Nicollette
by njsabs

Comment:
A beautiful portrait of a beautiful girl :) If I was going to nit pick - I'm not keen on the arm/hand, I think either being able to see fingers on the cheek or not have it at all might be better. But overall a great image :)

Cool Portrait On A Hot Day
by 1m1A

Comment:
Love this! Less keen on the rectangular vignette effect:(

Cody
by ThatChickOverThere

Comment:
I love this so much, a beautiful, beautiful timeless image.

Complimentary
by drick172

Comment:
Hi Daniel from the Critique Club

You did an awful lot right for this image - the eye is invariably the point of critical focus and you worked on that. The background is pleasantly uncluttered, as you planned with your shallow depth of field.
Unfortunately the composition lets the image down, no harm in not including some of the wing if the subject of your image is the butterfly's eye, however losing just a bit of the wing looks careless rather than planned. The area of focus is underexposed for proper appreciation, and whilst not necessarily always a problem, the central placement weakens the composition in this instance. Outside of basic editing you could selectively lighten the eye area and maybe with a closer crop (possibly the left third) you could have a very lovely image there :)
In relation to a 'pink' challenge, there was certainly some lovely pink there although maybe not the main subject of the picture.
In summary, an image to re-edit to reveal it's full glory :):)

Hope that helps, feel free to PM me with any questions or comments.

H O M E : Flinders Street Tunnel 9:50:55 am
by hotpasta

Comment:
Well done, an excellent image :)

Fascination or Fear
by apbyj

Comment:
Critique Club
Hi Julie, welcome to DPC and your first challenge entry :)

First thoughts
A lovely simple image

After some time with the image
The trouble with challenge voting is that there are so many images and often we don't give them the time they sometimes need. Your image is a good example of the value of taking time - there seems so little there and yet there is so much to look at. The composition of this image is excellent, ok maybe a slight loss of focus, but hey, you were scared, I like to think maybe it was you, shaking with fright- see,the picture's starting to tell it's story ;)
It's coming towards the end of the day, the spider is catching the last of the sun's rays and his work is not yet finished. Work or die little spider....

Overall
This was a brave and brilliant entry for your first challenge. An image doesn't have to be technically perfect to be fantastic. A low score doesn't mean it wasn't a good picture. Keep taking pictures, I look forward to seeing more from you .
:)

Levitating Squares
by robinegg

Comment:
Critique Club

Hi Robin :)

First impressions
A dynamic, colourful image.

After some time with the image
You've created an image full of magic that fits in well with the theme, the set up and composition are good. Whilst the lights do add a great deal to the image I can see that all those circles within the confines of a square challenge could have lost you a few points. You mention focus, specifically the cube, it's difficult to tell but with the image at this size the focus seems fine and any drop off in sharpness is probably due to the small depth of field that you would have got with an aperture of f1.8.
A commenter mentioned the blurry hand and that is probably more of an issue, motion blur would have been fine but this looks like movement blur of a hungry husband expected to keep still for 1/50sec ;)

Overall
A creative image that has worked well, you were constrained by time and the prospect of basic editing, so you can only improve on this already good image.
:)

Flying
by posthumous

Comment:
Oh, I thought the flower was dreaming of being a tree, I can see his dream, blurrily behind him....

Morning Coffee
by gbautista87

Comment:
Critique Club

Hi Garret :)

First impressions
Interesting depth of field, nice tones.

On reflection
Still lovely tones, good composition and meets the circle challenge well. The shallow depth of field works well to emphasise the focus of your image. The loss of detail in the hands is unsettling, a commenter mentioned noise reduction and I agree that it does look like that has been heavily applied, however as it's not in your PP notes it must be as a result of the shallow DOF and the overhead flash. The other unsettling thing is the lack of catchlight in the coffee, again it could be explainable by the set up, but the two things combined give an unreal feel to the image. Sorry if that sounds like I think the image is fake, just sometimes a paticular set up of lighting, aperture etc works better than others. Some of your commenters liked the softness so you can see we're in the area of subjectivity here ;)

Overall
A nicely toned and composed image that fits the challenge well. The softness of parts of the image will appeal to some and not to others.
:)

Disco Glass
by XkcerMan

Comment:
Hi Doug from the Critique Club!

First impressions
Oooh!

After a bit of consideration
Your image is colourful and well composed, each area acts as an image in it's own right giving your eyes a real feast! There is the problem of entering rectangles in a square challenge and I suspect that might have lost you a bit on your score.

Overall
You've seen something that's interesting to look at, framed it in your camera and shared it with the world, and that to me is great photography. Well done on your first challenge entry and I hope there will be many more :)

Message edited by author 2009-08-12 13:25:44.