Hello ma baby, hello ma honey, hello ma rag time gal. Send a kiss to Steve Davidson by wire....
by tolovemoon

Comment by aznym:
I am pretty sure charliebaker would understand this title.

Caught now, those are HOT!
by tolovemoon

Comment by suemack:
I love the grin on his face!! What a gorgeous little man he's growing into.

Hello ma baby, hello ma honey, hello ma rag time gal. Send a kiss to Steve Davidson by wire....
by tolovemoon

Comment by cutlassdude70:
Creative idea, but it seems slightly out-of-focus and the lighting seems a bit snapshot-ish. If you wanted to shoot this particular subject (i.e. the frog), it might have helped if you zoomed out slightly to include the whole frog and also changed your angle so that we can see more of the face. After doing so, some post-processing could have helped it "pop" a little more. For example, some Levels adjustments in Photoshop and maybe some dodging and burning could have helped draw the voters attention towards the subject and away from the background. But again, kudos on creativity though. :)

At the cross, where I first saw the light....
by tolovemoon

Comment by bucket:
love the lighting in the upper corner..has quite the spiritual effect..

Where did you get the white line?
by tolovemoon

Comment by ceuthophilus:
The genus Leptoglossus (Coreidae).

Do It Yourself, Decorating with feathers!
by tolovemoon

Comment by strangeghost:
Greetings from the Critique Club
by strangeghost

The first three parts of this critique are written based purely on examination of your photo. "Final thoughts" is written after reviewing your score, photographer's comments, and voter comments.

TECHNIQUE
Nice focus and oof background (but not too oof). Nice control of the tones. The blacks are really black without a loss of detail. The white of the guitar face is awfully big and bland, but there probably wasn't much detail there to begin with, so OK. Tack-sharp with detail on the shoe stitching. My only real technical beef is with the lighting, which looks pretty flat and may have been on-board flash? It's hard to suggest how this might have been better lit though. See comments in composition.

COMPOSITION
I fully realize what a tough challenge this was, with a limited selection of objects to choose from, but this composition leaves me feeling "so what?" A shoe with a feather stuck in it, another feather on a scrunchie (?) and a feather stuck in a guitar. There's no logic or purpose or excitement presented, it's all just kind of there. The unusual angle was an attempt to add some imbalance or drama, but didn't really do it for me. I like the addition of the guitar, but again, it's hard to see the logic that holds them together, other than your title, which leads me to the issue of humor. Is it funny? Well, it's got potential, but you didn't get a belly laugh out of me. My guess is that you were struggling for a response to the challenge and threw this together as a last minute entry. There were probably creative solutions that you could have found to the humor issue, but I can hardly speak to these since I (ahem) didn't enter this challenge. You know what they say about people who live in glass houses not throwing stones...

EMOTIONAL IMPACT
Nope. I don't think so. Technically excellent but emotionally ho-hum.

FINAL THOUGHTS
Your photographer's comment answers my "why" question. I was sorta correct, I guess, about your rush to get an entry together. Your final score of 5.0 is probably a bit of a disappointment, but not bad given the relative indifference of the voters (only 4 comments). Like I said at the outset, this was a tough challenge to enter, and I personally didn't even take a shot, so bravo to you for jumping in.

DIY Using feathers to decorate...
by tolovemoon

Comment by tolovemoon:


Message edited by author 2006-03-20 01:47:03.

Do It Yourself, Decorating with feathers!
by tolovemoon

Comment by fotomann_forever:
The guitar actually adds a lot to this imae IMHO

Do It Yourself, Decorating with feathers!
by tolovemoon

Comment by kari1:
The guitar seems a slight overkill to the shot.

Do It Yourself, Decorating with feathers!
by tolovemoon

Comment by Bud:
The angled composition is interesting, but does not seem to do well with this image.