Confusion. Which Shall I Choose?
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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?
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Comment by GeneralE:
I bet trying to decide gave you a headache...

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

Baltimore Inner Harbor
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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?
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Comment by Gracious:
WOW! Creative and unique, and meets challenge well!

The Race
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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?
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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.

The Race
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Comment by Journey:
I like this image a lot. It's just fascinating to see the intensity and concentration on the faces of the participants. Obviously, no one was posing here for you to make your shot and hence a difficult situation. You controlled it very well. And there is none of that 'too bad about such and such' that you might expect if someone less skillful had taken this. Btw, it's also a radical departure from most submissions here this week and that is appreciated also. 9

Confusion. Which Shall I Choose?
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Comment by dacrazyrn:
Great idea and original. I think the contrast could come up some . Just a bit dull in the colors. A touch more diffuse lighting may have boosted the color and made it a bit more vibrant. Not that it matters on my scores, but I hate the border.

Confusion. Which Shall I Choose?
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Comment by tfarrell23:
very good idea...done well