in the action
by steve100

Comment:
Hello from Critique Club ;)

Steve, this is a nice photo, I like the way birds are having some sort of chaos. I can certainly "hear" the birds from this photo. There are some things that I wish weren't there such as the bird all the way bottom left corner, and right side is a bit spacey for the whole picture.

Colors are nice, focus right on the spot, both birds in the background and foreground is giving 3D feeling to the whole image, very nice. You were bombed by voters who thinks this is not a Bokeh image, which they might be right. There is a lot of confusion about "What is Bokeh" anyway...

It's a nice catch, honestly though if I did vote I probably would give you around 3 maybe 4. Even it's a nice photo, 1-doesn't give me the bokeh feeling too much, and 2-it's just an ordinary shot of some birds :(

I see you are an animal shooter, and had only 2 entries since 2004. I don't care why, but you should enter more challenges as much as possible. Your scores should go up not go down yet still much better than my first two challenges :P

Good luck on your next :)

Leo

Jeff
by choltmeier

Comment:
Hello from Critique Club ;)

Chris, when I click that button says "Gimme an image to Critique" each time I hope to get photos like yours. It is very pleasing to look at your images, you are doing great job with humans, portraits... although your blue is a vase, it doesn't matter.

This photo, Technically very very good. I see absolutely no place that shines to burn my eyes, yet no place dark enough to take the attention away. It is very sharp and clean photo.

Composition is also very well done. The angle and the framing of your dad is right on the spot.

I really don't give a you know what for the subject of the challenge, but I certainly see "bokeh" here. Top right corner has all the bokeh one must see to vote nicely.

2s and 3s are not justifying this photo at all. No matter who says what, I am totally against the "Low Voters" mentality, they are just bunch of crackheads "think" they know something about photography... which they all should go a flip burgers, and give their cameras to someone who would understand photography :(

Good job, keep them coming.

Leo

Mr. Grumpy Hits the Sack
by dafletchr

Comment:
This is very GOOD :)

Ballet dreams
by Budya

Comment:
AWESOME :)

summer rain
by roz

Comment:
CONGRATS :)

Rosette Nebula, a giant stellar nursery
by Pascal

Comment:
Finally you've been rewarded. This took sometime, but DPC came to its senses realizing that stars actually things in the sky :P

It's an awesome shot, very very nice. and you are very lucky person to watch them live. even the view arrives after 45 thousand years or more.

Congrats

the end of a florida winters day
by tangsoo

Comment:
Hello from critique club :)

Technically little dark photo, focused nicely but having boats on the middle of the picture was not a good idea. After all, you are trying to show us the sunset. The sky colors on the background nice but almost lost in whole photo. Try to look at this photo with tighter crop, say put the boats on left bottom somewhere and show us more of that wonderful sky. Little more brightness, you could be around 5.6 to 6. You might need a bit more sharpening though if you cropped that much.

Second entry and doing well. Points are going right direction. Check the previous winner photos in DPC. Don't duplicate them but they are good samples of good work, you should learn something from them.

My advice, keep it clean, simple and sharp.

Good luck on your next

Leo

Power Station and the Gas Works
by hesitant

Comment:
Hello from the Critique Club ;)

Your composition on other photos are very very good. I envy you to have such good eye, and actually trying similar styles myself :)

Your "Power Station and the Gas Works" is a little weak photo for your standards it seems. I like only one thing on that photo, colors. don't like the smoke, and the crop too much. Technically very nicely exposed photo. There is too much dark area on the bottom for my taste. Image stays small because of the way it cropped.

I know you can do much better work than this one. 5.2 might be around what this photo deserves, I would give 4 or 5 if I did vote, but didn't.

Good luck on your next, and keep up the god work (Not like this one though)

Leo

Sunset trails....
by renjith_varma

Comment:
Hello from the Critique Club ;)

Ah... nice but not quite perfect. I sense what you see here, but things are not lined up correctly and I am not talking about the ducks ;)

Ok, why did you get low scores, it might be because the ducks are not passing in order? the dirt in the water? the view a bit far?

all above?

Ok, technically not bad. Nicely exposed sharp photo. Focus seems like where it should be. But the composition here little off, I think you could go down a little more, give yourself a little tight angle and shoot bit more zoomed in, or cropped to give dramatic lights a bit more pop.

Oh well, try more options next time, and you should take more photos of this scene... very nice place :)

Checked your page and "Waiting for the chaos to begin..." is a very nice shot. I love it.

My friend, you do have future. Keep on clicking ;)

Leo

The heavens declare the glory of God!
by Schmeldontino

Comment:
Hello from the Critique Club ;)

Some of DPC voters must be drunk when they vote. 1s? man, why don't you kick your dog instead of giving 1s to people when your partner refuse to sleep with you that night? Dang.

Anyway, let's get down to business.

Technically very nice. A little bit burnt out but not much. Nice colors on top, blue and orange-ish colors very nice. Contrast is nice. Composition is also good here. I am keep checking the score, 5.2? Wow, pretty low for this shot. I would give around 7 if I did vote, but didn't.

I looked at your photos on your page. Man, you have a good future. Keep on clicking. You do have the "photographer's eye". Nice compositions and ideas.

I just don't believe you don't have any 6+ yet, but very soon... it seems like you will get one very very soon :)

Good luck on your next one :)

Leo