Sailing Home
by kawesttex

Comment by Trumpeteer4:
Very cool. I think it's interesting that the high contrast part of your photo is not the subject. I'm not sure if that's good or bad. I still like this shot.7

Sailing Home
by kawesttex

Comment by hotpasta:
good image for this challenge...I like the light

Tethered
by kawesttex

Comment by atupdate:
Hello from the Critique Club,

There is no doubt that this image meets the challenge and your rotation and crop to put the strings leading from the corner made for a stronger leading line impact and helped this image break into the 6 scoring range. However, there is considerable pixelation in the strings and some movement visible as well (as you noted yourself in your comments). I think the image could have used just a bit more saturation for the sky (bump the blue color saturation only).

Your score probably suffered some from the standpoint that your leading lines were basically horizontal and didn't have a lot of depth to them. If you look at the top 10 images for this challenge, the voters seemed to like the images where the leading lines went deep into the image the most. All in all, the colors of the kite gave this image a different look to it and helped you achieve that coveted 6+ score. Congratulations!

Feel free to PM me if you have any questions regarding this critique.

Tim

Tethered
by kawesttex

Comment by cryingdragon:
Nice vibrant colors. Love how the lines lead down to the tethering point from the chute.

Tethered
by kawesttex

Comment by owen:
Definitely meets the challenge. Nice colours and contrast too.

Tethered
by kawesttex

Comment by goc:
nice ! cool crop

Tethered
by kawesttex

Comment by ryecr:
Very nice, vivid colors!

Guppy
by kawesttex

Comment by cryan:
I honestly didn't think there were any of these flying anymore. Great shot of one of the ugliest birds to fly.

Tethered
by kawesttex

Comment by KarenNfld:
This is fantastic. Not only do you have the bright colours, your composition is excellent. There is another similar parachute photo in the challenge but they don't have the diagonal composition like you do and it's not as pleasing as this.

Tethered
by kawesttex

Comment by jfriesen:
Whoa, I saw one just like this!? Wel, anyway I like them both.