Mother Nature's Glow
by MAK

Comment:
This is beautiful! Congrats on HM!

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
by LN13

Comment:
Oddly, I just taped the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy :-) Very cool shot! Congrats!

Z
by Jules1x

Comment:
I gave this a 9. I think it's killer. Macro-as-landscape is one of my favorite things, and this canyon running to an infinite sky is my idea of an eerie, alien landscape.

Wife : Mother : Best Friend : Lover
by ShaneBlake

Comment:
This is gorgeous. Coming back to bump. It's an image that's radiating love; not just from the photographer for the model, but vice versa. Beautiful, understated, HUMAN!

New Beginnings
by Deve

Comment:
Greetings From Critique Club

This is a very handsome and *human* portrait, not artificial or idealized at all. And that's a major plus. But there's one thing in particular, in post processing, that you could do to make it dramatically better: you need to magnify the image so youi can work on the eyes and make them lighter and snappier, especially the model's right eye, which is lost in shadow. This doesn't have to be extreme, but eye contact is everything in this sort of portrait.

Beyond that, you could have improved it in the shooting by moving your POV just enough to the right to lose that window between the trees, which is sort of distracting. Or possibly just crop this image to a square and lose all the distraction.

He IS a beautiful man, and it shows. Thank GOD, indeed :-)

Robt.

Boxes
by MAK

Comment:
8 from me. Deserved better. Well seen!

Summer Evening at Blackfish Creek Marsh
by PenelopeK

Comment:
LOvely finish :-) Congrats, sweetie.

School Bus Drop Off
by jgirl57

Comment:
It's BACKWARDS!

Homework :(
by jcar

Comment:
LOL, since when is "Peanuts Classics" part of "homework"? Jcar's a lucky kid :-)

Chasing Lavender
by Edwardho94

Comment:
Greetings From Critique Club

There are two ways to approach this image critically: as a composition, and based on how you dealt with the HDR requirement of the challenge.

Speaking compositionally, The image is startlingly static considering how much convergence is used, because convergence is usually very dynamic. If you hold your thumb up over the feet, you'll notice the image becomes much more dynamic. Not the image you wanted to make, obviously, but nevertheless a more dynamic one. And in DPC, "dynamic" is worth points. The feet, apparently, anchor the image in a rather mundane way. Which may be your point, of course.

Looking at it as an HDRI image, it's a little awkward. There's a huge disconnect between the rendering of the sky and the rendering of the field, so much that they look like they belong to two different images. And, as a niggling point, the tallest sunflower on the left is showing total shadow, whilst none of the others do, so that's an inconsistency that works against the whole. In general, it's a bit harsh and crunchy of an image.

I did *like* the image, it made me smile, but in the end it finished smack in the middle of the field, which is where I'd have expected it to end up.