abstract in brown
by sunita

Comment:
nice shallow DOF & lighting

Japanese Gardens
by lwkimages

Comment:
nice location, the reflection in the water hints at a great sky but we cant see it in the shot (some HDR would help that), like the reflection, I'd prefer an inch or so cropped off the left to remove the bridge from shot

Easy Rider
by robs

Comment:
interesting lighting, a bit bright on his leg though

Miley
by rednis

Comment:
I'm a sucker for cats, this one is good, focus would be better on the eyes than the nose, especially when the nose is all white like that

that look
by mcieslak

Comment:
Captures her expression nicely, good composition, whites in the bg are a touch distracting from the model, maybe dodge the eyes a little to "bring them out"

Heading South for the Winter
by Quackers

Comment:
The DOF is good if not a little shallow. I'd prefer to see more blue in the background rather than more "bland" brown. I also wonder if this wouldn't have been a better composition if the ducks were heading from left to right instead of right to left? If you had them, some road signs or something to link it to the challenge more would have been good.

Hey, trolls! DUCK YOU!
by snaffles

Comment:
Thanks for the PM, it certainly gives insight into your shot:

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Hi Gerry

Thanks for your comment on my Duck You! entry.

In fact my score has gone up, nice and steadily.

You see, I don't shoot stuff that wins. What will win is a pleasingly composed shot of a ducky, saturtated to the eyeballs, probably clutched in a child's hand or balanced on their head or something similar.

Sorry, but just the thought of shooting something so boringly predictable puts me to sleep. But hey, if you want to win, that's the kind of stuff they want to see.

I will likely never win a challenge, and I really don't give a rat's arse if I don't. Or in this case, the arse of a ducky stuck headfirst into a goldfish bowl filled with whipped blue jello.

I joined this site to compete, learn, and have fun, and I am accomplishing all those goals by shooting what I want, not what the dpc vox populi want to see.

If you visit my homepage, you'll see that I belong to Team Suck. And as TS is home to many ribbon winners - levyj413, colorcarnival, Melethia, NikonJeb, basssman7, Doyle, SaraR, even silverfoxxx - we are by no means a bunch of talentless photogs.

So, maybe before thinking that mentioning someone's score likely isn't all that hight, maybe you should stop and think: who are you really shooting for, dpc? Or yourself?

Sleep on it.

Peace and love,

Susan

Peace and love,

Edit because I can't spell correctly the first time :(

Message edited by author 2008-08-20 02:38:27.

A Great Expectation
by rinac

Comment:
That's funny, well done. Where'd you get the woddies from?

Duck Soup
by Quackers

Comment:
Hmmm, the bowl seems a little crooked (rotating the shot a little would have solved that), the eye of the front duck is a little munted (could you have used a different duck as the star?), the red of the soup is good but maybe it would have been better if it were a little darker and the DOF wasn't so shallow so we could see a little more of it.

Three Little Ducks
by Mark-A

Comment:
Lovely colours, composition, idea, ...