I'm not good at all at self critique.
What's the purpose of self critique? If you are trying to sell the image, then you need to be able to see it though the eyes of a potential buyer.
If i's just to please you... it's more complicated. You like it or you don't but maybe you can understand what you like, what you don't like... not that you'll then be able to go out to make a photo with more A and less B... but tuck the information away in your subconscious.
Personally, when I read about someone struggling to get their print (or post-processing for the screen) "just right"... I kind of turn off. For me, post-processing can make a photo better, but it doesn't often seem to make something ordinary into something I love. That comes from content. So often, I don't see a photo in terms of "more this, less that"... but "oh, if that hadn't been there, if that had". In other words, the idea wasn't strong enough, it needed more. So the solution is to go out and take/make more photos based on my enhanced repertoire of ideas.
Which is one reason I don't submit photos for criticism: I'm sure there might be something to be gained from someone like Slobodan who is exceptional at spotting things that are "not quite right"... but the most important part is for me to internalise what works or doesn't, so that I get closer to taking the photos that I want to take.
