Apple Picker
by MrsKro

Comment:
Witty title. I like the super close up on this. I justed checked how it would look in black&white and I think it's much better. Mostly because the reddish colour if the fingers disappears. The light streaks near the apple logo are a bit distratcting (from the logo). The grain is ok. I think it looks good on this photo.
Stephan

Shaken, not stirred...
by Alecia

Comment:
Cool colours! The composition is ok but because of the transparency it looks a bit crowded. The glass also seems to lack focus. And although you pretty much maxed out (148kB) the file size, I can make out some jpeg compression artifacts, e.g. on the writing of the right bottle.
Stephan

Let there be software, and let there be enterprise architecture !
by dimitrii

Comment:
Great idea! Very creative. Unfortunately the technical part is not so good. Most striking is that the lighting of the photo on the screen doesn't fit to the lighting on your real world hands. Also the photo is a little tilted CCW. However, because of the truly original and clever idea you get a pretty high score from me.
Stephan

Moose Crossing
by mariomel

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club, Mario :-)

Initial impact: I didn't understand the title, but now that I read the other comments I get it. Clever :-) But I don't think it's hard to recognise the objects in motion as bottles, when nto understanding the title.

Composition: Very good. I like the angle and the diagonal lines from the perspective.

Focus: The contrast between motion and stillness is great. I like how the bottles are rushing by. I think a panning shot wouldn't have worked that well.
The grain is ok. Actually I like it on this photo.

Lighting/Colours: The colours are nice. The green of the bottles vs. the brown of the machinery emphasises the contrast between motion and stillness even more.
I think it would look better without the red part of the bottles but it's not distracting. But the glare in the upper left part of the photo is.

Art: I like this photo. It conveys the motion topic very well. It's also a nice industry theme photo.


Stephan

Freckles
by Frank Beckman

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club, Frank :-)

Composition: Unfortunately you didn't left any photo details, so I can only guess what you wanted to show...
At first I thought the stems are a nice thing because they make the photo look as if you shot a very rare species from a hideout ;-) But then again there aren't enough stems for that. The way it's now they're distracting.
Is this the original cropping? If not I would have tried to leave more space to the right to make the dog run "into" the frame. I think this would look much more dynamic than the centered (a little right) position.

Lighting/Colours: Th photo lacks contrast. A darker background would have emphasised the white skin much better. I like the red collar. It's a nice colour spot.

Focus: The dog is a bit blurry and could be more in focus. But a little bit motion blur or a panning effect would be better though ;-)

Art: The photo is not very interesting (at least to me). It also conveys motion not very good because the fast shutter froze the movement of the dog. Both things together proably made the low score.


Stephan

Time In Motion
by kposey

Comment:
Hello Ken, your photo was assigned to me in context of the Critique Club. So here we go:

Composition: Very strange cropping ;-) You cut the upper and the lower part of the clock which doesn't look good. Unfortunately I can only guess what you wanted to achieve because you didn't enter any details. Probably you wanted to concentrate on the pendulum. If so then I think you should have zoomed in much more. There is a lot of empty space which does not add something to the photo. But I agree with the people from previous comments that a portrait format would look better here.
Also try a different angle. I think a photo from the side would have been much more interesting.

Lighting/Colours: I personally don't like the lighting. Using the camera built-in flash directly at the subject makes the photo look a quite dull. Also, because of the straight on angle you used you don't see much shadows. This makes the photo look very flat and removes and depth from it.
Switch off the (probably automatically used) flash and use lighting from the side. Maybe a lamp you place there. You proobably will have to use a tripod then because you'll need a longer exposure time.

Focus: Most people used a motion blur effect to actually show the motion. A longer exposure time would have helped with that, too.

Art: Well, I think one reason why the photo scored so low is that it doesn't convey motion very good. In my opinion a motion blur on the pendulum would have looked good here. Maybe you'll try to reshoot the photo?


Stephan

Subway
by stephan

Comment:
Chrysalis got it perfectly right. That's what I wanted to show. I thought I could increase the impact of the motion blur and the speed it represents by placing it in contrast to the wall. I think it worked.

I don't remember exactly what white balance setting I used but I remember that I set it so that the lighting is a bit warmer. The lamps produce a slightly reddish light but I liked that in this case because the yellow of the subway came out quite nicely.

The Speed of Light
by karmat

Comment:
Very creative shot! Black&white works very good here. The only thing which bothers me is that the photo is so tilted. -stephan

Light Speed
by jenarom

Comment:
Very funny! I'm a big Star Wars fan so you get an extra point from me ;-) You did a good job aligning the TIE fighter exactly to the "laser" strokes of light. I don't like the tight crop especially in the lower half of the photo. -stephan

The Falls
by jmsetzler

Comment:
This is a beautiful photo. You did a good job with the motion blur of the water. I also love the lighting and the colour tone. -stephan