Can You See My Aura?
by Sammie

Comment:
Lovely farming/ranching photo. I love shots like this! Might help that I am also a cattle rancher here in Zim but i have a soft spot for shots like this!

I enjoy the backlighting aura effect but there seems to be a little lens flare at the bottom of the shot. To me that could go.

I'm seeing stars
by LaMerry

Comment:
I like this photo. Maybe the rest of the smaller starfish would have been nice but I love the light off the water in the background. Maybe a little less reflection off the sand in the front left of the photo as well but that's all I can complain about.

The eye
by Fyzarl

Comment:
Interesting lighting and interesting reflection in the eye. I would have liked to have seen a different reflection of something clear though to make the photo have more impact?

Biting off more than he can chew
by Bethra

Comment:
I'm finding this quite hard to comment on! I like the backlighting and it def. meets the challenge.

I find the content interesting but partly because I have no idea of what it is and i just keep staring at it trying to figure it out! I'm assuming it is a cat and a vase?

What I would have like to have seen was a bit more detail on the 'cat'.

Wind Chime
by sarimili

Comment:
Composition seems a little off - either all of the heart or less of it would make it more pleasant for me. Nice glow in the centre though.

The Boss
by manic35

Comment:
Well, what to say?

IMO I don't like the subject matter - it doesn't spark any emotion in me or make me sit up to say wow!

I thnk the angle could have been done differently to make it more of an advertisment photo if you know what I mean. More of a straight on photo rather than looking down on the bottle may have done it for me.

Grass on Water's Edge
by glad2badad

Comment:
Composition seems a little off to me. Not sure why though! Maybe a bit more cropping from the top left?

Nice photo though but a little too dark, ie: not enough contrast/underexposed.

Laughter
by debbybris

Comment:
Sweet photo. Lovely fun emotion but to me a little over exposed on the right.

Short &Stubby...Long & Smooth
by angela_packard

Comment:
Critique Club Comment

COMPOSITION
Well I must admit, when I first saw this photo I was saying to myself, "What!?" So IMO it met the challenge well.

The problem that I am seeing with this photo is that while it meets the challenge it is just not holding my attention at all.

The way your photo is composed is making my eyes wander all over it really looking for a centre of interest, and yet nothing is catching my attention. The lines of the "long and smooth" just seem to be clashing at the wrong angle with the "short and stubby". It's almost as though you tried to line them up but didn't quite get it.

BACKGROUND
There is pretty much only a foreground in this photo which I'm not thinking is such a good thing. Maybe even a slightly bulky frame would have made this photo stand out more.

CAMERA WORK
I think your DOF was a little off as I didn't like the fact that the bottom left was so blurry. In fact, nothing really seems to be sharply in focus.

MY OPINION
Well, I'm afraid there hasn't been much great news with this photograph!

As I stated earlier, it did make me say "What!?" but more to the point it didn't make me say "Wow!".

Message edited by author 2005-10-31 23:28:35.

Into The Light
by buzzrock

Comment:
Critique Club Comment
COMPOSITION

I like the ring of blue and the haze around the blue light. The haze seems to lead my eyes around the light nicely and without it I am sure that it would not have had nearly the same effect.

I also like the fact that the ring is in the center of the photo as I think to have put it to one side may have taken away from the effect.

BACKGROUND

IMO I really like the way that this photo almost seems to fade into the black background.

CAMERA WORK

I think the focus is almost perfect for this photo. The only thing I wish wasn't so clear was the highlights on the circle itself. IMO they seem a little bright to me.

MY OPINION

I think that this is an interesting photo but I must say that it is not something that I would like to look at for hours on end.

As for meeting the challenge (which is a big part of what this site is all about) IMO I don't really think of a destination when I look at this image. Your title helped a lot but I still don't think it quite got it there.

Otherwise, well done!