Parliament of Budapest
by riot

Comment:
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An interesting image that meets the challenge

What a lovely interesting building this is. I̢۪m not sure about the bench, this is a conscious choice you have made to make your image more unique and give it a somewhat quirky feel but it doesn̢۪t really work for me to be honest, I would have preferred the plain grassy expanse. The lighting is good in the way it is bringing out all the interesting detail in the front facade.

The old cotton mill in Rossendale
by docjonny

Comment:
Hello from the critique club

An interesting image that meets the challenge

This looks an interesting location with the chimney forming a key part and influencing your choice of composition. I like the mono conversion though personally I think there is scope to make it a little darker throughout to give it a bit more body. The side lighting on the facing building enhances the textures of the brickwork nicely and the trees are quite vibrant too. A commendable job, well done Jonathon.

Still Life with Fruit
by riot

Comment:
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An excellent image that meets the challenge fully

Yet another well deserved ribbon! First of all, a great concept, very well thought through and excellent execution, the lighting, perspective and DOF are all perfect and all enhanced with a great title. Thanks for the detailed write-up and the outtake I concur with your choice this is the better of the two. Everything about this image is wonderful and I would be really struggling to find fault with it. The lighting is spot on throughout both for the fruit and the model, the composition is perfect, but what really makes it is the subtle seductiveness of the lady, what is and is not revealed places it on another higher level. I really struggle to understand the logic behind the sub 4 scores but the rest of your voters appreciated a great piece of work and second only to gyaban is most commendable. Thanks for once more delighting us with your entry Eugene.

A Golden Day...
by Ja-9

Comment:
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An appealing image that meets the challenge

Another lovely landscape Janine, the lighting has separated the golden foliage nicely to make it stand out. It would have made it even better if we could have seen more of the foliage in the reflection by removing the immediate foreground and a lower viewpoint. I have to agree with glad̢۪s comments about sharpness there is a lack of it, its only that immediate foreground that does appear sharp which is probably why it is rather more forceful than is desirable. Having said all that the composition is good and generally a very capable image.

And so it begins
by snaffles

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An appealing image that meets the challenge

‘Ooh that’s nice’ were my words aloud as soon as it appeared! What a wonderful time of year this is, its colours and textures just have to be exploited to the full and your image does just that. I like the frame-filling aspect but its those lovely vibrant colours that hit you smack in the face, delicious! This is purely a personal thing, but I do get rather put off by the almost obligatory raindrops that seem to feature so much nowadays so for me that is the only thing that detracts but I do realise I am very much in the minority on that score. And talking of which well done for such a high one and your placing, a very creditable result Susan.

tunnel of leaves
by Hoghemaru

Comment:
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An interesting image that meets the challenge

I can see why this appealed to you, Fabio it certainly fills the challenge brief of foliage. The foliage is well lit and the scene naturally draws you into the tunnel of foliage. The grass is somewhat saturated and would benefit from easing back a bit to stop it dominating the image in favour of the foliage. A good attempt, thanks for sharing it with us

Abandoned
by clickodak

Comment:
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An interesting image that meets the challenge

I can see why this appealed to you, well observed Marcel. I like the concept and observation but the blue of that sky is just too dominant. I don̢۪t think you needed to include all of the building in fact by cropping out the top half of the image the message that the scene is past its best comes through much stronger, I̢۪m looking at this scrolled up to a level just below the gantry entering from the left and it works much better for me. Try it, see what you think?

By the Old Canal
by riot

Comment:
Hello from the critique club

An appealing image that meets the challenge

You̢۪re definitely tugging at my heart strings with scene Eugene, having spent 15 years living on a narrow boat I wondered why I didn̢۪t recognise this property but the Llangollen was one of the few canals I couldn̢۪t get the boat up. Anyway, enough of me, you̢۪re right there is only one composition possible because it works so well though I think I would have cropped the right between the chimneys in favour of more of the left, the natural part of the scene. As it is the house and the white rendering are very dominant and given the challenge brief you would have been able to display more foliage which may also have increased your score and voter participation. Thanks for your welcome reminder of many pleasant years past.

Autumn Leaf Path
by clickodak

Comment:
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An interesting image that contributes well to the challenge.

Well done Marcel this is a good first attempt at HDR. Yes, I do like the composition, I like the foreground space and colours and the dominant tree on the left that forms a very effective frame with its branches linking to the rest of the image and the off-centre path leading us into the rest of the image. I like that you have managed to bring out the vibrant colours in the tree canopy. If you could have had a distant person or animal at the end of the path that would have completed the image but it still remains a very good image well done Marcel

Winter's Calling
by Ja-9

Comment:
Hello from the critique club

An interesting image that contributes well to the challenge.

Firstly, congratulations Janine on your high score and ribbon, well deserved. This is a lovely tranquil landscape made all the more effective through those lovely reflections. The large DOF and focus point have rendered everything nicely focused just what is needed for this sort of image. The composition is good, in fact there̢۪s nothing really to fault with it, well done.