Yellow Submarine
by neophyte

Comment by Lucky:
fits category, but pretty boring

Football Shaped
by neophyte

Comment by alfresco:
*A critique club comment*

Hello, I'm JP and I'll be doing your critique today. If you have comments or questions regarding this critique please feel free to pm me.

Enjoy your critique.

First impression:
Hmmmm - why isn't anyone sitting on the benches.

Composition:
The inclusion of the benches/barrier dealy in the foreground is a distraction for me, they don't add to eye flow on the image. I would suggest getting closer to and have a more "looking up" perspective by you may have been limited by the field of view of your lens. I'm a huge fan of centered compositions when they are suited by the subject, but I don't think that is the case here, it appears you didn't want to cut the tree in lower right in half during cropping, but I think it may have helped the composition by cropping just to the left of the tree (you would have to include some of the tree branches but they would have been minor).

I love the alternating light/dark/light aspect of the windows - I think it would have helped immensely to find a way to draw the eye to that aspect of the photo. Maybe a crop where just the windows are visible, showing them off and the relfection of the two buildings.

I disagree with the perspective correction comment - it's not always needed and I feel it's not needed here, skewed perspective can be a positive making the image flow, it gives a sense of height.

Technicals (color,focus,light,etc)
The focus seems a bit off, and it seems noisey ... or maybe the hues just don't seem quite contiguous in some areas of the windows. The building seems soft.

lighting is good

I think the contrast and brightness need a little boost to help make the building pop out from the nice blue sky.

Relevance to challenge:
This is a form of architecture so it meets the challenge quite nicely.

Overall:
I feel the image received a score right around where it deserves. I think with a slightly different crop and a little more color management in processing you may have added to the score.

Keep up the nice work, I look forward to seeing your future work.

-jp

Refrequented Decision
by neophyte

Comment by vtruan:
a bit too over sharpened edges to me

Refrequented Decision
by neophyte

Comment by unneva:
More contrast would have helped here. I also think that since this is a very common object it has to be photographed in a way that makes it looks interesting and even unfamiliar. You did not achieve that.

Yellow Submarine
by neophyte

Comment by bookworm:
That's sort of boring...

Yellow Submarine
by neophyte

Comment by cyan:
I knew someone would find one. sharp, clear, and a great DOF

Yellow Submarine
by neophyte

Comment by Lerin:
borderis a bit bright for me

Yellow Submarine
by neophyte

Comment by graphicfunk:
What a beauty and timely find for this challenge. Bump.

Yellow Submarine
by neophyte

Comment by Dave Gordon:
What a great subject for this challenge? Wherever did you find it?

Yellow Submarine
by neophyte

Comment by Gatorguy:
I like the sub. It's cropped a little tight on the nose end making it look crowded into too small a space. The border is too bright though. Remember that human eyes are attracted to the brightest part of an image - I don't think you wanted the border to out-compete your subject for attention. 8