birds
by ssengupta

Comment:
Gooses. lots of em.
Good job not blowing out the snow... tough to do especially when your subjects are so dark. Could have used a contrast boost, though- everything looks grey.

On The Waterfront
by Artan

Comment:
The water is beautiful, but the fuzziness on the rest of the image is really distracting. Especially on the trees on the right- it kind of makes my eyes hurt.

Surviving Christmas
by mannjudit

Comment:
Nice picture... but for the title, it's too peaceful. No survival necessary- it's so clean, neat, and well packaged!

Gone with the wind.
by armin

Comment:
I don't care what anyone says, this photo is great.

A Clockwork Orange
by casualguy

Comment:
Mmm, nice one. Now if you could have gotten a motion blur on the second hand... THAT would have been impressive :)

I Will Learn and Practice Discipline
by ahaze

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

The first thing that strikes me about this picture is the lighting, which is very good. You have a good tonal range without losing your highlights. It could probably stand to be just a bit lighter, to get a bit more definition in the dark areas, mostly, but this is fairly minor.

Brianlh's comment below is definitely a good point- greater symmetry would lend a lot to the solidarity of this image, which would relate well to the title. Also, the focal point of this picture is your hands, which is very close to the top of the frame, Putting it at the 1/3 line would make the composition much stronger.

It looks like you put your hands where you did to show the logo on the shirt, but I'm not sure that it was worth the compositional trade-off. If you had your hands directly over the yin-yang, you might have wound up with the outside elements of the yin-yang forming a sort of corona around your hands, which could have worked out quite well. Seems like this could benefit from a reshoot, just for the sake of seeing how it might come out differently the second time around.

In any case, just keep taking pictures!

Look For The Bright Side Of Life
by docpjv

Comment:
Hello from the the Critique Club!

This is an image that definitely has a strong impact. There is a lot of initial appeal in the framing and the composition. The high contrast, the darkness, and the averted eyes of the subject promote a sense of wonder and encourage me to keep looking.

The problem that I see is that the focus is uneven. At F1.8 a narrow DOF is pretty much inevitable; for this image you would probably have been better off using F4 or an even smaller aperture, and making a longer exposure. With such a high-contrast image, having good focus becomes very important. The place it hurts the most is on the ear- you would probably be just fine with the fairly soft focus on the rest of the image if the ear were sharp. Due to its relative isolation it becomes a secondary focal point after the eye, and a blurry focal point is really difficult to pull off well.

One of the things I like best about this image is the lighting on the head (not to mention its shape). The backlighting that shows off the right side of his scalp (image left) is particularly pleasing. It makes a very graceful line and introduces a good sense of motion to the image.

This is definitely a good picture, and all the most important aspects you already have covered: with just a slight adjustment of the camera settings, it would have been stellar. Good work.

~BLUE LAGOON~
by Anastasia

Comment:
I think this image would work better if the woman weren't looking at the camera. Other than that, it's a good picture.

Splash!
by panoramix

Comment:
Oh boy. You don't live in SoCal, do you?

Practical Magic
by OFreasier

Comment:
I like the setup, but I think a little bit of adjustment would have been helpful. Having the words on the cards so close to the bottom of the frame is distracting... my eye keeps being drawn to them, away from the more central parts of the photograph. Unfortunately I also see no real focal point; there is nowhere for my eye to go. Perhaps a lower angle would have helped.