Gracechild, I have not been submitting/voting/commenting this past month and won't for a while due to time constraints. However, after reading your post here, I added a comment to your Scalding Water image.
I have not been reading all Critique Club threads and posts. Apologies if I misconstrue anything. My suggestion is to do the in-depth critique AFTER the challenge week is over and do it on a "By Request" basis then. If you submit a picture that does well, you will get a lot of feedback and there is much less need for an in-depth critique. However, if you submit a good picture but that lots of people (rightly or wrongly) feel doesn't meet the challenge, all comments will merely say "this doesn't meet the challenge". Those pictures get very little feedback in terms of technical, aesthetic aspects. Similarly, if your picture gets 50% of comments that say "this aspect" is great and 50% of comments that say that exact same aspect is just what is wrong with the picture, then a more in-depth review will be more sought as well.
The reason why i suggest an after the challenge critique is that the critiquer knows by that time the equipment with which the image was made. There is not much point to give advice of "do this and do that" if the submitter's camera doesn't have the appropriate features. For instance, knowing the camera with which Gracechild made the scalding water image made me focus on the strength of the image, i.e. the creativity, rather than on its technical shortcomings (Gracechild, apologies for my cropping suggestions; maybe your camera shoots only at 640x480 and you had no room to crop to begin with). |
