The Circus in town
by DigiFotoBuddy

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

OH NO! How on earth did I get this one? LOL!

I love this image but you already knew that! This is fun, active, colorful and would make a great picture for the front page of the entertainment section or even the front page.

The colors are wonderful and the timing is also very good. The only thing I might have changed looking at it closer , since it is an advanced challenge would be to clone out the spots on the floor. Not sure if it's debris or light spots from a disco ball but they are touch distracting. Other than that, I love this shot!

Hope my comments help and OF COURSE Good Luck in future challenges!

Deannda

Two worlds - One bus stop
by timfythetoo

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

I saw this during the challange and thought to myself, "This would be a perfect photo for an article either on divirsity, homelessness or even how our society had changed from a more open to a more suspecious one." I liked the shot overall but something left me off. The colors are great, the expressions are wonderful and I had to come back to it a couple of times to figure out what was bothering me and I finally think I put my finger on it. The balance seems off. You have the man on the left right by the border but the man on the right is more no the thirds line. It's the bench on the right either being cut off or not being cut off enough that seems to bothering me the most. Just putting my hand up and bringing the right side up to the umbrella makes a big difference on the composition of the shot.

Other than that I really can't say much else about the shot, it was the only thing that was really bothering me overall about the shot. :)

Hope my comments help and good luck in future challenges, though after your ribbon you might not need it, LOL :)

Deannda

Ros 2
by tir261357

Comment:
Bummer, you will get DQ, no words on the pictures, its's a beautiful shot too. :(

Forest
by pellemannen

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Hi! This is a very interesting photo and I personally feel a great choice for this challenge. The trees draw me in and take me out the top to the "brown" sky, LOL!

A few things that caught my eye right off the bat was the composition of the overall shot. There is really nothing that is keeping me in the shot, it's all fighting for my attention except for that tree in the front right. If you had cropped either that out or more around it to have it be the one for the most attention, not sure if I'm getting my point across. But what it basically comes down to, while a great overall choice for the challenge there is nothing that is standing out in the shot and telling me, "HEY LOOK!" I played with my magic envelopes a little bit and with some creative cropping, take the grass out of the bottom maybe and a little off the right to bring the front tree more on the thirds line might help with the overall feel of the shot.

I hope my comments help and wish you the best of luck in future challenges!

Deannda

Complementary Glasses
by DigiFotoBuddy

Comment:
WTG SHAIL!!!! This is awesome and a well deserved score and placing! CONGRATS!!!!

Deannda

Window to Another World
by Neuferland

Comment:
Thank you everyone for your comments, I did debate about entering it or not but decided that since my daughters and I had put so much work into painting the window and everything............NOT! But seriously, it is a poster, tacked to the outside of my kitchen window. My oldest daughter stood on a ladder holding a 500 Watt light behind the waterfall while the youngest held the ladder steady. So that is how it was done. I do appreciate all the comments received! :)

Deannda

daydream
by CalliopeKel

Comment:
OH SURE! Leave the team and win a ribbon, LOL! Just teasing, congrats on this shot, it's wonderful!

Silencio
by kiwiness

Comment:
I KNEW IT WAS YOU! CONGRATS!!! :)

Deannda

Old town
by imagine74

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

What a lovely old building and area of town! Looks like there would be a lot of history in this picture!

I see a couple of things in this shot that bother me though, first the overall composition is wanting, you have lines leading me all over the place but nothing is really keeping my attention, giving me something to focus in on. The rail in the front is very distracting and the different levels of the roofs is also very distracting. They are all fighting each other for my attention. THen you the blue dome in the middle pops up at me and yells, "HEY! OVER HERE!" Mayve if you had focused mostly on the blue dome and the spire on top of it, zoomed in over there. Then you would have a focus to your shot, someplace for people to concentrate on. Use the roof in the very front to lead me to the dome, cutting out the rail completely. Just my thoughts.

Also the lighting seems at high noon, very bright and over powering. Maybe a levels/curves or brightness/contrast adjustment could soften it up just a bit. Bring out the colors more. If you also used the Hue/saturation to diffuse the other colors and bring out the dome, again, giving the picture some focus.

Hope my comments help and good luck in future challenges!

Deannda

Yummy
by angela_packard

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

What an adorable little boy and the expression is wonderful! I love natural expressions in kids so much more than the cheesy smiles all the "professional" studios go for.

So why didn't this score better? Well, my personal opinion for what it's worth is first the background, it jumped right out at me, smacked me in the forehead and gave me a headache! LOL! Just kidding but it is extremely bright on my monitor and my monitor is calibrated. It's really competing with the boy's blond hair, it was mentioned before, a darker background would have really made a difference on this but then it would have darkened the whole mood of the shot, light, springtime and happy. So what's the solution? Maybe a gel light behind him to color the backdrop either yellow or light blue to match the eggs? Also the plain shirt would have not hurt, that big blue truck and the word are again competing for my attention.

I love the eggs, they really help the shot but the random placing leaves me wanting, it's slightly off balance to me and again, are competing for my attention. Either fewer eggs or organize them a bit more to help add to the composition of the overall shot?

But otherwise it's a great shot, a sure keeper, especially with that tongue sticking out, LOL! Well done!

Hope my comments help and Good Luck in future challenges!

Deannda