Where The Heart Is
by Imagineer

Comment:
*Critique Club*

Nice image with a lot to look at. The birds add a bit of feeling to the overall image. The focus is very good and the dof you used appears to be infinity cause everything seems to be in reasonably good focus. The trees add a lot of texture and feel to the photo, the composition is really good fits the challenge well.

Only thing I might change is something that really you have little control over. The taller buildings and the ones in the distance seem to be in a fog, but they also take from the image as you look at it. Maybe a different time of day might help.


Overall this is a wonderful image, keep up the good work.

Anna

Universal Language
by karmat

Comment:
*Critique Club*

This photo has lots of feeling. Well done and can almost hear the notes being played.

The focus is wonderful on just the one hand with the depth of field used giving the other hand a feeling of the distance across the keyboard. The composition is very nice and appealling it definately fits the challenge.

Only thing I don't like is there is a C shaped distraction near the bottom of the image in the center that seems to pull your eye down from the hands. I'm actually sitting here trying to figure out what it, if its lighting and shadows or a mark on the wood of the panio.

Overall this is a fantastic photo makes you feel like you are sitting in the same room listening to the music. Well done.

Anna

A Very Unusual Portrait
by smellyfish1002

Comment:
*Critique Club*

Definately a different look, obviously meets the challenge. Good use of macro settings which created a wonderful dof for you.

The upper lip was definately your center of focus in as much as the intensity of the texture and grains within the lip. However at the same time the amout of distortion use probably hurt you in this case cause the photo just isn't eye appealing to most. Text books call this kind of distortion "dog nosing" and warn about the use, although in this case you weren't trying for beauty you were trying for effect.


This photo was well thought out and executed equally well. Keep up with the interesting angles if nothing else it makes you think when you see them and thats what its all about making people stop and take notice =o)

Anna

Down by the Waterfront
by KimInNB

Comment:
*Critique Club*

The image itself is not bad, the buildings appear to be in very sharp focus. The composition is also very good and nicely balanced out.

My problem with the photo is the harshness of the yellow. When doing sepia tones you need to try for more of a amber color to it and less yellow. The sky is so yellow as are the shutters on the building to the left they're extremes and needed to be softened up. Changing your settings slighting when doing sepia tones will add a lot to the image.

In all the photo is in good focus and the composition is really good. Keep trying with the sepia tones and you will loose the harshness this one had and will get the real beauty of sepia tones.

~Anna~

Lancing collage
by marbo

Comment:
*Critique Club*

Reminds me of Harry Potter, even has that effect of the mystical powers which was created with the softness in the image.

The composition is wonderful there is so much to look at. The structures make you think of a kindom in a fairytale and with the dreaminess it does have that effect about it. However at the same time that dreaminess seems a bit overdone on the structures and yet the tree is overly sharp compared to the rest of the image and becomes a distracting element to the rest of the composition.

Also you have a black spot up at the top that would be easily cropped out, possibly something simply overlooked.

It does have a wonderful dreamy feel to it overall. Keep up the good work.

Anna

Cemetary in Duotone
by cmrk74

Comment:
*Critique Club*

Interesting image. It is in excellent focus, you can actually see the roughness of the stones. The shadows add some depth and feel to the photo as well.

The only thing that bugs me is the way obviously the sun was hitting the one stone. It makes me think that maybe a strange title like "I'm the Leader" might have worked better cause the one stone stands out and from detail on that stone I would even say you probably focused on it also.

I do love the cemetary photos, they have a look all there own and often take on a whole new life and meaning. This one has to be a very unique one cause it makes me think of space aliens when I look at it.

Keep up with the good work, and consider being very unique with titles, the title on this one might have made a difference cause it would have made the white stone the main subject instead of being a bit distracting in the image.

Anna

Behind the Screen
by Paige

Comment:
*Critique club*

I have liked this image from the moment I first saw it. It is definately something different and has a very unique charm about it.

The kids seem to be in good focus and the screen adds to it to give it the feel of canvas like a painting. The only thing I don't like about it is the white specks which probably are part of the screen, but they are a bit distracting and draw attention away from the two children.

Overall the image is good and very orginal, I really appreciate the ogrinality of something like this makes it stand out. Keep up the good work the orginality is unique. =o)

~Anna~

Alder Creek
by SatelliteSpeck

Comment:
*Critique Club*

Overall this has a very relaxing affect on anyone viewing it. The rocks are in very sharp focus and you can actually see the texture of the rocks when you look at it. The only thing I might have done differently is shot this at a faster speed. The falls themselves have very little texture or feel to them, they are simply wide strips of white, it very common to with falls to get that look, what you want is to get a look of "angel fingers" where there are very narrow strips of the deep white shades and strips that are almost translucent.

The photo is well composed and balanced, the eye is drawn to the center fall first and then the two outside falls. Keep up the good work it is a beautiful image.

~Anna~

The Memory of Stone
by jjbeguin

Comment:
*Critique Club*

The composition of this photo is very good. The structures do not have a case of falling over but the way you cropped may have helped with that. The sepia tones work well with this photo almost transporting the viewer back in time. It is very crisp and clean the focus so sharp. The texture is very good as you look you see that the dof used allows still see the bricks into the center of the photo.

The one improvement that might be able to be made on this is the time of day the photo was taken. Taking it between 11am and 1pm might still give you a little of the shadowing created by the building on the right but shouldn't cause as much or as dark of a shadow . The shadow even though it tends to add feeling to the photo also seems to distract. You need some of that shadowing just not as much as there is there.

In all it is a very well done photo, keep up the good work

~Anna~

Roots
by mariomel

Comment:
*Critique Club*

Interesting image the roots and tree are definately in wonderful focus and as you look at it you can almost feel the bark of the tree. The depth of field you used works as well the tree in fine excellent focus and the backround still visible and "readable" but not in focus.

As I look at it my eye is drawn to the left where the brightness is in the backround, possibly cropping out that one section of the tree would have worked and the distracting homes in the backround would be gone.

In all it is a wonderful black and white, keep up the great work.

Anna