Big Baby Blues
by spiderman

Comment by sn4psh07:
Hmm look at the legs on that. I really like this picture, but I have to admit that I don't recognise the insect.
You have achieved a very shallow depth of field, but I feel that your title is trying to draw attention to the eyes, which are slightly out of focus. As the legs are the main feature of the insect that are in focus, personally I feel that your title should have drawn attention to that as opposed to the eyes. Though I can understand why you tried to draw attention to the eyes -- they look wonderful.
In many of my recent insect shots I have found that I get slightly shallower depth of field than I actually wanted, and unfortunately this seems to have struck you on a particularly inconvenient image.
An interesting crop and nice composition. Like the border too.

Big Baby Blues
by spiderman

Comment by Hardfire:
a bit ouf of focus and too blurry; nice insect though

Big Baby Blues
by spiderman

Comment by christyrack:
This would be a ribbon winner if it would have been more in focus. When I saw the thumbnail of this pic, I had to laugh at your title and this little guy's big blue bulging eyes!!! What on earth is it?? :)

Going Down
by spiderman

Comment by tomzinho:
it took me a while to realize that this was an escalater. good idea, and i'm sure the blur is intentional but i wonder how it would have looked in focus . . .

Going Down
by spiderman

Comment by GeneralE:
Oooh, I almost used a variation of this shot; not a close-up though. Here the bright lines form an additional repetitive element to the escalator steps themselves.

Going Down
by spiderman

Comment by connie:
Good shot!

Going Down
by spiderman

Comment by ellamay:
Wishing it was sharper, good eye though.

Going Down
by spiderman

Comment by Silent Sister:
I'm not sure what this is, but it has nice contrasting colors and certainly meets challenge requirements.

Going Down
by spiderman

Comment by alyrivero:
going down? where? *looking down* no, for real...would have loved to know twat, i mean, what it was a photo of. 5

shortcut
by spiderman

Comment by stephan:
Greetings from the Critique Club, John.

Composition: The composition is very strong. I like the simplicity. For example clouds in the sky would have been very distracting in my opinion. The diagonal lines draw your attention to the bottom of the photo. I think it's good as it is now but I wonder how it would look like if the people would sit in the chair on the right lane near the bottom.


Lighting: Exposure is good. The selective desaturation is subtle but fits very well. This is the "icing on the cake".

Focus: The narrow aperture was a good choice. I think a shallow DOF where maybe some of the seats have a softer focus wouldn't look as good as it's now.

Challenge: I think this is the weak part of the photo. Don't get me wrong. It is technically a great photo and in my opinion it also fits to the challenge. But when you look at some of the other top-photos (e.g. the winner) then you see that there is a great contrast regarding the subjects. I see contrasts in your photo, too. E.g. the empty seats vs. the two people and also colour-wise, but it's a bit too subtle to be recognised immedeatly and also not very strong (as compared to for example the hands of the winning photo).

Creativity: Well, the photo certainly does not look like just a snapshot. The composition and the selective desaturation sure shows creativity.

Ok, I probably couldn't help you very much. But this is also because your photo would have been a 10 in my book. It's hard to write a CC critique for good photos :)