Detective Magazine - Bandit Discovered
by Drake

Comment by mirdonamy:
not in focus

Detective Magazine - Bandit Discovered
by Drake

Comment by peecee:
great capture but the harsh light spoils it.

Detective Magazine - Bandit Discovered
by Drake

Comment by KevinRiggs:
Cute capture and potentially dangerous work on your part. A little too much flash and since this is an Advanced Editing challenge I think you could clean up the eyes a little so that you don't get the "green eye" that animals tend to produce when flashed (ummm, errr, I don't actually know what you were wearing but I meant with the camera flash). Cute capture, tho.

Detective Magazine - Bandit Discovered
by Drake

Comment by cbonsall:
(I'm writing this to everyone who submitted a landscape shot) The challenge was to produce a shot worthy of a magazine cover but to me a shot like this is not suitable to be put on a "portrait" format magazine.


---ADDITIONAL---
Due to forum discussions and accusations that marking landscapes down is nitpicking, I'm going through them and remarking. I still think some of the landscapes would not make good covers because of their orientation but I am no longer marking down because of that.
I still think landscape is inapropriate for the majority of magazines but I'll give the benefit of the doubt to the photographers.

Detective Magazine - Bandit Discovered
by Drake

Comment by Tallbloke:
Lovely wildlife shot, although I'm marking all "landscape" shots a point lower as I don't believe they fit the challenge parameters.

Detective Magazine - Bandit Discovered
by Drake

Comment by dirtkahuna:
Nice idea, but how many magazine covers use the landscape format?

Look Out !! Fire In The Hole...
by Drake

Comment by Sammie:
Really cool picture; however, it doesn't form any sense of expectation or wondering what is beyond the confines of we can see right now.

Look Out !! Fire In The Hole...
by Drake

Comment by maciupiciu:
A little bit on the angle ant the photo would look more dynamic and less centred.

Built Strong To Last Long - Mill was Built in the 1840's
by Drake

Comment by moodville:
Wow, I'm surprised to see this all the way down here. This is a terrible score for a good image. Shocking.

Rock 'n Flame
by Drake

Comment by dr rick:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

The message
The idea this image conveys is creative. The shape of the rock is similar to the cone of a volcano, so the flame shooting from it works well. It has a nice "wow factor".

Creative choices
The background is perfect. The composition works well, as does the vertical format. Lighting from the flame is great, but the lighting on the rock needs to be more even; a fill light on the left would avoid the distracting deep shadow. Some sharpening would bring out the texture of the rock. I also think the rock would work better if it was a reddish brown; adjusting the hue slightly would be fairly easy in most photo editing programs (and legal for this challenge).

Technical aspects
Focus is fine, though a bit soft. Exposure of the flame is great, but the rock has some hot spots. Color rendition is very nice.