Keeping eggs warm
by pitsaman

Comment:
I don't know if this bird is real or not, but it doesn't look very real at all. The eggs look a little big for it in any event. Good Luck

Cool drink for the Hot summer
by Twocentz

Comment:
I hope that thermometer didn't just come right out of the fishtank. Good idea though to add some color to this pretty cold (colorwise) photo. DOn't know how sanitary it is though.

cooler in here
by Crafty Sue

Comment:
Generally the horizon goes horizontally across the picture.

Cooked
by GolferDDS

Comment:
I don't understand the framing of this one at all.

Blazing Sunset
by sunflower

Comment:
Badly pixelated. Needs to be shot at higher res or not cropped so much.

Danger
by BobsterLobster

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club
By Inspzil

Composition - Well I'm gonna take a stab at the question that I think you're trying to ask. "What is that bright glowing thing up there?" I don't know if that's it, but maybe its another interpretation. At any rate, I think it meets the challenge. The concept is good. The lighting of this shot is really good. The overexposure of the streetlamp and the dim light on the street are very well done and balanced where one is not too dark and the other not too bright. The subjects pose is convincing too. Good work.

Technical - I think the only thing that kept this one from getting any higher is the motion blur of the subject. Meaning you should've just froze and took the picture midstep instead of walking. It could work as a motion blur if you made it look more intentional. It's kind of in the area where it's almost intentional looking, but not quite. Exposure and framing are right on in this shotl

Overall - pretty well done. Only one thing that I think the voters had to hammer you on, and I am pretty sure they did. But I think it is a pretty good picture. The focus issue will never die here. If you don't make it look sooooo obvious that you did this on purpose, voters will think you messed up. At least half of them I believe will think that when a picture isn't crystal clear. Good luck in the future challenges - Bob

Hmmmm..... I Wonder.........
by macox

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club
By Inspzil

Composition - Well I don't think this was the most fitting photo for the challenge. Its not that it doesn't fit. I don't like the way that the keys are separated in 2 bunches, the lights and the darks. I'd have made some of the secondary light keys to bridge to the dark for a little pseudotransition. The 2 keys in the foreground should be given a little turn or something so that they look like 2 keys. They sorta look like one if you aren't looking hard enough. There is a little too much dark area here too. There are quite a few keys there, enough to fill up a little more of the frame methinks.

Technical - Not a badly taken picture at all. Good focus, the lighting differences provide a little contrast. The medium DOF is working pretty well. The bakcground keys are visible, though not really focused like the ones in the foreground. I think you used this well to get our focus more on the front keys.

Overall - I think a little too ordinary of a subject. Its not really one we are seeing in a different light or in a different way. Its just too straight up I think to do well here. It doesn't have a lot of fancy colors. I think with the key theme it might've been better to find a ring of keys with most or all of the keys the same. It really neeeds something though to make it a little more unique. Good luck in future challenges - Bob

What are those white stuff and what for?
by kenbo

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club
By Inspzil

Composition - I've seen these things before. My mom has shown me pictures of them (she is from Tokyo originally) but for the life of me I can't remember what they are or what they are for. With that being said, challenge met. I don't find the composition of this pic terribly intriguing or compelling. There doesn't seem to be any unique perspectives or angles used to show us this in a different light. You are showing us things like we would normally see them (considering we ever saw them) and I don't think that's conducive to what we, as a group, are trying to accomplish. The lighting is pretty flat, the horizon seems off in every way I think. The bottom leans one way, the top another. This is not an easy picture to figure out exactly what, if anything, is the proper reference to level to.

Technical - technically there's nothing wrong with it, but it really needs some drastic change in perspective or something to give it a little more interest. A little fill flash might have worked out for you, but that might've made the lighting even flatter. I'm not sure what to say here, so I'm moving on.

Overall - Not a terribly exciting picture. It doesn't have the sharp visual impact nor the good emotive grasp on me that is an ingredient in the superior photos. Sorry I don't have much more to say. A change in the composition would be a good place to start rethinking this. People might not be a bad option. If little kids put these on, it might've been in your best interest to capture that moment, with the right kid of course. Best of luck, sorry I couldn't be more helpful - Bob

soft sun
by DrJOnes

Comment:
Good pose and form. A classic style nude done very well. I might have adjusted the pose to make the area between the models navel and nether regions not quite so wrinkly. She OBVIOUSLY isn't fat one bit and that just looks a little weird to me. One of my top 2 for this challenge. Good luck.

Shy
by mariomel

Comment:
Like the border effect. The concept of this pic is not portraying shy to me at all. I'm not particularly fond of this photo for this challenge.