SEX
by RockBruise

Comment:
While I don't uderstand the corelation between the title and the photo I still like the shot.. Perhaps soon I will learn to enjoy the siplicity of a big red dot. very simple and the colors work well together

For Sale: Portable studio gear, backdrops not included.
by KiwiChris

Comment:
hmm if I give you a ten do I get a discount?...Nice shot meets the challenge just not real exiting.

Silhouette
by Zoomdak

Comment:
Greetings From the Critique Club!!

Initial impact: ooh those are nice and different colors.

Does it meet the challege? Perfectly. No questions there. I feel that this was a good choice for the faceless challenge.

Focus: The Focus looks good However after looking closely at the shot, It looks as if you have croped to much or lost some detail while downsizing for the challenge. If you look closely at the shoulders and the top of the rocks it looks blocky.

Colors. While i'm sure the unatural looking colors might have hurt your score a little. I love them. They are not colors that cross my screen often. I personaly enjoy somthing different. It also looks to be slightly oversaturated in the brighter area of the sky causing more of a blocky look to your clouds. This to could also have happened while down sizing.

Contrast: I feel that you managed to nail the contrast dead on the sunset and the silhoutte mix perfectly.

Composition and layout: For the most part I feel that your composition works well. I tend to agree with mpalitang the pose the person is in does not seem to flow well with the rest of the shot. But To be honest I can't realy think of what pose would work better. Looking at the sunset seems to be the only one that makes since... ohh well my mind and eyes don't always agree.

Overall: This is a very nice shot. I would probably have scored it fairly high if I had voted in this challenge. I hope it didn't sound like I wash bashing you shot. But hey you placed 6th and that alone should tell you that this isn't a bad shot. I just felt with such a high score I had to realy look to find what might have caused this to miss it's ribbon. (and I realy had to look to find any flaws).

Keep up the wonderfull work and I hope to see more great shots like this one in challenges to come. Good luck

Tristalisk

Message edited by author 2005-02-16 07:29:04.

Flamingo (Aspect Ratio 1.25)
by hokie99cpe

Comment:
I saw this and just had to leave a comment.
Man you need to use photo shop. A little bump in saturation and a bit of burning on the halo around the head. And this would be worth selling. Great shot I just feel it needed a little more saturation.

shadowes copy.jpg
by Tiberius

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!!!

I saw the request in the forums and noticed no one was nice enough to leave you a critique. So I figured I give you a freebee.

Initial Impact: Ohh nice this is different.

Focus: Crystal clear focus evrything seems to be nice and crisp.

Color: I feel that using black and white works well with this paticular shot. I can't say without seeing the color version but I feel that the color version would have had too many colors. Making it too busey to work wit this paticular composition.

Style and technique: I enjoy the use of negative space. I myself very seldom manage to get it to work to my liking. In this case however I think you nailed it.

Overall:

This is not a bad shot I like the use of negative space. However I feelt dissapointed. With a title of shadows copy. I expected to see a shadow. While interesting and well shot. It does not seem to fullfill it's promise. I see the puppets and hands but it does not deliver the action... Well I hope this helps at least a little. I look farward to seeing some more of these cool shots in the future.

Tristalisk

Message edited by author 2005-02-02 13:21:56.

tire in the skywater
by anja

Comment:
holey smokes I never dreamed this shot would be sitting this low.. It was one of my top 10 scores. goes to show art is subjective...

Scout (and Atticus): after the confrontation
by nsbca7

Comment:
wow this was one of my 3 tens.... I'm supprised this scored so low.. On the other hand it brings me great pride to be sitting at exactly the same score as a shot a gave a ten..... I still love the shot...

Sarah's Senior Prom
by emorgan49

Comment:
For me the sky being blown out mixed with the high light on the forehead just realy hurt a wonderfull shot. The two together cause the model to have no definable forhead. I think a filter or softer lighting would have brought this up to an image I could easily have givin around an 8. As is with the hash highlites a cant go above saying this is a pretty average shot...

Sweet baby
by Nuno

Comment:
while technicaly a great image I found a few aspect I didn't care for in the shot. The largets being the selective desatration. While I am a huge fan of the style, I feel that choosing the pacifier as the object of intrest was not the best choice. Such a soft baby in a heartining seen with its mother. Then theres this huge pink pacifier leaping out at you. I think that the blanket or perhaps the baby would have been better choices for leaving color. Othe rhtan that the lighting is good the focus is great. The scene works well and dosn't feel like a snapshot. Other than the pacifier I would have to say this is a great shot....

Marilyn Dreams in High Key
by KDO

Comment:
while I can appresiate a good High key shot. I feel that this one is slightly out of focus and a bit too washed out. This was a wonderfull concept but I think that you lost too much in going hight key.