Auld Lang Syne
by kenbo

Comment by Davenit:
Hi Kenbo, greetings from the Critique Club!!! There are a few comments that come to mind on this shot.
The first is perspective. The image is crooked. You might have meant to do it, but it won't work with all the horizontal and vertical lines you have present.
The second is noise. Since this is a night shot there is a lot of noise present. Sometimes there is nothing a shooter can do about it. In my case with my D-30 higher ISO shots incur noise. So when I run into those situations I have two choices. To shoot or not to. Most of the time I choose not to becaue noise ruins shots in my opinion.
The third is subject. I am not really sure of the subject of this image. I think it is the lighted tree reflection but which one? My eye goes to the one that is blown out and that is not the kind of feature you want a viewers eye to go to.

I have to give you credit. You picked one heck of a song to try and shoot. I couldn't have done it. I can't think of a real good image that could represent that song. Keep shooting. Experience makes everyone better. Listen to a lot of the people here. They are very good at this stuff.

If you have any comments or questions about this critique please email me... Thanks

Dave Nitsche

yachts at rest
by kenbo

Comment by inspzil:
I don't get it. The photo isn't even oriented landscape. - Inspzil

yachts at rest
by kenbo

Comment by basia03:
i don't see how this fits the challenge category...

yachts at rest
by kenbo

Comment by mariomel:
I don't get it? I don't think this meets the challenge.

yachts at rest
by kenbo

Comment by Lustre:
It's an ok photo, but I'm having trouble fitting it to the landscape theme - perhaps a long shot showing all off boats would have been more "landscape" like, or you could try to get just the landscape of that rudder?

A Pythagoras or a Freud?
by kenbo

Comment by indigo997:
Yet another photo that probably suffered from people just not "getting" it. I think that it could be cropped a little tighter and probably lit better. The shadows seem really dark. The little guy is really cute. He is very centered which doesn't usually work but, since there are three potential subjects in the photo, it works ok here. Interesting shot that makes you think but doesn't really have the "wow" factor needed for high scores around here. Creative take on the challenge. Good photography skill. I think you could have come up with other interesting settings for the same little subject - putting him in the foreground and using shallow DOF - that could have probably scored higher.

yachts at rest
by kenbo

Comment by ChrisW123:
Nice picture but not really landscape. Although the barnicals on the rudder do look like a forest from 5000 feet.

yachts at rest
by kenbo

Comment by terik65:
Not sure where the landscape comes in.

yachts at rest
by kenbo

Comment by tigescoug:
landscape?

yachts at rest
by kenbo

Comment by kiwiness:
The photo is good but it isn't a landscape.