Colorful Refection
by karenk

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club.

I didn't vote your image in this challenge, but I like this image. In the end it feels like a project in a photography class. Your exercise this morning is selective desat ... go master this technique. Well, you have done a nice job with the technique, but you haven't used the technique to create meaning for me, to tell me a story, or to show me the world from a different point of view.

Now that you have the technique ... use it to communicate something, anything, you couldn't communicate otherwise.

Vulnerable
by BrownEyes

Comment:
Greetings from the Ciritque Club.

I voted this challenge and gave your photo a 5. It met the challenge. But it didn't engage my interest. The notion of selective desat is to focus my attention to where it would not have been focused naturally. The chicks are the natural focus, desat or not, so it doesn't really work in that regard.

Additionally, you haven't really offered me an emotional payload for looking. You have the tech skills to pull this off. Work on the subjects and what you are trying to say and your scores will improve.

In a land far away...
by Natasha

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique club.

I didn't vote your image, but if i had i would have given it a score in the middle of the pack ... about where it scored.

What I liked: Good composition, good technical execution.

What I disliked: set-up feel of the photo, and lack of emotional payload. I can't figure out what you're trying to say.

Clearly it meets the challenge, but it doesn't tell me a story, make me care about the subject, wow me into looking longer.

You have some fantastic images in your portfolio. Don't let this get you down. learn and move on.

The Picture of Dorian Gray
by bdenny

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club.

I voted on this challenge and gave your photo a 3. Sorry if that seems harsh.

It clearly meets the challenge. Technically, it is well executed.

But I don't "understand" the photo or what you're trying to say. My feeling is that at DPC, you need to hit your audience over the head with whatever you are trying to say. The average voter devotes about 4 seconds to each photo. No time for subtlety.

If I study the photo, say for maybe 2-3 minutes, I see lots of layers of meaning here. I won't bore you with them. I like the emotional depth of this. But I fear your voting audience won't take the time to appreciate it.

If you shoot here, you shoot for a popular audience that is often shallow, sleep deprived, and looking for wow. Not much wow to lure them in in this particular photo.

You may not care. You may be trying to express something personal and deep within you. In that case, screw the audience and shoot from your soul. You have talent. It's up to you to decide how to deploy it.

Together
by marvin

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club.

First, nice photo. Bright. Well defined. Nice contrast in the yellow areas. and a reasonable composition.

The issue I have is that the image doesn't hold my interest. You've shown me nothing new. It is a workmanlike photo but with a weak subject.

If you can apply your technical ability to a more interesting or relevant subject, it will score very well indeed.

Is It In You?
by langdon

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club.

Frankly, I am struggling to critique this.

On the one hand, I am in awe of the site and the community you have created here.

On the other, I don't like the photo so much. Technically it is virtually perfect. I like the emotion in the eyes. It feels like "you against the world." But I can't imagine a reason to take it other than as a technical exercise. I have started a number of businesses, and have often felt the 'green goo" of criticsm and doubt. Maybe this is what you're getting at. I can resonate with that.

On rereading this, it is probably useless to you as a critique. Sorry. My admiration of you may well be getting in the way.

Who knows??????
by Di

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club.

Looking at your photo, I see an interesting shape. Foreground/background dynamics are interesting. I'm a blue fan, so the colors resonate with me. I can see this as a background image in an advertisement.

But it doesn't hold my interest, and is less interesting than other subjects in the challenge. It is one thing to master your camera and the post processing and another to take photos that engage your audience. You have very good performance on the former, but could work on the latter.

This idea's a keeper!
by djtiek

Comment:
Hold my beer ... now watch this! Funny in a UTube sort of way, or a Darwin Awards sort of way, but not a photo I resonate with.

Anatomy Lesson
by Krystle

Comment:
I originally gave this a 2 ... but am bumping it a number of points for the idea and the humor. Well executed. Well composed. Takes me back to high school.

(Anti) Gravity
by tomcat

Comment:
Feels like a really great snap to send grandma. Relevance to theme is questionable. Doesn't hold my interest as much as it would yours or grandma's.