Sunlight Surprise - "Spirals"
by glad2badad

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: There is a minimalism that I like in this image, the way you have had faith to trust in simple light and shade. The toning is great and the juxtaposition of the sharpness and blur, accentuated by the orthogonal relationship between the shadow and cage.

Critical stuff: I think the physical limits you have placed on your composition effectively place a ceiling on the amount of interest you can glean from the scene. I think that the image is a little noisy in place and taking down the red channel a little may have helped to minimise the appearance of this (as would have localised use of a specialised noise reduction tool).

Overall: This is an effective image which I suspect off the viewer exactly what you had intended (at least that's the impression I get); there's a lot of merit in that - it offers a created feel that I enjoy in the images I view.

Stranded Long Tail Boat
by orvaratli

Comment:
If ever this was DPC Free Study front page image, it is this one.

If I do have a critique to make it would be that I would have liked to have seen a bit more texture in the trees on the left side.

Flamingo
by Ja-9

Comment:
This is very lovely - the change from highlights to shadows top right to bottom left is excellent.

Multi Tasking
by PennyStreet

Comment:
I like the waviness of the motion blur in this one.

pursuit
by nixter

Comment:
Great sense of movement here.

Postal Bot
by cgino

Comment:
This is great - I love the coloration.

Pairs
by PennyStreet

Comment:
This is a really great image - A fave.

Mars, 3009
by odriew

Comment:
Really interesting colours - I like it.

running on empty
by nixter

Comment:
This is just flat out wonderful.

Blow
by Retroesque

Comment:
This works really well - I do wonder how it might look with a tad more contrast but it is very nice nonetheless.