Free as a Bird
by STEINR

Comment by dahved:
This shot looks like it was done in sunlight, not artificial as called for in this challenge.

Barn at Hale Farm
by STEINR

Comment by glad2badad:
Neat looking place. This photo is OK, a little bit documentary. I'd bet there is another angle that could work with this subject to get a little more artistic?

Barn at Hale Farm
by STEINR

Comment by puzzled:
The building on the left is attractive, but the other distracts because of the bright highlights that are blown out. It looks like a really cool place, though!

Barn at Hale Farm
by STEINR

Comment by mk:
The one on the left especially looks old. The lighting here is rather harsh - a later time in the day might have helped you out some. It's a difficult range here and the area in the tree on the left seems well exposed but the light on the barn on the right is somewhat blown.

Winter Pond
by STEINR

Comment by loseme:
* Critique Club*

"Winter Pond" is nice fit in the Off Center category. I think this would have fit well into a nature category as well. This strikes me as a nice, quite, calm piece.

Technically the shot looks OK. The grass appears to be a little too green, almost as if the contrast was turned up too high. I really do like that you left surrounding objects in to show the depth of field. I feel as thought I am just sitting and looking out on the water, and very cold while I am doing so. I think the illusion of cold
is coming from the crisp color of the water, plus the snow (more then likely it wasn't an illusion for you). I would probably say if the subject had a little more interest it would have grabbed the voters . Keep up the good work.

Winter Pond
by STEINR

Comment by Xilebo:
Looks nice but there isn't really anything that catches the eye of being off center except the grass..

Winter Pond
by STEINR

Comment by whiteroom:
nice!

Still Life
by STEINR

Comment by mesmeraj:
i really like the underlying story portaied here - i do which you had used a bit more light on the books so the image would have been focused throughtout insead of just the candle being crisp. Bumping up.

Still Life
by STEINR

Comment by Skyarcher:
Nostalgic... the weathered books, inking jar, old time glasses and that candle holder... just makes me want to curl up with a Charles Dickens book or something. And the tilding candle just adds to it here. I think if it were perfectly straight, in this setting, it wouldn't look right.

Still Life
by STEINR

Comment by JordanZ:
interesting still life - i would have liked to see a secondary light on the book though to show more detail, its a little dark and hard to tell its a book