Elixir of Life
by Sunniee

Comment:
greetings from the critique club :)

first off i'de like to congratulate youon a great image. The first thing i thought when i saw this was it accomplishes the task of "gold". Then i saw the flowing ripples and the stopped motion and thought this shot has potential. One thing you should work on with water drops ( i realize they are hard without a macro lens, i use my 17-40 most of the time) is trying to get a more interesting drop. For instance and image like this

also, why so many editing steps, everything seems ok until you used a dragonizer... why? this image in my opinion did not need to be dragonized, when i think of gold i think bright... when you draganize something it adds grain and decreases the "glamour" of it. Also i think you used a little bit too much neatimage, the background looks unreal instead of shallow DOF.

overall an excelent image and well deserving of the score it got :)

if you have any comments or questions don't hesitate to PM or e-mail me.

-Dan

Uhh...that's not good (Inspired by Vipermike)
by SamDoe1

Comment:
love this one... i always have, thought it was so clever...maybe next time try to make it more interesting by adding like something going thorugh the hand and through the palm pilot... excellent image :)

Yes my camera was sober!
by liltritter

Comment:
hey from the critique club :)

Hi, in case you were wondering the critique club is a coupla people from dpc who voulunteer to give somewhat in depth critiques of people challenge photos. We try to help... :)

Ok, now to the photo.. generally on dpc, the rule of thumb is if the image looks blurry, seems blurry, has a little bit of blur, and doesnt use neatimage... it not going to score well. Although you may look at this photo and say oooo i like the blur and the affect clone affect, you have to step into someone else's shoes and think how they think... critique your own image.

Technically this image is ok. The crooked lightpole detracts from the image as a whole. The thing that bothers me most about this image is the lack of negative space. Negative space is the area in the photo where there isnt really anything of interest. This photo seems really busy. You also must consider when doing photos for dpc that looking at an image at full size and looking at it at 640 pixels is totally different. Also rememeber that when you resize, you lose deatail and sharpening. I tend to do my sharpening after i resize, i just open up the pic and do it then.

Hope this helpes a little bit...

if you have any comments or questions please feel free to PM me.. :)

-Dan

P.S. like the title ;)

Urban Storefronts
by Rikki

Comment:
Hey from the critique club... :)

Sup dude..

OK, im not gonna lecture on and on about how to score well on dpc, because apparently you already knwo how to do that ;)... (something most of us can't do). But ill try and focus on what i think could make this photo better, not from the dpc viewpoint, but from my personal view.

First off i think the editting on this is a little bit harsh. Either too muchincrease in contrast or a little crazy with the curves adjustment, I would tone it down a little bit.

The noise in the photo was also a little bit too strong for me, i would tone it down a little bit, im not sure if this was a desired afffect, but i do think that noise in this pic would look good, you just had a little too much.

Considering you were using a laptop with a bad screen a coomend you on your post processing. Although sometimes rush images are the worst images to enter...

Just keep in mind that even though the update button is addicting, its good to kick the habit... :)

hope i helped a little, if you have any comments or questions please feel free to PM me

-Dan

P.S. i really did like your elemental photo... :)

Joy
by mpeters

Comment:
with a litle bit of editing this could be an exelent pic...

_MG_8324-01.jpg
by pidge

Comment:
very nice, i would try to do maybe some fill flash on the bottom in PS. But you really got the skintones good in this one.. applause

for a second timer these are really good!!

Test Strip
by Seanachai

Comment:
ok, this is major coolness

the white fingers of spring
by posthumous

Comment:
woah, weird red sky...

an instant before...
by charliev

Comment:
i like this, the white on the chips makes it work

Inverted Pistils
by swankFoto

Comment:
nice, good contrast with the pink and blue