Bowls
by FranziskaLang

Comment:
Beautiful high-key. A few blemishes (backgroumd, the stacking could be more even), but ne'er mind. well done! (8)

B is for Butterfly
by agwright

Comment:
That border hurts my eyes. The picture itself is great. (4)

Beer!
by pinback

Comment:
Well, actually.. It is ale..

Feeling blue
by p_johns

Comment:
You are going to lose points for bad handwriting, here :) Just kidding. Fabulous execution - great work! (9)

Another Cold One
by miller

Comment:
The speed and texture in this is amazing. Slightly over-sharpened to my taste, but still lovin' it. (10)

Big Brother
by mbardeen

Comment:
Pretty, but looks filled with coke rather than guinness. *tuts* ;) (8)

Beautiful Bride
by boyte1

Comment:
Beautiful, certainly. But I miss eye contact, and the background is too in focus. (7)

What are you looking at?
by deadbird

Comment:
The sharpness is incredible, and the bales of hay and the tractor add to it a lot. Cool. (10)

Off-Centred Chair
by DavidLevin

Comment:
(Critique Club)

Hey there!

Made me think:
This image has some strong connotations. The light shining through the top window has a sincere feel to it - almost spiritual. At the same time, it enlightens something; The fact that something is missing; Shouldn't htere be someone in that chair? It makes you think that perhaps the person who was in the chair has passed away, and gone to heaven (hence the light), or something similar. A great photograph in that respect.

Title:
A bit boring, to be fair.. If you had called the image "where did She Go" or something that made people think about the image, you might have found that more people were willing to forgive the technical mistakes in this image

Composition:
The books in the background are less than optimal, and I realise the challenge is a bit restricting in itself, so I guess the composition is all right.

Technique:
Focus problems and possibly motion blur. There really isn't any excuse for this, and this is what has cost you a massive amount of points. Sorry to say, but yes. Try to get more used to your camera by taking more pictures with it.

What could be done to rank higher:
Technique. That's all. Had the image been sharp, it would have been 5+, I reckon.

Cheers,

Haje Jan Kamps
www.photocritic.org

Lookin' For My Place in this World
by karmat

Comment:
(Critique Club)

Hey there! A fabulous closeup shot indeed. So much, in fact, that it is
very difficult to give you any good critique, but here goes nothing..

Composition: I really like what you did here. Your right-focusedness combined with the blurry background are beautiful. If anything, I would try to use a more even surface (black sheet of paper or similar)

Technique: Technically a difficult, but well done shot. I would have a look at the way you compress your pictures, though - this picture is 128 kb, and you can tell there are JPEG artifacts in the blurry part in the background. Why not attempt to use some more of the allocated 150 kb and get rid of the artifacts? Great work, though.


Creativity: What can I say? Great!

Made me think: Not really. The picture has very little emotional value to me, and raises few questions.

What could be done to rank higher: The picture is certainly aestetically pleasing, but doesn't make anybody think. While being a good picture technically, it seems to lack the human touch that would nudge it from being a good work of photography to a great work of art.

Cheers,

Haje Jan Kamps
www.photocritic.org