girl interrupted
by super-dave

Comment by gg3rd:
Interesting B&W, but I wish the other sleeve down instead - as is her body seems distorted...

girl interrupted
by super-dave

Comment by ben4345:
I wonder if I left the oven on....

girl interrupted
by super-dave

Comment by raish:
Right then, joke's on me as I now have to plough through 564 images and bump them all (yes, all of them) up. There'll be a third run through for fine tuning. It's day two now and I'm running late, sorry.

5

Bringing Books To Life!!
by super-dave

Comment by crayon:
awesome! original and a creative idea.
great execution too.

WTF???
by super-dave

Comment by loseme:
*Critique Club*

"WTF???" is a prefect entry into the acronym challenge, something we all know and have said a bunch of times. You also did a great job of capturing the acronym appropriately.

I think you made an excellent choice of going black and white to really grab the viewers attention in at your eyes. The lighting and contrast both look very good. I am really surprised that you didn't score higher, this really is a great piece for the challenge. Honestly I am not sure why you didn't place higher. Maybe voters are a little burned out on the self portraits, I am not sure.

Overall great piece and good job on the self portrait!

"I love a sunburnt country"
by super-dave

Comment by whatdewuc:


Written by Dorothea MacKellar

Eric Woo its the love of his country...Australia

The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded Lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens,
Is running in your veins;
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies -
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of drought and flooding rains,
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me.

The tragic ring-barked forests
Stark white beneath the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
An orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the crimson soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart around us
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold;
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown Country
My homing thoughts will fly.

WTF???
by super-dave

Comment by JimyThing:
Nice expression.

WTF???
by super-dave

Comment by Balko:
I'd imagine a different expression LOL

"I love a sunburnt country"
by super-dave

Comment by ericwoo:
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: Superb. Your colors are vivid, hinting that your white balance was properly chosen and adjusted, and your focus is nice and crisp. Your depth of field use nicely isolates the droplets while still allowing us to feel what you have in your background.

Lighting: Your lighting is also very nice. You have achieved a very nice, evenly lit image with no blown highlights or detail loss to shadows.

Composition/Content: I agree with you that a smaller flag would have worked much better, or perhaps moving the glass farther from the flag when shooting.

My Opinion: I am sure that it is me missing something, but I don't understand the title. Also, I just don't get the feeling of love jumping out at me when the image loads. While the score is on the high side of average and the image is well-done from a technical standpoint, I think that this type of refraction image is a bit overdone. While refraction is a valuable tool in the photography tool chest, the ongoing struggle for us photographers is finding new and creative ways to photograph refraction. This one in particular is too much of an emulation of Setzler's "Liberty and Justice" from 2002. I added it to my favorites back in April of 2006.


Eric

lunar new year - cultural fusion
by super-dave

Comment by timfythetoo:
Greetings from the Critique Club -

My first gut reaction to this is great colors on the kids. You definitely caught an interesting family there.

Now I am not a street photographer either so my judgement here is strictly the opinion of someone who doesn't have a clue. One thing I may have played with is making the family pop a bit more. Your family is in pretty good focus but they dont really stand out from the crowd as much as they could. Maybe layering them and the foreground out and gently blurring the background could have made them stand out a bit more. I may have also bumped up the sat a tiny bit just to really work the colors hard. I know most people in this challenge wanted b&w or sepia images but it would have been a shame for you to go that route and lose the great colors you have. Tweaking them a bit more may have given more impact.

Otherwise I am not sure what else to tell you. You have a nice picture here - not stellar but not a stinker either - which is reflected in your voting pattern and number of comments. Its always hard to comment on an image that really doesnt have anything major wrong with it but at the same time doesnt have that wow power that voters are looking for. You do seem to be in a great area to attempt more images like these (and for that I am jealous). And way to go with your lens choice. Some (including me) chose a very long lens so that they weren't even close to the situation they were shooting. Your choice meant that you were fairly close by which for many would be way out of their comfort zone.

Not sure if any of this helps (or makes sense for that matter). Keep up the good work!

Tim