Winter Scene
by Coley

Comment by damelzakelly:
*Critique Club*

This photo has a good subject, nice composition, and a nicely quiet background. However, it appears that the background (snow) is quite "blown out" in the top right corner.
I could suggest that a way of dealing with the "snow blindness" would be to use a different setting (faster shutter speed(1/2000), smaller aperture (nearer to f8.0), and used a flash to light the subject you may have gotten more detail in the background while retaining detail in the plant.
Another suggestion would have been to move around the subject to the other side, which may have cut out some of the extreme lightness.
What I like most about this photo though is the composition, you could have cropped to just the "broken" stem, but you included the other stems which leads the eye from the tallest one to the lowest one (broken).

In Praise of E301 Spoon
by Coley

Comment by Bear_Music:
very clean and serene. a little more dynamic range might work wonders.

Bell and Lights
by Coley

Comment by dartompkins:
This is very nice. Interesting ornament, nice lighting and processing. I think it would have been better had you added a bit of ribbon to the top ot the ornament, but very nicely done. 8.

Bell and Lights
by Coley

Comment by Kylie:
Stunning texture, DOF and lighting. Your filling of the frame is just right and very effective.

In Praise of E301 Spoon
by Coley

Comment by ahaze:
this doesn't have the same movement and flow of the original- we don't see the same kind of lines here. The quality of the light in this image almost makes this feel like a snapshot.

In Praise of E301 Spoon
by Coley

Comment by e301:
Ha! Oh man, I have absolutely no idea how to vote on this, at all. It's a quite extraordinary feeling to see this, I can tell you - in a godd way, I assure you. I hope you'll PM me about how you set it up. As to an assessment of it ...

The one thing you've achieved here that is the kind of thing I was after in the orignal is the mad graduation of light across the curve of the spoon itself, just where the handle meets the bowl of it. Outside of that, it has a genuine simplicity that I like, but perhaps not the intensity of focus and closeness. The original is actually in a sense not lit at all - it is all reflections, rather than light falling directly on the subject - this seems directly lit, to me. Thankyou for it though, and I score you a 7.

Winter Scene
by Coley

Comment by brianlh:
very interesting and beautiful. people may complain that it looks a little blown out in the right section, but i guess it's more detail than it would be in a indoor studio! great find.

Winter Scene
by Coley

Comment by Bear_Music:
I'd be happier with this if the diagonal were not so aggressively centered, and if there were more subtle detail in the bright areas. But it is otherwise a very pleasing image.

Winter Scene
by Coley

Comment by vjoz:
I love it. wow, great, ... thanks ...

Winter Scene
by Coley

Comment by geewhy:
Stark simplicity with impact.