Chains of Time
by Monique64

Comment:
very effective crop. lots of energy from those falling/rising lines. 8

The Abolition of Self
by Cutter

Comment:
the model's hamming it up a little too much. I mean, even if it's camp, the participant should seem genuine about it. It's a subtle matter, but important. Very good otherwise. 7

Egg
by Myndarpiltur

Comment:
creepy! 8

I found out...I'm just a link in your chain
by sher

Comment:
Not much going on thematically but a gorgeous arrangement of tones. 8

In Memory Of...
by jessie

Comment:
Greetings from the critique club

Nicely done. You have captured the disappearance into fog very well. I like the alternating benches, and I like how you snagged a tiny recognizable phrase in the corner and made it your title. The photo seems to document how memory disappears.

I gave this a 6. The only reason I didn't score it higher is that this is such a common trope, perspective lines vanishing, and it so often seems to be from this angle and to have this mood.

If you're interested in scoring higher, then I would say not to be this dim and soft. I realize that this picture depends on being dim and soft, but a flaw of DPC voters is that they don't think about what the picture needs. And the problem with DPC is that instead of trying to fix the flaws, it encourages photographers to match those flaws. Don't do it.

Dappled Sunlight
by rosiehall

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

As you can see by your score, this is not a DPC-friendly photo. You have committed two of the greatest DPC sins: soft focus and no subject.

How could you? How dare you take a photo for sheer visual delight? How dare you indulge in the sensual pleasure of pulsing textures as they move through shapes of light? Do you think photography is about joy and a pure beauty unadorned by the latest societal conventions? How dare you fill the entire frame with a constant rhythm of curving lines? Don't you realize that this isn't sexy? Don't you know that it's your duty as a photographer to take a picture of Thing and make Thing look desirable, so that we want to own Thing and will go out and buy Thing? There's no Thing in this photo for me to buy or fornicate with!

It's people like you that give photography a bad name. The name of Art. Don't ever stop.

Timon
by levyj413

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

The subject is supported by a diagonal swath of rock that is big enough to frame it on the bottom but no bigger, which is good because it's just a rock after all.

The OOF background is very nice, probably the best part of the picture, nice curving shapes that move the eye around without taking it out of frame. The colors match the meerkat very well, as if he had evolved to be camoflaged in this very environment.

Your subject is well focused and has twisted around to look over his shoulder, allowing us an idea of what both his back and front look like.

If anything, the picture is too perfect. Everything is so well-placed, with no distractions, that it becomes rather static. So if someone were to give you a 4, for example, it would be because of that staticness and because he's sick of meerkats. But as you know most people saw fit to give you 6 for a skillful photo.

girl with hat
by tcmartin

Comment:
perfect. but I love it anyway. :)

View from the Gutter
by pointandshoot

Comment:
brilliant. you could do a whole book on this tree. hahahaha

my love has become an affliction
by elmomarie

Comment:
powerful abstract shapes and negative space. Brilliant. 10