jennifer in hot tub, 30 second exposure
by kendall

Comment:
Critique Club critique:

Let me improve upon my previous comments:

COMPOSITION/CONTENT: Very interesting and unique blue glow over the hot tub. The two lights on the right side of the piture are what my eyes see first, since they are a contrasting color and are in a dark background. With cropping them out, this photograph becomes an excellent work and completely different. With cropping, the blue glow becomes a halo, with the center of the halo over Jennifer's head, making the blue and Jennifer the focal point of the picture rather than the lights on the right. With cropping this picture gets an 8 or 9 from me.
BACKGROUND: would benefit greatly with the right side cropped.
CAMERA WORK/TECHNICAL: unique and creative use of exposure to create the blue glow over the hot tub.
DIGITAL PROCESSING/TECHNICAL: does not need post processing other than crop.
MY OPINION: By looking at this photograph a second time, I have learned to look closer at the photographs that I am commenting on and that making comments on a first glance doesn't do anybody justice. You have a very creative and excellent photo that would have scored much higher with one little tweak. Great job!

Blue 7
by BadPigg

Comment:
Critique Club critique:

COMPOSITION/CONTENT: Excellent composition and use of light. The bottle is not only full of bubbles but also full of light. The red light around the blue bottle creates a very nice contrast and the simple shapes make the photo very interesting.
BACKGROUND: The black background adds to the richness of the light shapes.
CAMERA WORK: Exposure and focus are just right giving the picture good contrast.
DIGITAL PROCESSING/TECHNICAL: good saturation of colors.
MY OPINION: I think the reason some for the comments about the red circle around the bottle are because the red light is assymetrical and of different quality and texture than the smooth and symmetrical bottle. If you left out the red light and zoomed in on the bottle I would have liked it also, but I like it better the way you did it. You might have started something here by your creative use of light. Great job!

Icy Cold
by RiderGal

Comment:
Critique Club Critique:

(I will re-iterate and rephrase some of my previous comments since I already commented on your photo.)

COMPOSITION-CONTENT: The ice looks neat and i like it against the dark background. I would like to see more of that piece of ice at the left of the picture near the bottom. I think it might add to the picture. It is in focus about the same as the three main pieces of ice, making it part of the focal point of the photo, but not much of it is showing. Your comment on the submission says you 'cropped only to fit in the size specifications'. Maybe resizing instead of cropping could have included that piece.

BACKGROUND: The simple and uncluttered dark background sets off the shiney ice in the foreground quite well.

CAMERA WORK - TECHNICAL: Exposure is perfect, the tonal range and contrast add to the effect of the photo. Great use of depth of field.

DIGITAL PROCESSING - TECHNICAL: Turning up the blue for the challenge worked well. I would have turned down the red a little to take away the slightly purplish tint.

MY OPINION - I think it's a great subject and you did an excellent job of creating a cold and blue mood in the photo. All of the characteristics of the photo are in line with a great photo. Changing the camera angle, zooming out some, or maybe even resizing differently may have made it a great photo.

wet leaf
by shutterfly

Comment:
nice colors, the orange and blues and water. it looks like the leaf is in a bowl of some kind. if the dark part of the picture at the bottom is water in the bowl, and the bowl is blue underneath the water, i would have liked to see the blue there instead of the black. it would have kind of completed great color and quality you have in the rest of the photo.

Christmas Apple
by DougPaz

Comment:
great idea and i like the border.

Maybe I Can Sneak Into DPC2
by GeneralE

Comment:
very nice photo of the kid. the background kind of makes the photo look like a snapshot, taken spur of the moment.

Up in the Clouds
by jab119

Comment:
nice composition. i like the drilliing rig 'up in the clouds'. a little more contrast and color correction would improve this photo. very nice creativity.

Keep the home fires burning...........
by boyte1

Comment:
the flames have an interesting stop-action to them. i would like to see more flames or brighter embers to give the photo a little more kick.

light's ebb
by aelith

Comment:
i like the composition and curves in the photo. the title suggests that light is either beginning or ending, but a little more light would make the details more distinguishable.

Last Year's Resolution
by myqyl

Comment:
the photo and title make sense, but moving the white stick thing out of the corner would improve this photo. it looks good in grayscale, good choice.