Critiques

PTAH (287) 2009-09-21 16:25

Nice shot! Reminds me of the best place in Kyoto to buy matcha, this square becoming a market monthly at 21st.
Having time I'd tweak the clouds to remove a little green. I would also use a darker all around frame to direct more attention to the subject.
Overall, good composition and angle, also the signature fits well.

PTAH (287) 2008-09-02 16:01

Listening to Sinatra, image fits perfectly.
Wonderful, how naively carelessly the ship looks in its almost glamour whiteness while skies are turning into monsters.
No point caring there's life to live, the message I see.
And the fact it's taken on my birthday makes the message personal, doesn't it.

PTAH (287) 2008-08-18 1:08

A very neat shot! I would have only croped it differently, having the hopper decentered to the right.

PTAH (287) 2008-08-15 2:11

Could be sharper but the mood is definately here!
I can clearly hear church bells and a devilish creature acoming!

PTAH (287) 2008-06-24 21:43

Warm colours, 'Mona Lisa' like natural background and sharp objects make the picture look pleasing to the eye.
I would have cropped closer to the castle though because there are many distracting objects to look at, like trees, hills, clouds. And the castle, its details and old interesting texture doesn't get the attention it's worth of.

PTAH (287) 2008-06-23 21:36

These are the subtle and controlled colours I'd like more in my shots.
What are the dark corners caused by? Lens, pp?

Interesting ripples in the windows, brightens up the scene. Makes me wonder why though. The quality and smoothness of glass should not be a concern these days.

PTAH (287) 2008-06-23 20:33

Good interaction of the frame and the stairs. Don't know if that's to 'blame', or maybe the crop, or the lines that eye follows, but the picture stands out almost as if it was a three dimentional image!

Content of the image is limited by the object count but that makes it even more interesting as the playfulness of the human is clearly shown not being strained by the pompous architecture (with the wonderer and wall drawing), what often happens when humans interact with other timeless monuments.

How long did you take with this picture?

PTAH (287) 2008-06-16 1:22

Hi Marjan,
Would be a great place to spend a holiday or at least a week there. Doing not much more just switching on the light.

Well used polarizer, colours and symmetry.

PTAH (287) 2008-06-16 0:37

Very calmimg picture of this bathroom. Light, bringing another world in, seems to be having little of luck.

I especially like the contrast between the tidy room, square clean frame and the tilt of the camera. It reminds this is not a postcard or an add for beatiful lamps, but a real home that interacts with real people changing their mood with its atmosphere (that we are invited to see) and being changed by the atmosphere set by the people.

PTAH (287) 2008-04-07 9:49

Great view of those symmetric buildings beautifully lit and the trees, as if covered with shiny cobwebs!

Though it could have been shot vertically, that way there would be more of that building in the background going up and less of distractions on the sides and bottom. It's of course hard to decide upon perspective, crop all correctly during shooting, should take several of them whenever possible!

And thanks for the comment on that church picture, by the way, I've made a horizontal shot of it as well ;), didn't work that well. And the colour was improved using several tools combined: levels, curves, saturation..