Blue and White
by jboling

Comment:
Poor sharpness and too much compression leaves visible jpeg artefacts.

Abstract Blue
by Hesitation

Comment:
What spoils it, is the straight line in the upper left corner.
It looks like a bad crop from a partially rotated image.
In this image, a smaller aperture (higher F) would have been better.
Also too much reflections, especially the orange/yellow is out of place.

Inri
by juhaseila

Comment:
Great detail!
Composition is almost good (balance between left and right).
The curve in the timber; barrel distortion?

Seasonal Affect
by Kimbly

Comment:
Multi exposure of sky and ground?
Good idea.

Royal Blue
by Marklane

Comment:
A bit oversaturated.
Try to use the rule of thirds (check tutorials)

Water can scald in less than 3 seconds
by Gracechild7

Comment:
Try a 400x300 format for example.
I tried it in Irfanfiew with this pic, it looked a lot better in that format. (resample using lanczos).
It could also be saved at a much higher quality and the quality wasn't lost in compression artefacts.
It won't work on all pictures, but it is something worth to experiment with.

Water can scald in less than 3 seconds
by Gracechild7

Comment:
~~~~Critique Club Comment~~~~

*Composition (content)*
Interesting composition.
Good balance between the main subject and the background subject.
Good horizontal portayal.
The lights on the building in the background provide some light intensity balance with the light of the fountain at the right. It also gives some variancy in color; yellow-red vs blue white.
The arches of the background-building and the water itself provide depth.
I guess that the material in the bottom is a concrede edge from the fountain. This gives a frame to the bottom, it doesn't leave the composition open at that end, which might be a good thing if anything beyond that isn't interesting.
Standing back more to capture more of the fountain and to do more with the rule of thirds might have made this better tough.

*Background*
When you are able to control aperture, you migh have wanted to experiment with the settings to get only the fountain edge to edge in focus and blur the background. Focus on 1/3th from the bottom of the frame an try F5-F2.8

*Camera Work (Technical)*
You don't have much control, but fortunately the shutterspeed was slow enough to capture the motion of the water. That is a good thing.
The whitebalance is slightly on the blue side, a better camera would have done a better job or provided better manual settings.
Unfortunately the camera destroy's alle sharpness and detail by very agressive jpeg compression (I talked to you about that earlier in the forums) and that is what ruins this picture for the viewer. It could also do with some exposure compensation experimentation.

*Digital Processing (technical)*
It makes no sense to discuss this. Because of the agressive jpeg compression many post processing techniques will come out bad. It might help under the new rules to make your image smaller!!!!!! You are not limited to 640x480 I believe, but can also RESAMPLE (Lanczos / bibubic algoritm; try Irfanview if you don't have an editor that can do that; DONT RESIZE, ALWAYS RESAMPLE!!!). That process might take some of the compression artefacts away and allow you to save at a higher compression level, close to 150kb. The small file might even allow for some sharpening without worsening the picture! Check the new rules about the file size and check the forums about resampling and saving.

*My opinion*
This is a very interesting picture (seriously, I don't say this to make you feel better), but it is ruined by the camera. I hope that the new rules allow you to post something of better quality, because your approach to photography is promising.

Battle over Main Street Plaza, Will the LDS Church Maintain Control
by Yomi

Comment:
~~~~Critique Club Comment~~~~

*Composition (content)*
The composition needs some work.
The horizon isn't straight, remember to get a straight horizon when composing the shot or leave room for cropping with post processing. Straighten by arbitrary rotation, either guessing or using a measure tool (Photoshop). It should be a slight bit rotated to the left.
The building looks distorted, like it is falling backwards and like all the walls want to meet at a point in the sky. The fence screems wideangle barrel distortion. It is a result of using a wideangle setting. The solution is to stand back and zoom in, using telephoto from a distance takes away the distortion.
Take a look at this photo: //www.dpchallenge.com/image.asp?IMAGE_ID=3353 to see what I mean.
Contrast between light and dark area's is good.

*Background*
Nothing to say something about. Altough, like you can see on the picture from the link a late evening or early morning sky might be more interesting.

*Camera Work (Technical)*
See other comments.
Focus is good, sharpness a bit on the soft side, aperture choice good.

*Digital Processing (technical)*
I think that the soft I see is because of slight jpeg compression image degradation. Remember to save it as close to 150kb as you can get, it is really important for the fine detail, especially when you portray such a large building in a 640x480 image.
Because of the colors in Patella's image I loaded this picture in Photoshop and did some color corrections. Adding red and yellow, but taking out green gave a much more balanced color and got rid of that blue/green cast. It could very well be that the lights are blue, but I doubt it.

*My opinion*
Reasonable picture of a building if it weren't for the distortion and heavy green/blue cast.

Vogue Magazine: Less than 30 shopping days to Xmas!
by Gordon

Comment:
Great composition, nice colors, nice use of DOF.

Advocate for the Solidarity of Israel
by takethat

Comment:
Great capture of emotion, this trully is something to make the frontpage.