Path Through the Greens
by paganini

Comment:
I hope you understand when i say that this seems to be more about the path than the greens - or perhaps the tree trunk. It's a lovely photo, especially the texture of that three trunk - but the interest for me is all in the non-green stuff. Had it been me, I'd perhaps have under-exposed a stop or so, just to saturate the colours more - but then the muted contrasts here are such a strong part of the image.

orange
by katiedid270

Comment:
Kind of nice idea, but there area couple of things that are killing it for me. Firstly, the flash lighting - really flattens things out, and leaves that very brutal shadow. Secondly the placing of the parts of the shot - and especially the lower surface: if you'd shot from a little lower you wouldn't have had the table in shot and there would have been more of just the colours.

Raesfelder Castle
by kiwiness

Comment:
Critique Club

I don't think there's much to criticise here! It could be sharper, and for me perhaps a fraction shorter exposure to hold the burnt out sections, but it's really a very good postcard shot. I think photographed a little earlier or much later in the day might give you more warmth and gentleness from the light, but catching it with the sun level with that side wall has a good effect in it's own right.

Control over the sky colour is excellent - did you use a graduated filter for it? Given the brightness of the castle, I would have expected the sky to have lost more tone than that.

Excellent work.

ed

Recurring Primaries
by Malokata

Comment:
By far the best of a really not impressive set of entries - geat lighting, though the slight over-exposure is a minor issue: that yellow's bleached out quite a lot, though obviously much shorter a shutter would perhaps have left the dark too dark. Texture on the basket is wonderful.

Blue Dragonfly Meets Mellow Yellow
by paganini

Comment:
But it's black ... :-)

Primary Coatrack
by myqyl

Comment:
Whoa, steady on the bordering there! way too much ... Nice photo behind that, but it really distracts from it.

Beach Huts
by hughletheren

Comment:
Nice shot, though it feels washed out a little by the over-exposure. less time would have saturated the colours more. Good work though, has potential.

Balloons
by WILDBLUE

Comment:
Well, it made me stop for a moment, at least. I don't think though that there's anything I really like about this - as an abstract shot there's obviously nothing wrong with it at all - in fact there's a lot that good about it, but I just don't find it interesting. For me, just as a grat subject poorly photographed is still a poor photo, a well photographed poor subject is still a poor photo.

Blue Tower
by Sonifo

Comment:
Well, i know it scored pretty well, but this was my favourite of this challenge and I'm still disappointed for you - as others have commented, it's that lighting. Should have been further up there. Perhaps because it isn't really about the glass, it's about the flower, but it's still a great shot.

Ed

Tall Ship
by bcarp

Comment:
Critique club. Hi Brian

A little more shooting information would have been useful!

Image quality is a pity - all that jpeg compression gives it an out-of-focus feel that is quite annoying to my eye.

This is a snapshot, really - that's the problem I have with it: those people on the tower bottom right, the house the other side, the steamer partially obscuring the ship but only partly visible, the tall ship placed absolutely dead centre frame - all conspire to give the impression that not a great deal of thought went into the composition of the photo. The lighting is quite flat - appears to be the sun behind you, which will always limit any feeling of depth.

for all that, it obviously fits the challenge, and there's a certain stillness to the image that's quite interesting - I think you scored pretty well, really. I see from checking your profile that it's your first entry - plese don't be discouraged - I remember from mymown experience that the low seeming scores are diappointing at first. This really did pretty well.

ed