Branching Art
by Bus352

Comment:
** Critique Club **

Carlton Johnson
Sony DSC-F717

Branching Art

Gorgeous colors, Branch at top overlapping is awesome! It gives the photo more dimension. You captured the shadows and highlights on wallin a fantastic way. Artist in photo is an added good thing

Artist is too bright and has hot spots on her. She has potential to be as colourful as the wall, with the paint on her pants, and the bright coloured shirt. The backpack could have been moved for the photo, when you asked her permission to take the photo.

All in all this photo has more positive things than the slight negative thing and all in all a VERY delightful photo!

Congratulations

Endeavor
by lilylily

Comment:
** Critique Club **

Lily
Gateway DC-T50 5.25 megapixels

Endeavor is a photograph that has excellent potential. The prospective is good, and you caught the tree at a spot that fits the Title.

The photo has a very, very tight DOF though, and hides all that. Is it possible that your camera was set on fixed focus or on a macro mode? Is it possible that your autofocus is off and needs repairing? This would explain part of the problem. I would like to see other photos from this camera to see. The Focus problem hides the Endeavor.

The coloring is off I believe because of the focus problem. The part that I do see in focus looks to be spot on for coloring with this type of tree.

The crop of the photo could be improved slightly, the branch coming off and up to the top of the picture is distracting and in shadow so it does not look pleasing to the eye. With a tighter crop this would be removed.

Good luck in future challenges :) I̢۪m sure that your future challenges will do well :)


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Attitude
by shutterfly

Comment:
Excelletn photo, love the lighting and colors of this photo.

Back to School
by vtruan

Comment:
This is more a photograph of a boy doing his homework and not beign happy about it than a portrait.

Little braids
by pacpinto

Comment:
Cute little girl :)
Her eyes arent clear and sharp. When you do a portrait the eyes are very important.

Joe.
by johannes

Comment:
I'm sorry, but to me this looks like a jail house mugshot. The veins on his arms look dirty rather than like they are actual veins.

Shangri-La
by jmsetzler

Comment:
beautiful colors in this photo.

Aiden
by cowcollect

Comment:
Nice posing He looks cute posed that way :)
The background is distracting though with the chain link fence top coming out of his neck. and the light behind the fencing above that drawing the eye away from the young man. the light on the right side of the tree is again drawing the eye. movinghim to the middle of the tree thats showing and changing the crop might help here.

Spiderfan
by arsharif

Comment:
The lighting here is highlighting the wall in back of this cute little boy. you also have a shadow behind him thats distracting. Try having him stand about 3 feetaway from the wall, and if possible hold the flash away from the camera to allow the flash to be on him not bounce the wall. If thats not possible, I know of two other inexpensive options that you can try. He's so cute and deserves to be the center of the photo :)

Little Miss Serious
by redmondson01

Comment:
need a reflector to bounce light back to her eyes,