dangerous work
by phoenix46

Comment:
CC Critque

First Impression
The first thing I noticed about this photo was the excellent use of rule of thirds and a strong composition with the lines slanted and triangles in the top and bottom of the photo. The title is good and I can see the dangerous aspect of the photo with the harness and safety lines on the worker.
Things to help your score
I think this photo has very little impact on a viewer that is looking at 200 plus photos. Especially in a challenge like Negative image where the viewer is looking to see something they would normally not see in an image. I think most viewers looked at it and so no major flaws with meeting the challenge or PP but did not see anything thing to make them vote higher or impact them to leave more comments. I am not sure how this would have looked in a color negative but I think it may have done better with abit more color in the image. Although I can see that there must be some danger with saftey lines attached to the worker, to show the dangerous element more in the photo it would have been nice by showing how high up the person is off the ground or what they are working on.
Post Processing
The image looks well balanced through out the tonal range, and even though the top right was possibly blown out in the original it seems to work when converted to negative. It is difficult to say what could have been done better in your PP without any comments on how you got where you are. A suggestion for when asking for a critique is to put as much detail into your comments about your image as possible.
Conclusion
I think the score on this image was really affected by the subject matter and that it was hard for the viewer to get a good feel for what is going on, but i think your composition is excellent and well executed. I think in this case it is a photo that has no real problems or issues that needed to be fixed but did not have something to grab the voter and have them bump up the score to a higher vote.
I hope this is helpful to you and if you have any questions about my comments feel free to send me a PM.

Serene
by GIS_boy

Comment:
A Critique from the CC
My first impression of this photo when I saw it in voting was that it had a huge wow factor and everything needed for a ribbon winner and congratulations on your top ten finish. I had this photo rated higher than every photo that finished above you. To me this has everything put together nearly perfectly. The tremendous Dof field and calm water truly give a serene feel and I also like it because it does not feel like you were forcing the viewer to look at orange and and blue like so many other entries. But I feel this can be a bit of a double edged sword on this site because so many voters want to see exactly what the challenge details are that they may knock a point down for the brown boardwalk for example. As I read through your comments received during the challenge it always strikes me that this is a contest and not an art exhibit, meaning that people want to see certain things in every photo, the rule of thirds and such.(In your specific case some voters commented that they would have liked to have seen the horizon moved up or down abit.) Eventhough I believe those can be broken, many people maybe eager to give critiques or generally feel that without seeing these rules it is an issue to be marked down on, they will take off a point here and there. So as far as composition goes I think it is amazing and I feel like thats how I would look at the scene if I was there. My only other question is why did you not use the full 150 kb size limit for your photo? I looked on your page at your other entries and they all seemed closer to the max allowance. Lastly as far as your title goes I noticed a few didn't think it was interesting enough even though I thought it fit well. The only alternative I could come up with would be "Complements of Sandgate Bay" or wherever the name of this specific pier is. I hope this was helpful and if you have anymore questions or think some of my comments are completely wrong and want to let me know about feel free to PM me. Personally I thought this would ribbon and finding things about I didn't like was very difficult for me.

Desperate Phone Call
by talikf

Comment:
This would totally work as a movie poster. I think as has been said before the lighting is great and emotion in the model's face is excellent and doesn't even appear to be acting in the shot. If I had to add any critique to the image it would be that by the wrist it is abit too sharp and has a bit of a halo and on the cheek above the right eye the skin appears to have a alittle bright spots that attract the eye. In most cases it wouldn't matter but movie posters always seem to have the skins tones way over processed. If I was voting I would have voted it an 8 or 9 then sulked on to the next entry thinking about how much better this then my photo for the challenge.

2.75 Bubbles
by aimeethetoo

Comment:
------------****Greetings from the critique club****------------
I think this was a really creative idea for the negative image challenge and you executed your idea very well. As with many images in this challenge with very strong colors after inversion they could be hard to look at and your image is very easy on the eyes and the bubbles make me want to see closer into the them to see the details.

As far as composition goes I think it is really well done. I may have cropped slightly differently by having the bubbles abit higher up and the wand slightly to the right to make use of the rule of thirds. This woud have placed the wand in one of the places the eye is most drawn to and from there it would follow the bubbles. Also I can faintly see some blueish tint in the background underneath the bubbles which can be a small distraction. (Although I didn't notice them at first.)

I think the post processing would have helped your score abit, although I know it is difficult when working with a negative image. I noticed that you used invert to make you image negative. I would suggest using curves instead as it allows you to have more tonal control over the image, you simply change the curves low point to the high point and vice versa or from this / to this \. I hope that makes sense. Your bubbles seems abit overblown and it is hard to distinguish where the bubble ends and the background begins in some parts. Although I am not sure if this was intentional or not I could see voters taking a point away for that. The other thing that really strikes mee is that you are very blue and there is no change in the blue from your hair, shirt and skin tone and I am not sure how that is and perhaps voters who didn't comment may have thought this also and took a point down also. So maybe where shirt that was different than your skin or even some with lots of different colors to see how that would have looked.

Overall I think this image was really well done and as I critiqued it I liked it more. The border I think worked for your image too. The inside of the bubbles are great and it was a creative and well thought out idea. I hope this is helpful to you. If you have any more questions feel free to send me a PM.

The Circus in town
by DigiFotoBuddy

Comment:
I wish this shot was just abit wider so that we could have the feet of the trainer and the top of the ringling brothers sign was completely in frame

Gay Marriage: Adam and Steve
by Sunshine86

Comment:
I think showing the two men's faces would have had more of an impact because it shows they aren't trying to hide from the public, but a great a idea and just a suggestion

High Temperatures and Spring Rain Flood Valley Floor
by cools98

Comment:
This is a great shot, and the only suggestion I could have would be to maybe shoot at a higher shutter speed so that the water doesn't seem to be so smooth and serene and more chaotic to bring some more dramatic effect.

Swamp Thing grabs victory again!
by armin

Comment:
The green grass appears to be glowing from what looks to be abit of over saturation, but I like the stop action of the Swamp Thing

'Bringing purr therapy to the elderly'
by suemack

Comment:
I think having the elderly man's face would have helped this photo because I feel it would nice to be able to see his reaction to purr therapy

All good things come to an end
by steinar

Comment:
This is really well done, and I wonder what other poses you tried, I think having the male facing left and the women facing right would have been interesting so that they are facing away from each other. Either way its a great entry