Salmonsalad
by Mona

Comment by bruski:
This is a nice food shot. Looks really yummy. Good composition and the light is nice. It does look a little blurry, but other than that, nice image.

Salmonsalad
by Mona

Comment by TooCool:
Nice composition from textures and lines points of view....the color is kind of dull though. I think you need more lighting and you should try playing around with boosting the saturation a little (20-30% maybe?)
TC

To Heaven Or Hell ?
by Mona

Comment by pcody:
Excellent composition of a common interpretation. Outstanding.

Salmonsalad
by Mona

Comment by Neuferland:
This looks very yummy, I love salmon :) As for the shot, the cropping is off to me, if you had had more even parts in the corners, they are distracting being all different. The colors are good but for some reason I think they could pop just a bit more. I had started this at a 4 but after re=examining it I'm going to a 6

To Heaven Or Hell ?
by Mona

Comment by Artifacts:
I really like the way rail runs along the edge of the frame. That is a unique perspective. If you had rotated the image a half degree or so it would have been perfectly on the edge. Well done.

Ghosts
by Mona

Comment by photographist:
Cute. Nice composition, though I would prefer a bit more white. I think it would give the ghosts a bit more of a "spirit" feel. My 2 bits...

Salmonsalad
by Mona

Comment by GoodEnd:
I love salmons, can you send one to me! Ah, ah, ah...

Salmonsalad
by Mona

Comment by Miah:
still life, eh? more like dinner...

To Heaven Or Hell ?
by Mona

Comment by Miah:
to heaven or hell... hmm.. i would venture to guess that this doesn't travel to either. it probably travels out from the city, through some rural countryside, and then to another city and a new train station.

i could go on to explain that heaven and hell are the result of purely abstract thought. conjured up and believed. their existence is relative to the individual.

i'm not knocking your photo.. i am just having some fun.. i can be sarcastic because i'm not allowed to vote on this pictures. i would have to pay to give you a 5-6 rating. only because there are a few photos already in this particular challenge that have wowed me. so i'm biased :-/

Walk In Shadows
by Mona

Comment by Koriyama:
*critique club*

Hi, Mona,

You've got a nice, welcoming scene here. The colours are clear. I like the blues, especially. The greens and the browns could have a little more saturation to make them more vivid, although the colours you post here are probably very accurate.

The composition is pleasant, too. The path provides a nice leading line through the photo. The tree on the right and the lamp on the left provide a nice, natural border for the path.

In terms of this challenge, I don't think that you used shadows well enough to be the main feature of the photo. Certainly, there are shadows present, but they don't add or subtract from the shot. I think that this is the main reason why your shot scored so lowly at the end. It just didn't meet the challenge in most voters minds, I suppose.

Also, although it is lovely, it is rather dull. There's nothing of special interest here. You need to focus on just one aspect of the scene (for the challenge, I would have recommended the shadow) and find a composition and lighting combination that would have produced a more dramatic effect.

Best wishes,

Jim