Face Off
by magnetic9999

Comment:
Harsh lighting - don't much like those very bright reflections. Also i think this kind of shot needs very careful setting-up. With no other subjects whatsoever, the not-quite-symmetrical positioning is distracting.

Spring Fever
by severin

Comment:
Interesting - real delicacy to that leaf, and the composition is quite daring, and quite effective. I have to lighten my screen to see the real detail though, so perhaps a touch more light on it would have been useful.

Reflections
by mbardeen

Comment:
Good capture - and good thinking. The non-frelected skyy ruins this for me though - especially that green/blue cast from being slightly over-exposed (this may just be a personal bugbear of mine. Did you try cropping it out? I'd have thought that just the building and windows, with that one slightly open window to upset the regularity, would have made a fabulous shot. Good wrk, nevertheless.

sweet & sour
by Pep Ventosa

Comment:
That red cloth allows the green to really jump out, but it has a muting effect on the red apple - still think it's a good shot, but did you try other background colours? Like a rich deep blue, almost black is what I'd have tried. Nice shooting

Time Warp / Still Life
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Ah - neighbours again Jean-Jacques. Only you're ahead this time :-)

Baltimore Inner Harbor
by GolferDDS

Comment:
Hi Lawrence - Critique Club

A few minor points first: there's a slight quality issue (and I mean slight) but it's having aneffect here. There's so much detail in the shot that you really need to use every bit of the available image size, and entering at 100Kb isn't doing yourself any favours. That's probably what's causing the slightly blurry, slightly out of fcus look here, I think.

The light is also not helping you: you've chosen a time of day when the sky is very bright relative to the land, and obviously in order to get some definition in the buildings you've lost most of the definition in the sky. I wonder if the other end of the day might have been more effective - it seems like the light is beind the buildings here, so perhaps sunrise time (if this is sunset) would have lit across the front of the buildings more.

In composition terms ... well, there's such a lot of it to squeeze into the image - I'm not sure that you wouldn't have gained some definition overall by taking the two tallest buildings as you main subjects - we'd still ahev the water, the boats, the sky, but the great quality of the light reflected in the buildings would be more prominent, and you could lose the clutter around the right hand side of the harbour and that crane. It isn't always necessary to show all of somethng to give the best image of something, if you see what I mean.

Think I'd also have tried to wait and see what happens when there's still light in the sky and the lights in the buildings are coming on.

Nice work though

Ed

Pool of Glass
by finnur

Comment:
This is SUCH a good shot - I'm hugely envious. Didn't vote on the challenge, so din't see it until now. Fabulous work

Love Story
by ursula

Comment:
Lovely shot - great detail, texture, light ... pity about the graininess, and a real shame that i can't see that it meetws the challenge in any real sense. I guess at a push you could claim 'orange' for the one on the right ...

Drink to colors
by Becky

Comment:
It's much more intersting than the other Fruitopia shot :-)

painted hands
by tiff

Comment:
Veyr grainy - perhaps over-compressed as it's a very small file size. The lighting also seems very flat to me, which kills a lot of the interest. It's also a little ... disorganised looking: I think because the lines of the fingers, and arms, and the alignment of the paint box are too random-looking.