by jpochard:
This is okay. I wish the lighting was a little more even. I like the texture.

Textures of the Sea
by Dseale

Comment by HBunch:
I'm kind of seeing al lthe stuff at the bottom as a distraction. the shell is beautiful and tefinately a texture, but the stuff at the bottom is all out of focus, and being out of focus, doesn't seem like it's a main subject at all, and therefor doesn't really seem to fit in with the photo at all. Also, I think I'd like to see different crops of this. The bright spot in the center of the shell is actually appealing to me in this case. normally I don't like bright spots, but I think it works here well. ~Heather~

Textures of the Sea
by Dseale

Comment by drydoc:
Nicely done. Only comment is the light source leaves a distracting hot spot and shadow. BOL

Textures of the Sea
by Dseale

Comment by justine:
Pretty shell, color and lighting. Just needs focus.

Textures of the Sea
by Dseale

Comment by e301:
I find this a bit weak compositionally: and the light and shade a bit blunt. It seems to emphasise shininess rather than smoothness. Whatever that stuff is surrounding the main shell seems very arbitrary.

In the darkness of Sagittarius
by Dseale

Comment by JC_Homola:
Greetings from the critique club

Nice shot!

I think the main issues are the light and crop. That said, I'll tackle the crop first.

I might suggest have the tip of the arrow in the shot and cropping more for it to have the feel of a panorama. You can crop some of the bottom of the image with out loosing the feel of the pose.

As for the light. Not knowing how you had this lit it is difficult to say. So I'll just say what I would have done.
Using a diffuser of some sort, in front of a single light source placed to the right and slightly below the elbow, I would have angled it so that it did not fall directly on the elbow but just below. This would help give more definition to his entire body and not have the bright area on the tip of the elbow.

A reflector of some sort placed low to reflect the light up on the front towards the hand holding the bow would help define that area and even out the rest of the light, while still keeping the intriguing shadows.

Really, this shot is very well done already and just a little tweaking would make it perfect.

hope this helps.

JC