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.

tAcKs iN SpAcE
by Mick

Comment:
Congrats Mick. Great idea and execution. Love it.

In nomine patris et filii spiritu sancti
by sfboatright

Comment:
congrats on 2nd. Very nice

Detention room highlights
by beaflies

Comment:
good idea, just out of focus

A Moderate Majestic Malaise
by Blinks

Comment:
looks like you tried some selective desaturation, which failed. The yellow spots left all over the subject are very distracting. Not really sure what you were going for by desaturationg everything but green & yellow. Sorry.