Pepper Grinder and Peppercorns
by jodiecoston

Comment:
I think in a composition that look for purety and perfection vertical lines should be vertical , the grinder looks a little tilted to me and it distracted me right away. It was one of the first thing I saw in the picture. Otherwise I like the composition and the colors. Maybe a lttle too much reflection. 6

Blind Faucet
by jenarom

Comment:
Nice colors and contrast. I like the composition ... except the head being aligned with the vertical line in the blind. I think you should have tried to avoid that. 6. Lionel

Liquid Life
by Tarbini

Comment:
Very intriguing shot. I guess it's the level on the left, I do not know if could have avoif int one way or another (back piece of paper?)? I think it makes the shot 'unbalanced' even if a perfect simetry is not always good it makes the right part 'empty'. But very intriguing and nice shot. 7

Perfect Dinner
by arnit

Comment:
I think it's really too busy for this kind

Whatever the future holds ....
by willem

Comment:
I would just have framed a little less of the bridge and a little more of the trees. But nice picture.

Please Don't Take my Mousie Again!!
by kandyj

Comment:
I have been assigned this picture by the critic club and have been looking at it everyday but I keep going back to the same thing :
- it's not despair to me, not at all
- it's an other cat

The photograph commented him/herself that the forepaw is not in focus and the cough fabric too much in focus. that would have been my 2 comments in addition to the fact that that fabric is not appropriate at all for a cat picture I think.

Final Impression : I do not think it was an appropriate picture for 'despair' and , to me, it's just a "cute cat".

Lionel
for the critique club

Who? Where?
by Jean

Comment:
FIRST IMPRESSION : WAOWWWWW, that's going to be a tough one

COMPOSITION : First I'd like to compliment for the creativity and the imagination for this challenge. That's so .. I do not know ...
Perfect use of negative space, perfect tones in whites and light greys. I would not have wanted a pure white background. It has a reminiscence of like a greek statue , not in the position obvisously but in the tone and the textures.
I do not know if it's intended but my eyes are attracted by the eye of the boy.

TECHNIQUE : Nothing to say but I can guess that catching correctly the light and the still present details. I am impressed by the details we can see with such tones and in that resolution.

Global impression :
Sorry, I susually try to comment a little more but this is so outstanding in the picture itself, the challenge, the imagination to do it that I am a little speechless.
If one day I do not like that ... that would justify all the pictures that were just 'ok' that I might have done.

At the top of the top.

Lionel for the CC club

Souvenir
by lionelm

Comment:
Ellen, thank you so much for your wonderfull comment.
The 2 little girls are effectively from an Ambrotype I found on the web.

Your comment about the perspective is correct although I do not know what I prefer. I will do try so they 'stay in their windows' and see how it looks.

I did not want to do too much photoshop editing. So it's just the window from that house, and the ambrotype cut in 2 Parts and merged with layers into the shutters. The snow is the actual one that day.

I am happy you you noticed the eyes on the wider splat, I wanted to have some focus on them. Nobody knows what they are watching or saying or thinking. But somebody sad happened. Not real bad but very sad. The shutters are closed, the house is empty, this time does not exist anymore.

A thought that has occured to me after I had done this picture is that it reminds me of the twin sisters in the movie 'Shining', the way they stare at the little boy from the past, ghosts.

Thank you so much Ellen
You are doing a wonderfull job
Lionel

Message edited by author 2003-02-09 21:29:31.

Private road only.....
by kiwiness

Comment:
FIRST IMPRESSION : simple, give almost a duotone picture, Good depth of field. No waow factor.

COMPOSITION : The cropping might be a little too tight and I am wondering how it would have looked with just a little bit of space so that the sign does not seems to 'sit' on the horizon line. Maybe would have been a little better.

I like the colors, very simple.
Maybe the 'stuff' in the lower left corner is a little distracting.

No WOW factor (but it does not need to have one :-) but more looking at the picture I like it more.

The sign by itself is very nice, beaten and torn.

TECHNICAL : VERY GOOD usage of Depth Of field, the sign is fully in focus zhile the rest is blurry. This makes a little less important my comment above as the sign is sepaarated at least in term of depth from the background.

DIGITAL : no sign of digital processing = good.

My Opinion : I like this photo better now that I have spent some time on it. It brings a lot of 'rural' feelings and connotations.
And the depth of field is very significant in that case. Congratulations

Lionel, for the Critique Club

Farmscape
by KrazyKat

Comment:
FIRST IMPRESSION : NIce landscape, nice barn, nice colors.

COMPOSITION : Nice composition! I lile how the trees give a sense of depth to the picture. The tree on the left distract me a little in a sense that I would prefer to see more of it. .. or less of it (maybe to remove the piece of blue sky in the left of the tree).
The picture seems to me a little unbalanced vertically, I think I would have prefered a little less of the sky and more of the grass in front of the barn. I feel like I am 'hitting' the barn right away when 'entering' the picture. It is reenforced by the two black areas that convey some agressivity as well I think.
Nice colors and nice opposition green/reds

TECHNICAL : Nothing special. I wonder what the shot would have been with more details in the black area but it does not distract me too much.

DIGITAL PROCESSING : not visible if any = good

MY OPINION : Fit the 'landscape' challenge to even if the barn obviously draw all the attention. Still .. it is iwithin a landscape .. not a pure match to the challenge but well enough !
I like the picture, my main comment would be that you could have step back one step or 2 to have a little more grass in front of the barn.

Good job
For the Critique Club
Lionel