Whoa, I love you but you STINK!
by Telehubbie

Comment:
Very funny, you should put those two images in one.

Trane
by prentice

Comment:
*Howdy for the Critique Club*

First of all, you have a wonderful shot.
Like how he is looking away. I also like complimentary lines. The pockets on his jacket and the collar of his shirt, jacket and tie. Also horizontal line on the jacket and the blocks in the building, in shapes of the mustache and the brim of the hat.

Things that might improve this shot would be removing the blue and maybe the brown edge. The blue really has no point of interest to me. His hands are out of the shot, maybe just cropped out. The brown edge is so far over, might as well not even be there or moved Him, to lets say a third of it.

I seen in your comments box that his hat blended in with the bricks, burn and dodge are ok, but you can just use a curves adjustment to change also. Simple S curve and when your done, in your mask paint with black over everything but the wall and man this is so much easier. Thus giving more contrast. And reducing the halo look around the hat.

Well that's about it, you keep up the great work!

Have a great day, Mark Thomas Kelsay.

Past it's glory
by BMacD

Comment:
* Howdy for the Critique Club *

For me this photo brought up memories for me. For when I was a kid and my dad use to take me place where old trucks and cars were. I can't believe how good of shape this baby is in. If that was in Kansas it would be full of bullet holes lol.

Ok when I first open this I thought wow nice. I think your camera angle is good. Really showing those great lines in the grill. Something I think could be changed, as you said you walk by it when walking your dogs, is asking the owner about it. Maybe seeing if you could remove the small trees growing threw the bumper area, but I do like the grass growing over the area. The trees for me is a eye sore I keep wondering back to them.

Do like your processing on this really give old feel to it not to warm and not to cool.I think you could have tweaked it bit more with some curves adjustments to darken the sky a bit and also the rusty areas on the truck. This would have given a bit more contrast.

Over all you have a wonderful photo and keep up the great work, if you have any question feel free to PM me.

Have a great day, Mark Thomas Kelsay

Untitled
by Tej

Comment:
* Howdy from the Critique Club *

First of all if you want a good critique, you really need to fill out your photgrapher's comment box. For me the main suject is hidden by other ojects in your photo and I can't really make out what it is.
It's either old paper or a book.

This is more abstact to me not really know what it is. I am not trying to sound harsh, but there not much here to keep the viewers attention.

The quality of light is ok, I think you were going for a low light to make it feel old, which I think it worked well. It does have a warm feel to it.

You need to keep your file size close to 150k as possible so you don't loose any image quality.

If you have any question feel free to PM me and I will try to answer.

Have a great day, Mark Thomas Kelsay

Swept Away by Fall
by Neil

Comment:
I have played around with this kind of stuff a few times, this one is very eye catching.

Portrait
by KevinRiggs

Comment:
Thought this was you with that red you like so well :-)

Spicing things up
by tyrkinn

Comment:
*Howdy from the Critique Club*

First of all, when I looked at it gave me a smile and as my eyes start to move around. The relationship between the picture and the couch are out and a little distracting.
Also if you would have moved your subjects over to your left about 6 inches this would have put his head in the red area and hers in the white. Because the green in the painting is around his head making it look strange. I know you did allot of set up for this shot, but you could always change the background to something else. Just my opinion.

His glasses seem smudged a bit I don't know if this was intentional or not. But I do know the voters see everything here.

Your lighting seems to be dead on, nothing to bright or dark.

You might also keep up your file size close to the 150K limit, so you don't loose any more detail than possible.

Over your photo has a nice funny story to it, I think you have fine image and keep up the good work. If you have any question feel free to ask.

Have a Great Day, Mark Thomas Kelsay

Look into my eyes
by Judi

Comment:
*Howdy from the Critique Club*

I really like the composition of your shot, a few thing about the shot, lots of negative space that draws my eyes out of the shot. You might have used a complementary color to keep drawn into the face and eyes. I think also there is either not enough of the other face showing, maybe to the eyes?
Also flattening out the cloth some and showing more of the shoulders would have created more repeating lines, since you are shooting into the mirror.

Light is good, except the light seems to be reflecting into the face and hands causing it to be a white powdery or pale look to it.
Shooting into reflective objects is always a challenge in itself.

Over all I really like your shot and I gave it a nine when scoring, I loved looking at it. You have done a wonderful job and hope to see more like this.

If you have any question about my critique, just ask me.

Have a Great Day, Mark Thomas Kelsay

Curves
by Patrol

Comment:
*Howdy from the Critique Club*

First of all I like the light and shadow in this picture and the way the lines along back and the buttocks area create a matching curve along your back ground.

A few things you might want to look at, since it was a chrome challenge.

I pulled up your picture and played around with it, by removing the color I got more of a chrome or silver feel. Also I cropped most of the shoulder area out, along the right side where the bright highlights are at and up from the bottom. Which gave it a abstract look, at first glance you didn't really know what you were looking at.

As far a sharpness, reflective images for me don't always look to sharp and blurring it was out of the question. So I over sharpened it and it gave the reflective side the look of orange peel (kind of smooth but textured) and it made the background rougher since there were imperfection already there.

These are only my thoughts.

I hope, I help you out and if you have any questions just give me a shout.

Have a great Day, Mark Thomas Kelsay

Spring at last
by jonconley

Comment:
Howdy from the Critique Club

Over all you have a really nice shot, very nice color and the a isolated subject from blurred back ground and sharpness is good.

Natural light is good, but a few things you might consider is time of day when you shoot, is either early or late part of the day. If those times of day is not good for you. You might try shielding your subject from the bright sun. It shows on the top of her head and in the hair area and parts of the back ground.

I looked at your histogram and there were no black pixels to work with so I did some simple level adjustments, to take out some one the flatness off the shot. This brought out the colors allot more and in turn took out some over powering brightness.

I think this photo is worth re-shoot and trying a few different things. This person looks like she is loved really good by someone and it is worth the effort to improve it. Maybe more light on the face to bring out those great eyes.

If you have any questions please feel free to PM me.

Have a Great Day, Mark Thomas Kelsay.