Wildfowl Carving Magazine
by camelotnorth

Comment by HBunch:
*Critique Club*
What stands out to me most is the shadow. I think it's a bit distracting. I think that with different lighting, not only would it help fix the shadow, but also help to bring out the colors a bit more in your image.
The horizontal line in your background isn't horizontal, which is also distracting.
I think I would have placed the subject on something other than a wooden table. Having it on wood, distracts from it being wood. Just too much wood to focus on just one of the wooden subjects. Table or Duck.
I also wonder how this would be as a close up. Maybe of just the head. I think it would show the detail a lot better and accentuate the fact that it's carved.
Your focus and clarity are good, but because of the lighting, we lose some of the detail on the top of his head.
Overall, the subject could definately be on the front cover, and with some minor adjustments, the photo as well.
~Heather~

My entertainment center
by camelotnorth

Comment by mzanoni:
Wow, lots of use of the filters, but it adds some imact here.

My entertainment center
by camelotnorth

Comment by ChrisW123:
Cool texture, I like it.

Yup...this is the real me
by camelotnorth

Comment by ursula:
Nice self-portrait! Blue and silver really suit you well. I like the smile. ~7

Yup...this is the real me
by camelotnorth

Comment by carolee:
I like the expression -- looks like you're in conversation with someone. It's a little snapshotty, the lighting and background look kind of unremarkable, but it's overall a clean shot.

My entertainment center
by camelotnorth

Comment by eloise:
Speaking only for my personal aesthetic preferences, the blotchy/gloppy over-modified 'focus' here is bizarre and very distracting. If it were focussed more mundanely, this could well have been a 9 for me. As it is, 5.

My entertainment center
by camelotnorth

Comment by mci:
your digital effects are really detracting from this image. your choice of subjact matter was probably a little on the boring side and you felt the need to give more interest to the image, but it's not working. lighting seems okay, but i can't really tell much. it just doesn't have the feel of a "photograph". 3.

My entertainment center
by camelotnorth

Comment by BobsterLobster:
An interesting the shot, but the posterising (or similar) filter completely detracts for me. 4

My entertainment center
by camelotnorth

Comment by RiderGal:
I know that this was an open editing challenge, but what you did to this photo makes it, in my mind, appear to be overprocessed, and look like a drawing/water color or something. I'm not sure I really care for what you did here. I think that emphasis on a photography website should still be put on the original picture more than the editing, even in an free for all editing challenge. Just my opinion though.

Yup...this is the real me
by camelotnorth

Comment by ChrisW123:
Nice shot of the real you! Great lighting.