Bamboo Leaves
by sgauria

Comment:
The subject is very centered and the background is a little distracting as its not totally blureed but has a lot of details.. also the contrast ( color ) is not there in foreground and background. the subject itself looks blown out..

Emilia in the window
by lastef

Comment:
Hello from the critique Club :)

First look at the photo doesn't really say its a portrait as I am distracted by the other elements in this photo. For one, the right third of the photo is predominantly occupied by blown-out outdoors which serves no purpose.

A portrait should be such that it draws the attention of the viewer to the subject and let it be distracted. From your description, you wanted to portray her nature about looking out the window, but even in this case, donot let the window steal the show, it can be a part, but just a minimal part, for reference only and the major part should be yout cat.

This is one quick and dirty fix trying to remove some of the distracting elements from the photo


If you have any questions please feel free to pm me
thanks,
Gaurawa

Picture 032.jpg
by Travis99

Comment:
Nice colors.
where is this ? may be this is common, but I remember visiting santa cruz last weekend and i saw the same intersection, water st and market :D

Picture 041.jpg
by Travis99

Comment:
I don't much like the burning of the sky ( with desaturation) here... also you can see halo around the boat (where boat meets sky) which is very distracting and gives away that it was burned in photoshop. You need to be more precise on edges when you burn

triple-ply TP
by aplomb76

Comment:
that's gonna hurt ;)

too many
by ericsuth

Comment:
wow, you arranged all these ? thats a tough job !!

On the verges of sanity
by nico_blue

Comment:
hmm this says "this photo has been validated" so that makes me wonder why was this called for a proof in the first place.. may be I am mising to something :)
I like this... 7

The Lone Cypress
by gaurawa

Comment:

Originally posted by Zoomdak: I looks as though a line is attatched to the tree and going down to the right. What is that?

Not sure what is it. I thought it won't get noticed and didn't clone out, but now I think I should.

Snow Bells
by sher

Comment:
I like the duotone conversion.. Can you tell me which color you choose in duotone ? I am always confused about what to do

The beginning of defiance
by mlhop05

Comment:
got to this photo from "a bomb from nowhere " thread...
beautiful model and I would say a good pose, but the quality of the photo is not so good which is why you can see it didn't score well...You need a better lighting, the image looks like its underexposed and if you try to use levels/curves it will make it noisy as I can see here.. most likely you used not so bright light and camera was at a high ISO setting...also the white balance is a little off giving a yellow cast to the whole image.
this is my attempt at editing...