Water Collection
by capck

Comment by Prof_Fate:
Critique Club Here.

Welcome to DPC. From your scores you can see this is not the easiest place to do well! LOL.

ON to your image...Very good composition - using leading lines, and rule of thirds. Details make the difference, and here i think the grass is too bright, and therfore distracting. black pavement might have been better, or even gray cement. Maybe a more colorful umbrella wold have had more impact. Antoher thought to help the appeal of this would be to alter the shaodws of the unbrella parts in the water, or refelct something in the water, or float something in the water (rubber ducks, leaves, a kids boat). I may have to take a shot like this for a challenge...thanks for the idea!

Techncially speaking, it may be a bit bright. not necessarily overexposed, but the black umbrella and grass are both bright - a darker (levels or curves) image would be better IMO.

I like the idea/concept, but i suspect the voters did not, and that was part of the reason for the low score. I think you did good thinkkng outside the box.

Mono!
by capck

Comment by dsa157:
a little noisy. also, I don't think the square crop really adds anything in this image.

Mono!
by capck

Comment by pa_cuthbert:
I'm not sure what you're trying to focus on, the ears or earring. I believe it's the earring, but how the focus is on the shot it's more like the ear hole. I gave this a 4 because it fit the theme, it was odd by the ear and earring.

Mono!
by capck

Comment by Jammur:
Very cute title, glad you used a clean ear, too