Snohomish Invitational GU-13 Finals
by margiemu

Comment by hotpasta:
quite blurry but good composition

Sleep Like a Baby
by margiemu

Comment by DefyTime:
Nice shot

Snohomish Invitational GU-13 Finals
by margiemu

Comment by petrakka:
overexposed/washed out, focused on the wrong player, crooked, just kinda messy lookin. at least this is real photojournalism unlike half this challenge though...

room with a view.jpg
by margiemu

Comment by bucket:
now how did you get a house to appear like that? (re:challenge entry)
I like this one even more than your window framed entry, largely because the sky is that much more dramatic..
nice work..

Snohomish Invitational GU-13 Finals
by margiemu

Comment by Melethia:
Would make a good picture in the local sports section of a paper.

just before dawn
by margiemu

Comment by DigiFotoBuddy:
Margie, Greetings from your own Critique Club.

Here is what I like about the image.

- Nice sunset picture.
- Nice composition, nice moon, nice colors

Here is what I think would have improved the image IMO

- Was the picture taken hand held? I can see the trees are not in focus, so I believe you did not use tripod. If you use tripod, you can even go 2 stops down on the shutter speed to make this perfect.
- Little more contrast / saturation in colors would be good. More saturation will bring Blue and Orange complementary colors to meet the challenge.

Best of luck for the future entires.

Message edited by author 2006-05-07 23:53:45.

Sleep Like a Baby
by margiemu

Comment by szalona:
cold colors...

Snohomish Invitational GU-13 Finals
by margiemu

Comment by Marjo:
Nice contact captured. I find the background people distracting.

just before dawn
by margiemu

Comment by Gunnsi:
Comment from a member of your own commenting club :-)
I also love sunrises and sunsets. Specially the sunrise when there are still bright stars like Venus or Mercury.
There are some good things in this picture and there are some things that could easily been done better without much trouble.
1. Your picture is only 540x329 in size. You should use the maximum on at least one side of it. In this case it would have been 640x390.
2. The picture is only 23680 Bytes. Believe me I know the trouble saving pictures in Windows (don't have PS now) and loosing information. Maybe your picture was sharper before saving. It is best to use all the 150KB when you can.
3. Using rule of thirds, The moon and the star, wich are the main topic in the picture should be a little bit more to the left. The hight of the moon and star are fine.
4. Lovely colours but I would like to either see a bit more of the mountains (brighter) or make them as dark as the trees.
5. Focus, It is hard to see if the focus is bad or if it is because of the jpeg compression. I know it can be hard to focus near things, like a tree, trying to focus the moon at the same time. Doing this you have to have the trees in a distance, as much as you can. If you want to have full focus on the moon and see its landscapes you have to have about 200 in shutter speed but then everything else turns black in the night.

Message edited by author 2006-05-10 20:23:17.

room with a view.jpg
by margiemu

Comment by yanko:
Very nice. I wish I had that window and view! My neighbors are too close. :(