Parking Lot Player
by jorr

Comment by melismatica:
A bit overexposed in the foreground and I would suggest cropping out the guy in the corner. This doesn't really engage my interest but it does fit the challenge.

Parking Lot Player
by jorr

Comment by espy2:
I'm not much for receiving or giving comments, but since Candids are near and dear to my heart, I have decided to give comment on every entry in this challenge.

This is an ok candid, but the technicals are pretty bad. No real focus and grainy. It's a 3 from me I'm afraid.

Complementary Flower
by jorr

Comment by thomaspeople:
I really like the soft but colorful background. The flower could stand to be a little sharper on the top edge, but that's really hard for me to get so I can't, unfortunately, say how to do it better. Still this is a very pleasing image and meets the challenge very well without being only yellow

Jump, Nippin, Jump
by jorr

Comment by BakerBug:
There is a lot of noise in this shot. Maybe a little less magnification would help.

Complementary Flower
by jorr

Comment by JH:
This almost has a '35mm film' feel about it. Nicely done. Something about the saturation and the grain in the purples.

Good lighting and focus. I can't really think of any suggestions to make on the technicals. Composition works well here to draw the eye to the centre of the flower.

But I really like that background, the yellow and purple are beautiful together.

Leaving Wakes, Floridian's Playtime
by jorr

Comment by Bear_Music:
**** C I T I Q U E C L U B C O M M E N T ****

My first reaction to this image is "Nothing really stands out here." It leaves me with a sort of a "ho hum" feeling. It's not a BAD picture, but it has nothing in it that transcends the ordinary. It's no especially dynamic in composition, it's not especially colorful, it's not especially evocative, it's not especially emotional, or moody, or anything. It just "is", ya know?

Compositionally it's particularly awkward, partly because the boat's so centered but especially because the motor's truncated. Another strike against it is "no faces": there's no real sense of "play" here, they may's well be commuting up the swamp. The dog is potentially playful, but we can't "read" him.

I have looked at the images visible in thumbnails on your profile page, and I'm struck with how similar they all are. At first glance, it appears that you approach every composition straight-on, witht he subject centered and with relatively little excess environment surrounding it. It's as if you use the camera to record or memorialize things and creatures, as opposed to using it to give us any sense of your REACTION to these subjects. Does that make any sense?

Consider THIS picture; I realize this may not have been possible, but suppose you were down the shore to right quite a ways and shooting back AT the boat: Imagine the dog's face leering right at us, tongue flapping, silly grin. Imagine the driver of the boat grinning likewise. Imagine a more dynamic composition, maybe a vertical shot with the boat filling much of the bottom of the frame, then some trees and a bit of sky...

I'd like to see you break free of this conceptual framework you're working in, and start to let your hair down a little with some wild 'n crazy stuff. Don't be afraid to experiment. Don't be afraid to let emotion into your images :-)

Robt.

Complementary Flower
by jorr

Comment by Cooz:
Well composed and well lit...

The noise killed this one...would have scored much higher without the noise because that's the only weak link on this photo...

Complementary Flower
by jorr

Comment by olddj:
Okay, if I have to comment on this one, all I will say is,

I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT

Nearly perfect shot!! Cannot get much better for me!!

Wow, someone may think I am trying to sleep with the photographer, so will stop now!!

Jacque

Message edited by author 2006-04-10 23:24:24.

Complementary Flower
by jorr

Comment by obsidian:
I would have been proud of this shot myself. I love the composition and the flow of the image and think that the blue/yellow contrast works really well. The background is a bit noisy (maybe some NeatImage on that?) and, as others have said, I think that the low score is more a reflection of the numbers of flowers submitted rather than the image per se.

Complementary Flower
by jorr

Comment by Melethia:
This is a very pleasing image - nice color, nice composition as well. What post processing software are you using? With the 20D, you shouldn't be seeing that much grain, I'd not think, unless it was a very small portion of the total image.