Marco
by amonteforte

Comment by alanfreed:
At first I thought the title said "Macro," and I thought, gee, that's not macro at all. But alas, it is indeed Marco! :) Nice DOF, good crisp shot!

GYM
by amonteforte

Comment by jgillard:
A slightly faster shutter speed would of given more defnition to the moving legs, and would of been better I think. jgillard5

GYM
by amonteforte

Comment by tjuneau13:
Nice capture of motion, I like that the girl is captured in the mirror. And I am glad that you didn't get your own reflection in the mirror as many people seem to do when taking this kind of shot. My only comment is that the shot seems to tilt to the left - although in a weird way that adds to the motion seen in the shot. 7

Marco
by amonteforte

Comment by Shiiizzzam:
Not only is he adorable but the DOF and lighting are perfect. Nice job. Shiiizzzam

Marco
by amonteforte

Comment by undieyatch:
excellent portrait

I Made the Cover! (Literally)
by amonteforte

Comment by stephan:
Hello Aldo, don'twonder why you get another critique this late,but your photo was assigned to me in context of the Critique Club (maybe you read about that in the forum). So here it goes:

First of all I want to say that it's a bit hard to critique this photo. It's a photo of a photo and as such I won't critique your (very nice) photo of the peacock but the photo of the magazines.

Composition: I like how you used several NGs and the way you placed them a little bit rotated. This makes them look like an ordinary pile of magazines on your desk. To make it look even less staged you could have zoomed out a bit more and shown one or two objects which normally lie on a table, e.g. a pencil or something like that. But I guess you wanted to show as much of the cover as possible.
The dark edge of the table in the upper right corner is a bit distracting. I also think the photo would look better with a bit more space on the left side like on the right side.

Lighting: The light seems to come from the lower right. I like how it creates some shadows giving the photo more depth and making it visible that this is a thicker magazine and not just a sheet of paper. But I think there is a shadow in the lower left corner which is probably you standing before the light source. This makes the cover of the front magazine a bit unevenly lit.

Focus: All is well. As far as I can see everything of the front magazine is in focus.

Art: Maybe it sounds a bit nitpicking but I don't think the photo fits to the challenge. The photo of the peacock would, but the photo of a magazine showing the peacock does not. However, fulfilling the challenge is only one or two points on my scoring scale and considering the high creativity and fun factor I still think it's a good photo.

Roses are Blue
by amonteforte

Comment by PTLParsons:
No they're not and it's a shame to have made this one blue. Too bright, too out of focus, messy background. Whole picture too busy. Should never have tried to colorize it in any way. PTL 1

Roses are Blue
by amonteforte

Comment by Turbotech:
Hmmm. Something just is not right here.

Roses are Blue
by amonteforte

Comment by Arachnophilia:
violets are red? my only problem with the picture is that blue of the rose is too close to the blue of the background, and so it's looking relatively flat, even with teh shallow dof. the green would work beautifully with the blue, if the background were a different color. compositionally, it's a beautiful shot. 8

Roses are Blue
by amonteforte

Comment by jab119:
looks a little over exposed or too bright on the upper center right hand side of the pic, if that was your intention then cool shot. Still a good shot