Bug's life: THE END
by LevT

Comment by kena:
Funny idea, and interesting perspective. Nice picture.

Bare
by LevT

Comment by LevT:
Thanks to everyone and especially to Neuferland for comments and critique. I think, my experiment (see above) worked - nobody accused me of being off-topic, and I found that about half of the viewers liked the colors and another half found them tacky and unnatural. Of course they are unnatural, that was the whole idea, if I kept the original sky color it would be one booooring photograph. Surprizingly, over a span of the past week I more-less made peace with the colors here, so while for me they still ARE tacky, the overall package kinda works, not as a photograph, but as a piece of pop-art. I can see it on a wall in some New York Upper West Side apartment :)

Life on a sailing boat
by LevT

Comment by madison461:
Love the colors and tones. Nice shot!

Bug's life: THE END
by LevT

Comment by stek:
intresting. it fits the challenge. nice job.

Bare
by LevT

Comment by Neuferland:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

So, you didn't tell the results of yoru experiment! :)

This is square on topic and the tacky colors seem to have backfired a bit looking at your score, people liked it!

I personally look at it and say, "Cool colors, but very unnatural." The edges around the branches don't seem right for some reason, not exactly sure why.

The lines coming in and out are very nice, leading in, leading out. I'm thinking if you had just adjusted the colors to a more natural blue it would have done even better but we may never know, right?
Nice job.

Deannda

Bug's life: THE END
by LevT

Comment by dwterry:
Excellent. I really like the angle, lighting, colors, sharpness and cropping in this picture.

Bug's life: THE END
by LevT

Comment by TheresaA:
Would not want to be that bug. Interesting take on perspective. Cool image

Bug's life: THE END
by LevT

Comment by Parker:
How did you get George Bush to model for you?

Bug's life: THE END
by LevT

Comment by stam:
I see a little bit perspective but not enough and I really do not like bugs!

Orchidea
by LevT

Comment by sfalice:
Greetings from the Critique Club

YOur Orchidea is a beautiful flower. I just sat and stared at it for quite a long while. While I think it met the HIgh Contrast Challenge quite well, others disagreed. That's the way it goes sometimes.

However, I would suggest that compositionally, you fill the frame with this beauty. Generally off-centered subjects work well, but in this case, the shape of the flower calls for full-frame treatment. Perhaps because the left side of the flower is slightly heavier.

Finally, (picky,picky) it would have been better if that bit of red in the right hand corner wasn't there. Perhaps (if you do it again) when you create the set up and place the bloom you could mask the extra petal with a bit of black, or simply anchor it out of the way. It's a minor disraction, but an unnecessary one. (of course, now that the challenge is over, you can just clean it up)

I'm delighted to have the chance to look at this image more carefully.