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Hi Rada & welcome to the site, you've put this for critique, but haven't said what you want advice on, so I'll try to say what I think about the image.
I note from your portfolio that you do not want negative comments, but I would like to suggest that you look at some of the excellent art nude work on here and take some tips and inspiration from it.
Hello Claire and welcome to Ephotozine. This is such a great first upload, that expression is just so funny and full of character. If I was to be picky and in a perfect world, the whole dog would have been visible and the lines behind the head wouldn't be there, but it's a really nice black & white conversion and the focus is on the face where you would want it to be.
Like the angle on this, a shame the main riders face isn't in sharp focus. It looks as though your focus was on the riders just behind. Don't know whether you'd set it to manually focus on that point? If so, you may find it better with cycling to use focus tracking and keep a focus point on your main riders face.
I really like this one, there is so much to look around the shot. Lovely rock textures & thrift in the foreground, the sea, island & posts in the distance and the footprints in the sand just lead you across the beach perfectly.
I take quite a few of these for work, so hope you don't mind a couple of pointers. Firstly, white balance, they are all a bit too warm with the tungsten lighting, if you've shot RAW, I'd adjust them to natural. Also in #1, the lights are a little bit too bright and I can see a person? in the doorway to the left. My only other suggestions would be to brighten them all up as they are rather too dark (people like bright) and also correct your perspective, make sure your vertical lines are straight and make sure everything is level. I quite often use HDR very lightly now to bring out all the detail & tone.
I've recently been working for a jeweller, shooting for his website and think you just need to brighten the background more to white, which in turn will lighten some of the darker stones and make them sparkle. Also, remove the marks from the top of the shot and make sure you have the DOF to get the facets of the stones in focus. Also placement of the stones, it looks like the largest is facing away from the camera and that would be better really focused on.
The use of selective colour looks a little odd on this one, with just the child in colour and the flowers. The ISO also may have been a little high as there is alot of grain and the exposure has left a few blown highlights. I'm not sure if the focus is spot on, but it's always tricky to tell with a web image.
Well taken and it is sharp with movement in the wheels. As a cycling photographer, I would just like to see a little more space in front than behind to give somewhere to move into or crop the top of the image to just below the white awnings and crop a little off the bottom to make a square compsotion and maybe just adjust the curves to lighten the shot & bring out the colours.
Agree with Anna on this one, I like the angle and the way the lamb is looking up into the frame, but the lighter area of sky does detract a little from the lamb. Maybe a subtle use of photoshop or similar to darken the sky a touch and lighten the lamb slightly (using the doege and burn tools) would adjust the focus of the shot to the lamb.
Well, as the owner of whippets, I had to comment on this one. I like the angle you've shot this at and the fact you have his absolute attention (you've got a great model there).
One of the best mountain bike shots I've seen for a long time. It puts alot of the shots I've seen in magazines lately to shame. You've got a great expression, lots of sharp detail, good exposure and movement in the wheels and a nice lead through the shot with the track.
You've captured the action well and also filled the frame, which gives more impact in a sports shot. The background is a little cluttered, but it is difficult in these places to find a spot with a more empty background, but making sure your apeture is nice & wide will help to take away distractions. It's also a shame that both runners eyes are closed. I don't know if you took a sequence of them coming towards you, but with my cycling shots, I always pick the shots to put up on my website that have the eyes open & also the best expression, I try for effort without them looking too bad. Although this is sharp, I would also use a bit of USM in photoshop to increase the sharpness a bit more.