Girls Have More Fun
by BrianR

Comment by olddj:
nice capture,

Rustic Solar Lantern
by BrianR

Comment by SteveJ:
Greetings from the Critique Club.

As an entry to the Image Grain Challenge, it certainly meets the requirements. The concept is a good and saturating to give a yellow channel lifts it from a standard B&W image to something more.

Technical.
The use of added noise has worked well, especially in the glass around the yellow light and B&W was the right way to go for maximum impact. However, the solar panels seem to have taken on a life of their own and are not consistent with the rest of the photo. Perhaps this artifact is due to saving for web.

Personal.
I like the crop, and feel more background would have destroyed the impact of the photo. The use of the rust/brown colour for the lamp lifted it beyond a straight B&W shot. The difference in the grain on the grass and that of the lamp glass makes it stand out in the terms of meeting the challenge and attracting votes. The strange effect on the solar panels definitely hurt your scores. What could have been a 7, has been knocked down to 5, perhaps 6 due to this.

A worthy effort that suffered from saving for web. This could be an area that you could look at, refine or rethink for future challenges.

Steve

Fragile Beauty
by BrianR

Comment by UNTITLED:
Interesting subject matter but compositionally no clear focal point.

Rustic Solar Lantern
by BrianR

Comment by SandyP:
I really like this. I like the close crop and the selective desat. I think, as usual, that it should have scored better than it did!

Rustic Solar Lantern
by BrianR

Comment by Germaine:
I think you have a good idea here, but those colored speckles in the top of the lantern really distract me -- they remind me of the sprinkles they put on donuts, and I doubt that's the effect you intended. 8)

Fragile Beauty
by BrianR

Comment by notesinstones:
The lighting gives this a "disney theme park" kind of feel. Neat!

Fragile Beauty
by BrianR

Comment by ajgardner:
I think it's a good shot but IMO it doesn't fit the challenge

Fragile Beauty
by BrianR

Comment by loriprophoto:
The yellowness is too overpowering for me, adding a bit of cyan and blue and perhaps a smidgen of magenta and sharpening a bit more would improve this shot while keeping the warm feeling that the yellow light is giving it.

Rustic Solar Lantern
by BrianR

Comment by loseme:
Creepy the noise in the top.

Rustic Solar Lantern
by BrianR

Comment by JunieMoon:
Didn't find the colorful artifacts on the top of the lantern as an enhancement to the photo.