ProV1
by g04t

Comment:
It's a bit boring this way. Subject and background are not related.
It would have been nicer when it was shot on the green, a bunker or just the grass in the park or your garden. What would add to that is a focus on the ball and using DOF to get a blurred background with a flagpole by the hole or something like that.
For this shot: good focus, but too much light on top of the ball and a light or reflective white paper on the other side could have done something about the shadow.

Morning Coffee
by lochiano

Comment:
Don't know what to say about this, but it simply does not look good. Is it focus, the strange colors?
No wait. This shot is ruined by horrible jpeg compression, the blocks are all over the plce, ruining the sharpness, the crispness, the colors, the detail etc etc.
I don't know if this was a pretty balanced shot to begin with, but the shot is 35kb in size, where 150k is allowed.
This looks like sh*t.

Red Silk with Knot and Coins
by Jak

Comment:
White balance?

90 degrees latitude
by zadore

Comment:
Test critique for "The Critique Club"

--- Composition & Background (content) ---
It is strange how my eyes react to the image. The first thing they look at is the word "Fredda" and therefore I want to know how it relates to the words "Zona" and "Sett.". But those words are blurred and that is disturbing initially.
When I look a bit better I see that the real point of interest is the mark for 90 degrees, not coincedentally (I assume) that's also a crosspoint of a rule of thirds grid. :-) But so is the knob on top and that's not a pretty item to look at.
The background disturbes me, especially the big shadow in the upper right corner and the greenish blob with a line of blue dots in it (left of "Zona"). The variance of blue above that is a good thing.
The color of the brass is ok-ish. There is something strange about the colors right of 80 and 90.
The DOF / use of aperture is ok, but when possible a wider aperture could do something about the distraction to Fredda (but it could also worsen the view on the 90 degrees mark, so it is something to try out when possible) or allow for another angle while retaining the same DOF.

--- Camera work (technical) ---
Sharpness is good.
Exposure could possibly be slightly better (_longer_ shuttertime / exposure compensation), but that is based on a gamma correction with Irfanview.

--- Digital Processing (technical) ---
There is some minor oversharpening/compression artefact around the knob. But overal it looks ok. Remember to try and push the quality to the 150kb mark, this one is only 135. Could make a small difference to the knob.

--- My opinion on the photo ---
My personal opionon about the subject is: not interesting
Emotional/story factor: low

Would I have done something differently? (Things I would try out)
I would like to see what it does to the image when the bow with the degrees on it is turned to the left to fill more of the frame and get a better balance between foreground and background.
I would like to try to get the same effect, but with more of the globe itself in the picture.
And I would like to see the effect of screwing the knob off.

toadstool
by rjgardner

Comment:
Nice, but is that a reflection of the artist?

Dancing Leaf
by JEM

Comment:
The background is not in balance with the subject. A bit disturbing. Takes away the power of an excellent focus on the leaf and the great shadows.
Somehow this reminds me of fireworks. :-)

Changes
by PM76227

Comment:
All detail is lost, because of very very very bad compression. Your pic is 70kb, 150kb is allowed. This unneccesary, because it looks like a nice one.
But in this state it is simply very bad.

Small and still beautiful
by Richi

Comment:
Focus.

daisy
by fluffy

Comment:
Horribly soft

Mexican Chapulin
by moymarquez

Comment:
Corona Beer comes to mind.