Sacred Worship
by jmark53

Comment by justine:
Neat shot...the blue and red...awesome. Like this one.

Sacred Worship
by jmark53

Comment by vtruan:
Great effect of back/front lighting. works well. Nice job.

Sacred Worship
by jmark53

Comment by Natator:
Sensational lighting. Posed or an actual event? I can't tell, which is great.

A Seaman's Chart
by jmark53

Comment by Faye Pekas:
Nice composition and interesting subject. The focus could be better.

A Seaman's Chart
by jmark53

Comment by pncowley:
Nice image... definitely hearkens back to another era! Composition and placement of the sextant works pretty well for me, but the lighting (yellow cast) is just a bit too much for the shot, in my opinion. Focus on the stopwatch seems a bit soft, as well. --7

A Seaman's Chart
by jmark53

Comment by drydoc:
Great shot. Stop watch is slightly out of focus. I am not trying to be smart, but aren't these very much still in use for navigation today despite GPS?

A Seaman's Chart
by jmark53

Comment by MrAkamai:
I think the intention was good but there are some things that are keeping me from rating it higher: 1. Color balance is off (I know all we could do was resize), 2. A bit out of focus, 3. I would have cropped the left side a bit (Again, I know we could only resize). If those were allowed/performed, I would have given you a higher score.

A Seaman's Chart
by jmark53

Comment by jab119:
I like the subject except for the more modern stopwatch.....maybe an older style pocket watch would have complemented this image better. 7

A Seaman's Chart
by jmark53

Comment by muckpond:
this would have been really cool if you used the map from edge-to-edge as a background and somehow got rid of the yellow cast that's going on.

A World Apart
by jmark53

Comment by HBunch:
*Critique Club*
Telephone lines...yeah yeah yeah. lol You don't need to hear it AGAIN.
looks like it might have been a bit of a windy day, cause the globe looks to be in focus, but the trees, are really soft focus, which leads me to believe they were swaying in the wind a bit.
The angle and framing/cropping are good, with the exception of the unavoidable powerlines. Since the challenge is over now, you can always just clone those out, and tada! No more powerlines. I think that the globe being centered works here, as we can tell how big it really is. At first, I thought you picked a silly part of the globe to photographer, in the middle of the ocean, with nothing really to look at. But realize that with the surroundings, it's probably difficult to get an interesting pic otherwise.
one suggestion could be to stand under it, and shoot up toward the sky, so the sky would be the background, and wouldn't have anything else distracting from it, but the it would be difficult to judge size.
We do live on earth, most of us anyway, so I think that this does fit the Home Sweet Home theme.
The background elements aren't totally pleasing to look at, but hard to avoid.
~Heather~