Feeling Blue
by Gekker

Comment by tomzinho:
nice, but a bit dark

Leopard Bananas
by Gekker

Comment by wewillexplore:
Interesting lighting - coming from the bottom up.
Slightly uninteresting subject - maybe if more of the banana was in the pic? Or the lighting on top was better?
I don't know if a banana is a great subject to take a 'macro' of, because you can't include the whole banana, etc.

Leopard Bananas
by Gekker

Comment by DennisF:
Focus in this closeup is pretty good. I like the necks more than the spots. Also, a little pale for bananas.

Leopard Bananas
by Gekker

Comment by Silver Fox:
Great idea and really different for a photo Challenge. You show good detail in your photograph, nice lighting, good focus, perhaps a little too bright on the bottom right, but overall, a really good shot.

Leopard Bananas
by Gekker

Comment by Gracious:
Mmmmmm...that's when they are sugury sweet! Nice.

Leopard Bananas
by Gekker

Comment by justine:
Is that what they are called? Humm I like mine green. LOL I love the starch. This is a good lighting.

Leopard Bananas
by Gekker

Comment by johnny_justjohnny:
without the stems and title this would really be abstract, might not've know what these were. weird how the brown spots have black pinpricks at their centers.

Orange
by Gekker

Comment by jmsetzler:
Greetings from the Critique Club :)

Hi Gekker....

This is an excellent macro photo... the composition is good as well... it's nicely unbalanced... I wouldn't change anything about the composition here at all. The detail is well defined.

Your depth of field selection at F2.8 could be just a little shallow for this image. The orange quarter on the left is not nearly as sharp as the quarter on the right side of the image. I think that a little more depth of field... possibly F4.5 or F5.6 would solidify the sharpness in this image quite a bit.

More depth of field would also lengthen your exposure time, which leads me to the issue of the lighting in this photo. I believe the light is just slightly too bright in this photo. It's not way too bright, but just a little. Maybe an image exposure of F4.5 and a 1/16th shutter speed would soften up the light just a little also...

Keep up the good work :)

John Setzler

Orange
by Gekker

Comment by joanns:
mmmmm Very nice close-up. It's so vivid I can almost smell it.

Orange
by Gekker

Comment by kiwiness:
You've really brought out the freshness and juiciness of those oranges, yum!