Jet
by cryingdragon

Comment by 777STAN:
Water you waiting for?... Drink! :)

Jet
by cryingdragon

Comment by Blackbox:
Ok...10

Jet
by cryingdragon

Comment by raish:
This is either too abstract (for me), or it is wht it says it is. That sort of takes it one side or the other of the goal. Challenge is a tough call. 5

Jet
by cryingdragon

Comment by EricMGB1974:
Fascinating capture and I like the color palette but I wish the top of the water jet wasn't cropped off.

Back and Forth
by cryingdragon

Comment by lifternessjt:
*Critique Club*
Hi Mike!
Your pic was assigned to me for the Critique Club, so I'll comment on your submission.
Firstly, what your picture made me feel: With the title, you get the feeling of hard work. Your rope is used to work. Pulling, all day long. Then, you put it away for the day. Winding it up. Almost got to smell the dirt on it.
What I like about the pic: I like the texture of the rope in the in-focus part. I also like the rythm of the coils.
What I like a bit less: As stated, you should always make your pic as big as possible, using the max dimensions. There's a tutorial on the site you can review. I'm also wondering how the pic would've looked if you'd inverse the DOF, making the foreground in focus and the background OOF, because the eyes starts at the foreground and is led to the back coils. It just seems a bit odd to start your eyes with something out of focus. I dunno, wondering.
You have met the challenge perfectly with this concept, but I feel there's a bit more work to be done technically. Not a bad image though! Keep it up!!!

Candlelight Katana
by cryingdragon

Comment by darnok:
Nice shot, I feel you managed to make peaceful an implement usually used for battle.

This would work well if you fix the composition up a bit. The candle over the tsuba bothers me a bit. I would have put the katana on the top horizontal thirds line, and the candle on the bottom right thirds intersection point. The handle looks a bit strange to me, don't know if that is due to the lighting or if it's just the way the handle is.

Frosty's rarely seen little brother
by cryingdragon

Comment by darnok:
Cool idea. Would have done much better if it was sharper and the noise was cleaned up.

Back and Forth
by cryingdragon

Comment by srdanz:
One thing that possibly hurt your image is the size - always go with the max allowed. Yours was probably under 400x400, and you could have gone full size with this square crop.

Another issue is the rule of 3rds - you went with the 50-50 vertical split. It might have been more appealing if you dropped the bottom quarter of the image, achieving two things: 1) more pleasing composition and 2) less of the OOF subject in the crop.

Hope this helps!

Jet
by cryingdragon

Comment by photoslik1967:
I like this photo. The color is exceptional.

Jet
by cryingdragon

Comment by rinac:
Wow! Great timing.