Rollin in the Money!!
by Yomi

Comment:
Now this is a very unusual subject to photograph. Nicely framed, good focus, nice detail on what's his name and his vehicle?

A Rare Find
by rll07

Comment:
Beautiful Colours! Love the shadow. Great lighting. The focus is right on.
What else can I say?
I don't like that shadow at the top, that's all. Very distracting. Why is it there?
In all honesty, I would have given you an eight if it weren't there.

Macro Macro
by sher

Comment:
Ah, yes. Very nice indeed. Initiative, imagination, freshness, great idea. . .
nice colours, great focus, good dof, really nice shot. Good job indeed. The detail is excellent! Very good lighting too.

Behind Enemy Lines
by arnit

Comment:
Really nice the way you've presented this photograph. I think it's one that perhaps you would benefit from showing us how you did it. Excellent color on the front chess pieces, the yellow, speckled green, white/beige.

Olive
by Jacko

Comment:
Realy nice shot, good idea for the Challenge, shows some imagination and originality.
Your lighting is just fine, creating the shadow that you obviously intended.
I like the colour that you captured of the red "eye" staring out of the Olive.
Good use of the rule of 3rd's too. A really different photograph.
I hope you score high with this shot.

swims in air
by albright1

Comment:
you've got some good colour here, focus seems okay, lighting is fine, I don't really get your Title though?

What I am you, too, shall become.
by SharQ

Comment:
What I am you, too, shall become.
By SharQ
Critique by Silver Fox

Photograph shows good imagination and thought for the Challenge.

Depth of field is good as is the composition.

A very different approach in which to place the angle of your camera lens; shows initiative and imagination.

Very clear focus on the first and second Headstone, but things seem blurry from there on; I like the way you captured the decaying features of the various Stones. Such a shame that they are ignored this way!

I especially like the coloring of the Headstones and the Walls of the buildings, both behind the Headstones and at the end of the walkway. The cobblestone walkway is all washed out.

I wonder what this photograph would look like in Black and White? Bet it would be a beauty!

The interest of this photograph lies within the viewer and the viewer as such casts the final vote.

Your finishing score of 5.4 is not that low and I don�t see anything really technically wrong with your photo so it has to be something wrong with the visual impact that kept your score down.

Keep shooting Haje; get your creative juices running, practice more, have fun, shoot, shoot, and your scores are going to go zoom, zoom!

Regards,

Ed

Redstar
by EJ

Comment:
Very nice photograph of our sea creature. Nice lighting, good focus, nice dof.
nice bright colour.

18th honeymoon
by kandyj

Comment:
18th honeymoon
by kandyj
Critique by Silver Fox

One of my favourite photographs and I got the chance to critique it! I just love the way she�s got her eyes closed!

First of all Kandice, in future I'd like to see some information on your aperture and shutter speeds, to me it�s one of the most important things to keep track of this information and to share it with us. And fill us in as to where you took the photo. Maybe we want to go there one day and cool off with our Sweet Heart! :}smiles

Okay. The Sun looks like it was directly on top of them and that makes it pretty hard to control your lighting, not much you can do about it.

The result is that you end up with the funny looking hazy/lighting behind them.

I think it looks okay, but the other problem you run into here with this photo is: see the tree branches growing out of his sweetheart�s head? That�s a �no no.�
Either move them around a bit, or move yourself around a bit to avoid this in future. Okay?

You have good composition and you have your subjects in a good pose which shows the love of 18 years between them.

Your focusing is right on with good depth of field.

Did you shoot you camera on Automatic? If on Manual, you could control the exposure yourself much better.

As I said above the visual impact of your photo showed emotion to your viewers and this is what gets you points in a Challenge.

You�ve got good ideas and imagination and all you have to do is keep shooting and keep practicing and shooting and practicing and . . .
most of all have some fun!

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Ed

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.
by SharQ

Comment:
For Sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.
By SharQ
Critique by Silver Fox

Good depth of field in the photo. It�s on a different angle than you normally see in a photograph and it works for this gravestone photograph although I would like to have seen the focus on the entire image instead of being mis-focused on the �aged� and focusing on the 9 months onwards part of the stone.

I like the colours as shown in your photograph, the mossy green of age and neglect, however, I don�t like to see the brightness of your [flash] just below the �a� and �g� on the stone, on the white chip.

The visual impact was very strong on some of the viewers, as one can read from the comments below, and I agree with them. I often spend a rainy afternoon in old graveyards reading from old stones and wondering what it would be like to lose a child who was only months old. Heart breaking, indeed . . .

Your photography shows good imagination and creativeness and I look forward to seeing more of your work in the coming weeks and months ahead.

Regards,
Ed