Caliente
by KevinRiggs

Comment:
Saw this as I was browsing through the results. nice work Kev. Creative.

At Last Light
by Pedro

Comment:
COngrats! Sweet shot there Pedro!

Geometry in Steel
by Neil

Comment:
I'm a little late, but congrats on your much deserved first ribbon. Excellent photo!

Gone Fishing
by JoelHSmith

Comment:
Good job Joel, I like it. Taking it at sunset would definately added something. Maybe just a little less blur on the boat too. You rock though, good luck

Unknown Soldier
by cosmic

Comment:
**Critique Club**

Hello Heidi -

I haven't done one of these for awhile, so here goes.

Reading through the comments you received, I think everyone offered you a lot of good advice. Here are a couple comments to go along with what has already been said

The idea is good, b&w is a good choice, but you have to be careful of overexposing your highlights. I recommend reading about The Zone System that Ansel Adams developed. The jest is, in a b&w photo, you will have a range from pure white to pure black with minimal loss of details in the highlights and shadows. Do a Google search on the Zone System and you will find lots of information.

Like someone mentioned below, a different perspective would have helped. The background is definately a disctraction. Maybe if you put the pawn at one end of the board and then shot down onto the piece at a slight angle, filling the frame with the board it would have helped.

Just some ideas/suggestions. I hope you find them helpful.

Regards,
Chris

Disturbed
by Pedro

Comment:
Great work P-ness!

Stairs
by flip89

Comment:
Congrats Ken! Very nice photo.

Water Falls
by LEONJR

Comment:
Hey Leon. Looks like you did a good job capturing the photo. Not sure what time you took the photo, but if you wait until later in the day or use a polarizer or neutral density filter, you will be able to use a longer exposure without overexposing. By exposing this longer, you'll get even more of a blur effect in the waterfall.

I have to agree with the comments below, the color treatment you used really hurt this shot. I better color treatment probably would have put you in the mid 5's.

Congrats on your first challenge entry.

holiday2004.jpg
by dsa157

Comment:
I'm a little disturbed by you in "fairy gear" Dave. ;-)

Other than that, great work!

CRW_5122-qt
by Nusbaum

Comment:
This is an excellent shot, David. I really liked the pose in the thumb, then when I opened it up, the first thing I noticed was the shadow on the chest, and thought it looked great. Then I read your comments, I think you're absolutely right. That shadow makes it.