Rest In Peace Little Angels...a memorial to the murdered children
by TerryGee

Comment:
It is a sad story and your picture reflects it well. The black and white does add to the feel. Perhaps if you had taken the picture from a lower (more child-like) perspective you could have further accentuated the mood of the picture ? The background wall/ panels are slightly tilted which seems to be accidental and would be worth fixing by a slight rotation.

I find the balloon very centered in the frame - maybe moving it off center would have provided a more flowing composition - eye starting at the balloon, moving down and across the other memorial pieces. as it is I get stuck at the balloon and don't really look elsewhere. Hope this is useful for you.

Is Santa Claus a burglar?
by bcncrazy

Comment:
Critique Club : A funny and interesting subject. You have the subject very centered in the frame, which leads to a fairly 'static' look - as he is climbing up/ down it might look better to have framed it slightly off center, probably in the upper right, and leave some space to 'climb into' this would have also let you remove the two decorations? that are blurred out on the left hand side and distracting.

Exposure seems quite dark wihch works to give the feeling of night time. Mainly I think re-framing with an off-centered subject would make this have a much more dynamic feel to it and make it a stronger picture. Hope that is useful.

Living On Faith
by Shiiizzzam

Comment:
Hey congrats on a well deserved win.

In the Shadows
by karmat

Comment:
A good dignified portrait. Certainly better that you can't see his cardboard sign.

The lighting on his face is really harsh with the shadows - not sure if you wanted that or not. Maybe taking it from a direction with either sunlight full in his face or full not in his face would have let you expose more for him ?

Another thought in general - pay attention to the background - even though it can be hard to do. He has a traffic light poking out of his head.

I realise this is a very difficult and emotive subject choice and is difficult to think of all this sort of stuff while dealing with just taking the picture. A very good entry.

Killer Storm
by mrguille

Comment:
Critique Club Comments:

Well you sure found a great subject for a journalism shot! That certainly helped a lot I think. Makes for a very dramatic and high initial impact subject.

Compositionally, I think you could have framed this a bit tighter and maybe used the tree and 'do not cross' lines to bring the viewer's eye into the picture more strongly ? Perhaps if you were closer in, maybe more to the left side, then these elements would have lined up with the foreground of the picture and 'brought the eye' into the crushed car more dramatically.

There is quite a lot of 'dead space' to the right of the street sign and lower right in the road, which doesn't add much - so perhaps a framing with the street sign completely showing (for a reference point - rather than just the cross street) and moving the car slightly off center to add the emphasis would help ?

Otherwise this is a good entry - the exposure is a touch dark and could maybe do with being slightly brighter but a good journalistic picture.

Now and Then
by zadore

Comment:
an interesting juxtaposition of themes, with the old and new. The lighting isn't really clear enough to get the whole effect. Maybe because you used a dark lamp as well as a dark background ?

City Traffic
by nds

Comment:
A worthy winner - the converging lines lead you straight to the 'what the!' moment at the top

Bright Idea!
by crabappl3

Comment:
A hard exposure to get right but you've made a good attempt. The very black and very white subjects are at the extremes of what you could get away with and the silver on the bulb seems to have suffered a bit as a result.
It is well composed, and the glow/ halo around the bulb works quite well. I think I might have preferred it with a shorter exposure, almost to the point of just seeing a glowing filament, perhaps ?

Bright Idea
by ganders

Comment:
Lovely detail - you've got the exposure just right in this, even to the point of showing some of the filament wire. The focus doesn't seem to be quite right, though that could be the reflections on the bulb - makes it look slightly blurred unfortunately. Hard to control those reflections in this case. Good effort though.

Her Small Spirit (Lit by the Glow of A Streetlamp Outside)
by magnetic9999

Comment:
I can see what you saw in this, but it doesn't come through too well in the final picture.