picture perfect
by Wheeler1992

Comment by civilsavage:
nice idea for subject but you could have done more to "clean up" the composition. it looks a little too haphazard for its own sake... unless haphazardness and "candid" are the clichés you intended to work with.

picture perfect
by Wheeler1992

Comment by MattW:
good cliche

picture perfect
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Comment by justine:
lol This is just a great capture of an American moment. lol

picture perfect
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Comment by Chuckie:
Good picture, very creative.

basketballs
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Comment by DougPaz:
Good idea and color, needs stronger focus and use more of the allotted file size of 150 kb.

basketballs
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Comment by PTLParsons:
I call this putting round pegs into a square hole. Great job.

basketballs
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Comment by PaulMdx:
Composition: Good
Technical: I think lack of light could have let this down, but you pulled it off nicely. Focus seems slightly off apart from the bottom-right ball.
Meets challenge: Pushing it a bit.
Overall impression: Nice shot, good tech, but challenge criteria lets it down. 6

basketballs
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Comment by karmat:
A really sharp focus would have made these wonderfully contrasting colors really *pop* I think.

basketballs
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Comment by KimInNB:
I know they're in a square, but they're not square. Hence, the subject of the photo is not a square. The balls look dirty/smudged/very used.

Duck Crossing
by Wheeler1992

Comment by jmsetzler:
Greetings from the Critique Club :)

Hi Wheeler :)

This photo has a strong 'cute' element to it. Your message comes across very well and the challenge is met :)

Photographically, the photo may be a bit weak. There are three specific elements here that I believe could use some improvement.

1 - The exposure is not as strong as it could be. It appears that you are shooting into the sun. This being the case, you have a little washout in the color on your sign and at the top of the building behind it. You did not post your camera settings so I can't make any suggestions on a different exposure route for you.

2 - Compositionally, your camera is tilted which causes the sign to be tilted in this photo. I'm not sure if that was intentional or not, but it doesn't really add anything to the photo.

3 - Your sign is dead centered in the frame. The surrounding buildingd don't really strengthen your photo, so maybe a tigter crop just including the 'duck' and the sign would improve the overall impact of this shot ....

Keep up the good efforts :)

John Setzler