Down the Drain
by crabappl3

Comment by UberFish:
The tap should be in focus, it looks too much like a bin.

Down the Drain
by crabappl3

Comment by blick:
i like this idea, i thought about doing it myself but did not. l like how you have captured the water droplets and how you placed them on the right side of the imaged instead of the middle. even though the background color disturbs me, i still find the photo appealing! good job

Leading the Choir
by crabappl3

Comment by byetko:
Nice candid shot and I love the expression you caught. Nice timing. Maybe using a wider apeture would have blurred the background and made it a little less distracting. Overall a good shot.

Down the Drain
by crabappl3

Comment by ChrisW123:
Excellent.

Outstanding
by crabappl3

Comment by aelith:
I am going to go against the grain here. I approve of the amount of shadow because it balances the space above the boxes and both work together to create scale and and a sence of isolation. All these factors add to the abstract ying/yang like character that made me laugh with pleasure when I first saw it. The only thing that would make it better is if the shadow had a straight line in keeping with all the other geometric shapes. That that was something that couldn't be controlled so that curve is just proof of reality.

aelith

Leading the Choir
by crabappl3

Comment by Natasha:
Excellent capture, wonderful expression and use of DOF, focus seems to be on the white shirt instead of her face though. Maybe the hands could have been cropped off and therefore getting of the ear behind! The lighting is a bit yellow, creating a bit of a colour cast on her hair. Great candid!

Leading the Choir
by crabappl3

Comment by Yomi:
I love the look on her face. The shot is a tad soft.

Down the Drain
by crabappl3

Comment by supersharpshooter:
beautiful.

Outstanding
by crabappl3

Comment by karmat:
CRITIQUE CLUB CRITIQUE
by Karmat

Composition -- I feel that you have chosen an excellent subject for the challenge. The blue box stands out nicely in contrast with the white ones and white wall. In my opinion, I think the overall picture would be stronger if the boxes filled more of the frame. I am assuming you may have been constrained by accessibility, but if not, a couple of things may have helped. Getting closer to them, either physically or with zoom would have helped to eliminate the dark shadow in the foreground and the white space at the top. I enjoy negative space in photographs, but there is not enough of either to really scream ns to me. I am assuming also that there is something you did not want us to see on either side of the boxes. Otherwise, a landscape instead of portrait would work to give it a more balanced feeling. Something else to consider, would it have been possible to take it from a different angle? Maybe one where you are standing at the end of the row and taking a picture of them in the straight line?

Technique -- You have used the available light well. I like the way it makes the crisp shadows from the boxes. It makes it look very interesting. Unfortunately, the same light makes the foreground shadow large and imposing. I would suggest returning at a different time of day to reshoot, or cropping the shadow out. However, if you were trying to give the impression that teh boxes were being overtaken by the shadow, that works, I suppose. the focus looks a touch off to me, which may be because the camera was focusing on the pavement just in front of the boxes, or it could be this monitor at work.

Overall effect -- Overall, I felt that this was a fair picture. You have done well at capturing a subject that meets the challenge, and the picture is well done. However, I think it needs something else to make it a bit more interesting, at least for me.

Karma

Message edited by author 2002-12-11 14:23:14.

Leading the Choir
by crabappl3

Comment by Manic:
Love the expression on this one, nicely timed candid. The positioning of the frame/crop helps add to the fact that she is looking out to the left of the camera. However, it looks as though something like NeatImage has been used, since it feels like the detail in the hair has been lost.