DeoxyribonucleicWHAT?! The Life of a Student
by Konador

Comment:
This is a wonderful portrait--well done--an image that will resound with students and ex students everywhere--beautiful colouring and lighting

Shaken, not stirred...
by Alecia

Comment:
Beautifully exposed and wonderful colours--great clarity as well

Sniper.....
by David Ey

Comment:
This is quite a frightening image--great impact--very clever and skillfully done

I Make Electricity
by ambaker

Comment:
Great effect around the glass--this is a fascinating image

Serving Hot Curry
by 'Pong

Comment:
Very good --lovely movement and great colours--far better blurred than clear--very clever

Wallpaper Hanger
by daysez

Comment:
I like this--the concentration on the face -the motion of the hand--a good portrait--well done

Neon Twig
by kandyj

Comment:
The Critique Club

The idea behind your shot is great but somehow I feel that you have fallen down in the post processing of your image. I am not sure whether it is in focus or out of focus—what colour it is—there seem to be so many colours in evidence on that twig that it could be multi reflections of something—in fact it is such a weird image that the imagination can run wild—and this is the fascination with your image—as you can see from peoples reaction to it. Your post processing has turned an image of an icy twig into an abstract shape.

Andrew

Leading the Choir
by crabappl3

Comment:
The Critique Club


You have caught the expression of a choir mistress perfectly—we have all seen the grimacing and shooting of eyebrows—and the exaggerated lip movements of the choir mistress as she coaxes the choir to do its best! She is the main subject of you photo but you kept a member of the choir in to tell us what was happening and to show the result of her efforts.

The colour is correct and the contrast of the dress with the dark background is good and emphasises your subject. Your use of the noise reduction seems to have taken some of the detail out of the textures in your subject—it has given her an oddly artificial look as if moulded in plastic. The look is quite interesting and I would love to see the photo before and after the noise reduction. A good portrait with a good amount of humour and humanity.

Andrew

Ice-flow
by catpixel

Comment:
The Critique Club

I think this is a great shot that reminds me of Breugel and those mass village green scenes. It is very busy with a lot for the eye to follow and take in. I see a lot of people have compared it to Where’s Waldo well I think it has the same fascination. A photograph on snow or ice is always tricky and I think you have reached a good compromise. Maybe if you had brightened it up a bit with levels it may have been more contrasty but if the snow had been blinding white it would have hurt your picture. I see no digital artefacts and the clarity is good.

I think people when they judged the photo wanted more evidence of movement and that is why I think Karen’s comment may have worked for you. A slightly longer exposure would have given you movement on the outside skaters while leaving the still of inner skaters and characters around the edge un-blurred. Your camera was almost fully open so you could have stopped down or even turned down the ISO.Your composition is straightforward and effective for this "full of drama" shot.

Andrew

The Flow Of Time
by JamieWillmott

Comment:
The Critique Club

The clarity of your focus is very good and your exposure is good, in that it emphasises the details of the metronome with a dark background and captures some of the grain in the wood. My monitor shows a slight warm cast to this image rather than pure black and white but this could just be my settings. You have captured well the swing of the arm with a faint streak from side to side and more pronounced at the ends of the swing. Movement captured-and contrasted with the stillness of the machine. There seem to be no digital artefacts and the picture is pretty grain free.

My only quibble is the composition of your shot. I think if you are trying to be symmetrical you must be exactly symmetrical and if you are to be off centre then you must be totally off centre. Your shot confuses the viewer who doesn’t know whether it is a symmetrical shot gone wrong or what! I also feel you should have experimented with other views. Often just changing the angle to something unexpected can do wonders and invigorate the picture. You chose a straight on view that one would see normally so there are no surprises—how about from above or a very side angle—I think you should have experimented with this.

Andrew