Ripponden light
by KHolt

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Greetings from the Critique Club

And what beautiful light you found. I was trying to find out what Ripponden meant until I saw it is a place name. Makes sense then.

This image has wonderful colors, and of course the rays are very special and add a great deal to the composition. The water looks serene and inviting. You've invoked a nice feeling of quietude in this image. I wish that log was just a bit more, well, photogenic. Maybe introducing a little color (this was Expert Editing) to the log would bring out something to make it a bit more attractive. As usual, I'll add the caveat that this is just one person's opinion.

It's a lovely image just as it is, and you received a fairly good score from our voters. Keep up the good work.

Storm Over the City
by option

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Terrific whites, grays and darks. You found a great sky and captured it well. The one-third, two-thirds composition works well and while it would have been splendid if you could have had a calm, motionless body of water, this rippled effect works too.

I'm of two minds about the rocks to the right. While I suspect you were going for an anchor for the bottom of the image, and this is one, I wish it was a bit stronger. Naturally, that's just one person's opinion (mine) and should be taken as such.

In any event, this image worked well for you and you received some nice scores from our voters. And I do like to see nicely done black & white work. This is, indeed, nicely done.

Say Cheeeeeese!
by photobarb

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Greetings from the Critique Club

Oh,what a beautiful puppy.

You chose a perfect simple setting for this beauty and, of course, the expression on the Weimareiner is priceless. I think the technicals work well for you here and the colors are wonderful.

My only suggestion would be to crop this image way down. Just south of his front paws at the bottom and just away from his back paws to the right. This draws the viewer's attention right to the beautiful dog. I very much like the amount of space you have to the left and at the top of the image.

Your monochromatic color scheme is perfect for this portrait, and the doggy smile is perfect.

Head for the mountains
by marvin

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

I'm always pleased to get an image from Iceland to critique. I visited your beautiful country for a few weeks a long time ago, and fell in love with it. You have so many kinds of natural beauty. I'll also add that I visited Þingvellir. One of the oldest continuous parlimentary gatherings in the world. Wow.

Okay, to work. Your colors are great, and you show off those snow covered mountains beautifully. They attract the eye immediately and it's tough to let go to visit the rest of your image. But, visit it we must. I find the Direction Pole a bit distracting. I didn't know what it was until I read your notes. It doesn't stand out from the landscape around it, except for that white top. That top is pretty close to the mountains and tends to compete with them.

You have some beautifully detailed information in the mountains and sky, but your foreground could use some darks and lights to bring out the beauty that also exists there. (and I'd lose the Pole.)

All of this is my opinion of course, and just one person's viewpoint. You live in a spectacular place, keep those spectacular images coming.

Look to the Skies
by menele

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Greetings from the Critique Club

My first reaction upon seeing this image come up in the queue:

"Awwww, nice!"

Truly you have a simple, starkly black composition of a complex subject, with a perfect background of complementary colors. What's not to like.

I don't see anything technical that needs to be pointed out and I really like the image.

Your score is respectable, but not great. Perhaps it's because voters had a steady diet of flamboyant images using the Expert Editing mode, while your image relies on simplicity. Always hard to tell what's going on in the mind of our voters.

You're fairly new to DPC and when I looked at y our portfolio, I see you've jumped in with both feet. Keep up the good work. I'll look forward to seeing more of your images.

Chuckers my Backyard Buddy
by NovaTiger

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Ha Ha, cute one. Love your neighbor. Love that tail! Great capture.

Bash
by NovaTiger

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Greetings from the Critique Club

Interesting! I haven't seen jousting this close up before, and you really zeroed in.

You know if it was just the head, arm and the weapon, this would be an extroadinary action image. It's unfortunate that the background is so pronounced because it's hard to find the main attraction. A little strategic blurring might have made a difference in the scoring ...

But then, with all the lines and nearly monochromatic colors going everywhere, this (IMO, of course) almost makes it as an abstract.

This one came close, but in a quick look at your portfolio, I see you've got a lot of winners and we all get one of the other kind once in a while.
:-))

Good luck in your next Challenge.

Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
by xakpeet

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Wow. Fantastic capture, and a little shoe polish will take care of that other problem. :-))

Composition is just superb; the animal is in the best possible place. Since this was expert editing, I think it might have been helpful to have boosted that sky a bit as it seems a bit palid compared with the saturated colors in the foreground. Speaking of foreground, it would also be interesting to see this very fine image with more lights and darks in the foreground. (IMO) For example, some of the rock detail gets lost in this edit.

But all in all, a splendid image, and one you can be proud of.

I see you are a newcomer to DPC. Welcome aboard, and I for one will look forward to seeing more of your images.

Incoming
by darnok

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Greetings from the Critique Club

Isn't it nice when you get a shot that, with minimal processing, can stand up to entries that took Expert Editing to the limits!

This is a beauty, and doesn't need much of a critique from me, except to reinforce the scoring. Had I voted on this challenge my vote would have been right up there as well.

Beautiful work - wish it was mine.

Brotherhood
by michael_p

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Greetings from the Critique Club

What a delightful shot! It's always fun to see what these wide-angle lenses can do, and you took the possibilities all the way to the top.

Nicely exposed, great composition, fine expression on the kids faces, what more can I say. Well, maybe "keep up the good work!"

This was a great example of what "expert editing" can do for a photograph, while still keeping the photographic integrity of the piece.

About all I can say in closing, is enjoy those kids. They look like a whole bunch of joy.