After the Rain
by kirbic

Comment:
So this was yours, I wouldn't have guessed :) This is such a weird image in some ways, such a disconnect in a way between the top and bottom parts, and yet, so real. Having lived in Wyoming for a long time, I sort of know things look pretty strange sometimes (most of the time) in the desert areas. I really like this image, it's real to me.

Cleaning Fish
by muckpond

Comment:
This is sooooo cool! :)

Walking in Rome
by Rino63

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Challenge: Meets the challenge, no problems there.

Strong points: Great architecture, beautiful shots of it. The colours in the individual images, especially the two indoor shots, are spectacular, as is the detail in those two shots.

Possible weaknesses: Mainly the presentation. There seems to be a disconnect between the grandeur of the images, and your presentation of them as a group. The orange is a bit on the strong side, the extra white border around the bottom image gives a sense of disconnect, the different treatment for the individual images increases this sense of disconnect.

Technicals: The two indoor shots look to have no technical problems. The light in the shot to the right is more difficult to control.

Overall: I think that what you mainly have here is three beautiful shots that, even though they belong together, are not working together as a unit. They are beautiful by themselves, but put together it is too much. The presentation increases this sense of the images being individual shots rather than a unit or a story.

I hope this helps. If I can be of further help, please let me know.

~Ursula

Dressing on a Summer Evening
by alexzen

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Challenge: Definitely meets the challenge.

Strong points: The slight voyeuristic feeling of the image, without being a in your face "voyeur" shot, works in favour of the image. The warm colour scheme. Sexy and fun, as one of your commenters puts it.

Possible weaknesses: The cut-off areas of the model (in centre and right image). The uneven colour of the framing between the images. The same framing is too wide, it separates the images too much - it might be better to have those frames be the same width, or even less width, than the edge frame. The top frame being so much narrower is a bit jarring.

Technicals: Look great to me. The exposure seems right on, your idea of the textured curtain to provide interest was great.

Overall: A fun image, nicely done, and with a good score to show for it. Keep up the good work!

I hope this helps. If I can be of further help, please let me know.

~Ursula

Day Flows to Dusk, then Into the Night
by The_Dentist

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Challenge: Meets the challenge, but not in an obvious, "this is a triptych at first glance" kind of way. Congratulations on your new personal best!

Strong points: Uniqueness, great execution.

Possile weak points: Uniqueness :) The scene is not the most interesting there is.

Technicals: I see no problem with your technicals - both your exposures and your processing look excellent. Your blending of the three scenes is flawless.

Presentation: The horizon line in the centre of the image works against the dynamic aspect of showing three stages in a day in the city. There is too much empty sky here. IMHO, moving the camera down a bit and a tad to the right, so that the horizon line would be more at 1/3 from the top, and the bright road would point from the corner to about 1/3 from top, 1/3 from right hand side, might work better.

Overall: I am very impressed with both the concept and the execution. It is something you need to experiment with some more, it's a great idea with a lot of potential. I'm glad you got a high score and a good placement for this image.

I hope this helps. If I can be of further help, please let me know.

~Ursula

A Taste of Springtime
by Lorene

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Challenge: Definitely meets the challenge

Strong points: It tells a beautiful story, it is well presented, the centre panel is the main focus, the birdies have almost human-like expressions. Beautiful colours.

Possible weaknesses: The cut-off tails. It looks smallish somehow. The rock (branch?) is a bit overexposed.

Technicals: Your high shutter speed is a good choice for capturing speedy birds. I think you could have maybe gone just a touch faster, to get a slightly darker image (so that the rock/branch would have a bit more detail). The backgrounds are a bit messy, and you could maybe work on diffusing them slightly better.

Presentation: The centre panel is the main focus area, and you did great in telling your story this way. I wonder if you could have made that centre panel even more prominent somehow. The subdued framing is great for this, it separates the images without dominating the whole of the image.

Overall: A good entry and a strong finish. Keep up the good work!

~Ursula

Coming out of the Nest
by AzCKelly

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Strong points: Beautiful images of this woodpecker. Each of them individual would be a good shot by itself. Beautiful colours. Good detail and sharpness.

Possible weaknesses: The presentation. The images lined up without any borders/divisions make for a good series, but make the whole thing look a bit bland. The storyline is weak.

Technicals: Great colours, great detail and sharpness. Amazing you got this sharp at F5.6! Love the bokeh at the left in the top right image. The processing seems adequate for each individual image, although they might benefit from a tad more definition (shadow/highlights or curves or so).

Overall: A beautiful series of images, I almost think they would be better by themselves than arranged in a series.

I hope this helps. If I can be of further help, please let me know.

~Ursula

Waves
by MCCullen

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Strong points: A very good idea, telling the story of getting closer to a wave, how it hits the wall, grows, and falls over it. The wave itself is great, as is the sky. I also like the light reflected on the retaining wall, very beautiful.

Possible weaknesses: The presentation doesn't get the story across well enough. The light in the pictures changes. The third picture (bottom) looks softish.

Technicals: You say you took 3 images in burst mode. I'm assuming the "getting closer" is achieved with cropping then. It is hard to make good images in this situation, I think. The light in the sky, even though it is evening (or early morning?), is quite powerful compared to the light on the face of the wave. The images "look" like they have different light. It must be because of the crop.

I wonder if you could have maybe processed each individual image so that the light would look the same, possibly getting a bit more definition on the water itself (curves, shadow/highligh, I might even try tone-mapping here).

Presentation: The 3 images stacked without any divisions or borders between/around them make for a clean, but somewhat bland presentation. The vertical arrangement might be difficult to read - we are used to move eyes more in a horizontal fashion for stories. If would be impossible to put 3 wide images next to each other here, but you could try putting 3 slices next to each other, and see what happens.

Overall: A beautiful series of pictures, and a good score to show for it. I personally think that any of the 3, especially the top 2, might make a pretty good picture all by themselves.

I hope this helps. If I can be of further help, please contact me.

~Ursula

Snapshots
by Nuzzer

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Challenge: Meets the challenge description.

Strong points: The 3 overlapping windows combined with colour on B/W give this scene a lot more interest than it might have had all on its own. The sky is beautiful. The little sailboats draw you in.

Possible weak points: Very strict interpreters of "triptych" had a problem with this. The image looks a bit overprocessed. It is a rather centred composition, even though the horizon line is not at centre.

Technicals: The exposure/shutter speed combo you used looks to be right on. Your presentation is excellent. The processing looks (to my eyes) just a bit too strong (oversaturation in the coloured areas, too much contrast at the expense of detail).

Overall: A beautiful entry for Triptych, and you got an excellent score to go with it. Congratulations!

~Ursula

Day 5 - The Valley
by Artyste

Comment:
Same sky we have in the Kootenays today. The weather looks good for the next 2 weeks or so. Our hills are bigger :)