Simple Beauty
by GolferDDS

Comment by StevePax:
I like the composition and the border. I wonder if it was really all this color of green or how much did you have to tweak it?

Simple Beauty
by GolferDDS

Comment by crabappl3:
The colors and background are very well done. There is something about the lighting on the plant that seems a little harsh compared to the softness of the vase and background. I'm wondering if a landscape crop with more negative space on the left would make for a stronger composition. Good pic. 7 -danny

Simple Beauty
by GolferDDS

Comment by jmsetzler:
Interesting use of green and red... the complementary color theme would pop a little harder if the green wasnt' overpowering the red so much. The background in this shot is also showing through in a very weak way... maybe more of the background or less of it would enhance the image as well. Good composition and decent choice of subject as well... = 6

Confusion. Which Shall I Choose?
by GolferDDS

Comment by karmat:
Tylenol, definitely. :-)

Amend -- Great work on the composition. It has a strong, stable feeling to it. Two minor nitpicks. I think a tighter crop, even one that had the subjects "spilling" out of the frame would have been effective, and the border bothers me. Doesn't affect your "score" but I do think in this case it effects the overall effect of the picture. I find myself drawn to the yellow line instead fo the bottles.

Confusion. Which Shall I Choose?
by GolferDDS

Comment by GeneralE:
I bet trying to decide gave you a headache...

Confusion. Which Shall I Choose?
by GolferDDS

Comment by Inga_fang:
cool idea, I don´t like the borders though...simple is sometimes better

Baltimore Inner Harbor
by GolferDDS

Comment by e301:
Hi Lawrence - Critique Club

A few minor points first: there's a slight quality issue (and I mean slight) but it's having aneffect here. There's so much detail in the shot that you really need to use every bit of the available image size, and entering at 100Kb isn't doing yourself any favours. That's probably what's causing the slightly blurry, slightly out of fcus look here, I think.

The light is also not helping you: you've chosen a time of day when the sky is very bright relative to the land, and obviously in order to get some definition in the buildings you've lost most of the definition in the sky. I wonder if the other end of the day might have been more effective - it seems like the light is beind the buildings here, so perhaps sunrise time (if this is sunset) would have lit across the front of the buildings more.

In composition terms ... well, there's such a lot of it to squeeze into the image - I'm not sure that you wouldn't have gained some definition overall by taking the two tallest buildings as you main subjects - we'd still ahev the water, the boats, the sky, but the great quality of the light reflected in the buildings would be more prominent, and you could lose the clutter around the right hand side of the harbour and that crane. It isn't always necessary to show all of somethng to give the best image of something, if you see what I mean.

Think I'd also have tried to wait and see what happens when there's still light in the sky and the lights in the buildings are coming on.

Nice work though

Ed

Confusion. Which Shall I Choose?
by GolferDDS

Comment by Gracious:
WOW! Creative and unique, and meets challenge well!

The Race
by GolferDDS

Comment by hawkida:
Quite a nice snapshot but it doesn't seem to have much impact and the colours don't seem particularly important within the image. More of a photojournalism shot than anything, it seems.

Confusion. Which Shall I Choose?
by GolferDDS

Comment by kiwiness:
Clever set-up, very creative. The result is good. If only the yellow tablets could have been the same color as the yellow on the bottles and the border this would have been a killer photo - 8.