Good Night Moon, By Margaret Wise Brown
by coraanne

Comment by GolferDDS:
One of my childrens' favorite stories, although I could never understand why!

Good Night Moon, By Margaret Wise Brown
by coraanne

Comment by Nyck:
bit blurry

Good Night Moon, By Margaret Wise Brown
by coraanne

Comment by kloutit:
Highlights blown out a bit. Good tip I heard is that instead of the sunny 16 rule, use the sunny 11 rule for shooting the moon. i.e. if using iso 200 film, set aperture to F11, and shoot at reciprocal shutter speed ( 1/200 sec). works well for me. Good luck in challenge.

Good Night Moon, By Margaret Wise Brown
by coraanne

Comment by Ecce_Signum:
Way too much noise in the background and very overexposed on the moon for me.

Good Night Moon, By Margaret Wise Brown
by coraanne

Comment by jodiecoston:
Very pretty. Whites seem to be just a touch blown out, but an attractive shot.

Good Night Moon, By Margaret Wise Brown
by coraanne

Comment by rachelellen:
Bummer about the noise and the slight overexposure. Photographing the moon requires a surprisingly fast shutter.

connected
by coraanne

Comment by _eug:
I think the rule of thirds could help here. move the block and tackle to the lower right.

Mid- life
by coraanne

Comment by psychephylax:
The softness just doesn't work here for me. The tires in the top right corner are distracting and you cut off the bumper of the Porsche.

Aces up...........
by coraanne

Comment by graphicfunk:
Greetings: from the critique club:

Okay, the presentation or the visual impact is good because the hand position and the card fan is nice. Here you selected to go with the selective desat. The effect works well because it imparts the higher importance to the cards. The major drawback is the cheating attempt. Too much card exposed so the furtive element is missing. As a matter of fact it looks blatant. A better place for the Ace would have been down around the wrist and just peeking from the shadow area. Another consideration is to palm the Ace with your right hand and then cup the hand and bring it near the card fan. However, my object here is not to show you how to cheat but to discuss the merit of your image as a whole.

While the presentation is good I would forego the tonal framing because it takes away from the impact. The lighting is acceptable but a dark cloth on the table would really lift this image above and beyond its visual appeal. To make it work as is required softer lighting and a slightly different angle, but that would be a another image. This is not to downplay your image as is. It does speak.

I think, insofar as this challenge is concerned, you did all you can. The big danger was selecting cards. They are all over the place. You seem to have an awareness of what is required to make a good image and my suiggestion is to follow your instincts and then to play around with lighting. Even clamp lights will help. You want your images to be different and it just takes a little more work and I am sure you can do it.

connected
by coraanne

Comment by Jammur:
Interesting lines and angles.