What's the point?
by goodtempo

Comment:
great negative spaces! Very graphic, like it a lot - why did you pick grey for the background colour ?

Elizabeth
by titotapado

Comment:
too close! for good people close-ups you want to use the telephoto end, not the wideangle side of things - less feature distortion

High Strung
by briansquared

Comment:
love the shallow field - grey background is dissapointing

A macro ghost
by angel

Comment:
the longer I look, the more ghost I see !

Vertigo
by rdesai

Comment:
nicely composed, draws the eye in. Lighting might have been better more even, or harsher - one extreme or the other.

Luscious
by Alecia

Comment:
Very saturated colours - makes me want to eat it! I think I'd like to have seen the whole shadow and perhaps a whiter/ less grey background. Very crisp macro

90 degrees latitude
by zadore

Comment:
good background choice, great selective depth of field, well composed in the frame

Early Christmas Cactus
by NHCameraMan

Comment:
well taken macro, though the background lets this down - too grey/dark

PALATABLE COLOURS
by Ptman

Comment:
The new Critique Club: Test Critiques #1

Initial impression : A wonderful riot of colours that 'sets the scene' of a painting palette very well.

Technically the diagonal placement of the brushes gives some movement to the picture, though
the slightly soft/ out of focus brush in the lower left is a bit annoying. The brown brush ends up
as the center of interest and my eyes keep coming back there and working through the implied
triangle between that and the other brush. Again the softness gets in the way.

I think I might have preferred this with some paint on the brushes as it feels too setup - there is a
difference between a setup shot that looks setup and a setup shot that doesn't!

You might have been able to tweak the contrast/ saturation of this shot a bit and made the colours
even more vibrant but they are strong as they are and that could be the vagaries of monitors
making an impact.

Overall a very strong entry and a good close-up. Certainly trying to keep more elements in the plane
parallel to the lens might have kept more of the shot in sharper focus, as there doesn't seem to be
much motivation for more selective DoF control in this particular instance.

Gordon - feel free to disagree or contact me to continue a discussion

Reading
by hardwaybets

Comment:
Great way of highlighting with focus. Nicely done.