Acid Trip
by atsxus

Comment by Imagineer:
Smooth, clear, pretty shot. Motion is frozen too - but if anything this is neither quite abstract enough or defined enough - depending on whether you pull back or get closer. I'dd rather see this much closer and be left wondering what I'm looking at!

Acid Trip
by atsxus

Comment by Mambe:
Don't like the title but the photo is excellent !!!!

Where there's Smoke...
by atsxus

Comment by atsxus:
Daniel;

Thank you for your wonderful critique. I appreciate it. It was extremely helpful. I was wondering why it didn't do as well as I thought it would, and now I have my answer.

Stephanie

Where there's Smoke...
by atsxus

Comment by graphicfunk:
From the critique club:
First: this is a very good composition but because of the effect it falls into the abstract class. The how of this remains a mystery. The looker searches to no avail. Forgetting the smoke challenge, the image is strong. bring it into the challenge and it suffers from the ambiguity of what else accompanies the smoke. It turns into a riddle, but the viewer is not able to discern the answer.

On the left I think I see a candle of about 4 or 5 inch width. yet this is wrong because the smoke appears to emanates before this. Then, the smoke itself. Again, it looks like some shield with a hole and a tear like highlighted bottom, where the smoke is entering or is it exiting?

This is only my reflection. Others will have other issues. So again, you have a very artistic, abstract image in a challenge where the viewer wants to see smoke in its many ramifications, and they will allow smke to be abstract and dominate, but they will hold your feet to the fire because the other components instead of adding mystery added the unsolvable dilemma. If this were an abstract challenge, your mark would be ever so higher. Despite all this, I like it exactly as presented because it holds that hidden element.

Acid Trip
by atsxus

Comment by dr rick:
Beautiful abstract. Nice colors and good bokeh.

A Mother's Touch
by atsxus

Comment by potog:
you could use a little more sharpness to emphasize the subject.

A Mother's Touch
by atsxus

Comment by siggi:
Noise / grain too much - but right on topic

Acid Trip
by atsxus

Comment by photom:
The colors are nice, composition is fine. The out of focus zones of confusion are way distracting.

Acid Trip
by atsxus

Comment by graphicfunk:
very interesting effect. Bumping up.

A Mother's Touch
by atsxus

Comment by teknon42:
good catch. it does feel over-cropped to the point that grain and interpolation weaken the image. also the background seems a bit distracting. however, overall it is excellent!