Shooting the Breeze
by Artan

Comment by pineapple:
What a zoom. I like the effect and the subject seems to be perfect.

Shooting the Breeze
by Artan

Comment by blondmcfly:
I will be really surprised if this doesn't ribbon. Great job. Love the color and the motion blur, more enhancing than distracting.

Shooting the Breeze
by Artan

Comment by glad2badad:
This is fun, almost abstract in feel. Well done.

Shooting the Breeze
by Artan

Comment by Len Scap:
Spectacular Zoom! awesome light, Great color. I like it. too bad there's that one stray white reflection.(lower center) Since this is advanced editing I might have tried to clone that out. Good job!

Shooting the Breeze
by Artan

Comment by sherpet:
Amazing image here, and should do really well..... I love it.....A "10" from me.....

Shooting the Breeze
by Artan

Comment by BrianR:
This should be front page

Shooting the Breeze
by Artan

Comment by SandyP:
This is stunning! My favorite in this challenge. I would love to see this with a blue ribbon. In the meantime, it's going straight to my favorites folder :) 10

157452 - Broadway Tower
by Artan

Comment by kari1:
::: Critique Club :::

Hi, my name is Kari and from the critique club.

First Impression - the most important one:
You can really see a huge difference from the original ... but I agree the first one worked far better than this shot.

Subject:
Meets the challenge, and creates an kink in the pattern I have seen so far with the scoring being significantly lower in this image to the original .. but I think you may have anticipated that based on your photog.s comments.

Composition:
The composition works ... with the castle and the person both taking in the seperate thirds ... The fact that she is looking up just acknowledges the size and enormity of the castle. What I don't like is the grass really does need mowing in this shot .. it looked so spactactular in the previous shot.

Technical (Colour and light):
The castle and person are nice and crisp focus wise ... you have not oversharpened which is good ... you can make out details in the castle ...which creates an interest point for the eye.

To grow its vote?:
Go and take it in yet another season .. I think that season wise the other capture worked better (personally)

Summary:
Good work keep it up.

If you've got any questions about this critique, please feel free to contact me via the PM system.

Cheers

Kari

157452 - Broadway Tower
by Artan

Comment by DrAchoo:
So Artan, interesting in that you received such a different score. The bottom line is there may only be small difference between a 6.4 and a 7.1 (but they mean a lot).

In this one I think you have better elements and worse.
The biggest problems with this (compared to the original), IMO, are the grass (you should have brought the mower, eh?), and the time of day. Yes, there are more shadows, but the lighting is much more harsh.

The castle composition is better, I do like the clouds too. So overall, I can see the lowered score. Still, both are excellent shots. a 6.4 is still nothing to sneeze at.

157452 - Broadway Tower
by Artan

Comment by e301:
I like your self-analysis of the shot, and the differences with the original Ian. I would quibble with only one thing - you hint at a distinction between 'graphical interplay' and 'photography' where no such difference exists, I think: the point being, that as your camera renders this scene into two dimensions, you are making a graphic of it - two dimensional shapes; it's the interplay of that and the recognisably 'real' world that proides most photographic interest in most photographs.