Sight
by sigrun_th

Comment:
::: Greetings from Critique Club :::

Hi, as requested, here is an indepth critique of your submission.

First Impression - the most important one:
Nice hi-key shot. I like it.

Composition:
I'd like to see a bit more negative space in this image. Loosen the crop some and move the eye to a stronger part of the composition.

Subject:
It's an eye. It's right there. Can't miss it :-)

Technical (Color, focus, and light):
Color and focus look good.
Light is nice. I'd like to see it about a half a stop more to completely blow the highlights on the forehead.

To grow its vote?:
Clumps in the eyelashes stand out to me. I'm no makeup artist, so I don't know how to fix that. Also, I think the eye-liner could be darker.

Summary:
Cool shot, very punchy. Good work.

Hope to see more from you soon,
Leroy

Golden Light, Golden Girl
by talikf

Comment:
::: Greetings from Critique Club :::

Hi, as requested, here is an indepth critique of your submission.

First Impression - the most important one:
Nice hair :-) I really like this shot. Nice detail in the hair and the angle makes it look wild. Almost like the hair is a flame.

Composition:
Works well. I love that the face is located at the very bottom of the photo. The hair leads my eye to it.

Subject:
clear, stands out well with nice detail.

Technical (Color, focus, and light):
Color: Nice warm tone to it. I'm sure the 500 watt (probably halogen) light source helped with that.
Focus is sharp, looks nice. I do see some details in the hair that looks like you may have over-sharpened in post or perhaps it's jpeg compression artifacts.
Light: nicely done.

To grow its vote?:
Nudity? Really, I'm not sure how to grow the vote on this one.

Summary:
Awesome shot, nice finish. Congrats.

Hope to see more from you soon,
Leroy

"Did I hear you say that there must be a catch?"
by KHolt

Comment:
::: Greetings from Critique Club :::

Hi, as requested, here is an indepth critique of your submission.

First Impression - the most important one:
Nice action capture. Title works for the challenge.

Composition:
It's decent. The main subjects are in good positions to make them points of interest.

Subject:
Subject is clearly the man trying to make the catch. So you defined him well.

Technical (Color, focus, and light):
All excellent.

To grow its vote?:
Convince DPC voters that not all good photography has to be over-processed and dramaticly grungy :-)

Summary:
I really like your shot. Nice entry for this challenge.

Hope to see more from you soon,
Leroy

"Day Tripper"
by red_gecko

Comment:
::: Greetings from Critique Club :::

Hi, as requested, here is an indepth critique of your submission.

First Impression - the most important one:
"Not the image I wanted to do at first but I had to submit something to this challenge." In this case, the technique was cool, but subject was wrong. Maybe a stereo speaker would have worked better ;-)

Composition:
Move the cat's head to the top right corner of the shot and it'd like it better.

Subject:
Technique is getting in way of subject here. The photo is dominated by the zoom blur. A little less would have gone a long way.

Technical (Color, focus, and light):
Color: For what you were going for, more saturation and gradient mapped colors probably would have worked better.
Focus: A little shorter shutter speed would have given the cat's face a bit more focus.
Light: A tad over-exposed once again a little shorter shutter speed would have helped.

To grow its vote?:
Some voters kill cat/dog photos with DNMC votes. That's how it goes here at DPC, not that it SHOULD be that way. Also, the technique is over-powering in this photo. I like the technique of zoom blur, but tone it down a bit.

Hope to see more from you soon,
Leroy

When I Get Home
by dx_power

Comment:
::: Greetings from Critique Club :::

Hi, as requested, here is an indepth critique of your submission.

First Impression - the most important one:
Very nice shot. Unfortunate that the butterfly isn't in focus. But that would be almost impossible seeing that it is so close to the camera.

Composition:
It's decent. The chimney is crowding the top of the frame a bit and the satelite dish to the right kinda hurts the feeling of the photo.

Subject:
I'm having a hard time deciding if the subject is the building or the butterfly. In either case, I think I'd rather the butterfly be in focus than the building.

Technical (Color, focus, and light):
All good.

To grow its vote?:
I really think the focus is n the wrong subject. Had they been inverted this photo would have scored much higher IMO.

Summary:
Lovely shot overall. Good work and nice capture.

Hope to see more from you soon,
Leroy

Another Girl
by Shea927

Comment:
::: Greetings from Critique Club :::

Hi, as requested, here is an indepth critique of your submission.

First Impression - the most important one:
Comes across as being a processed snapshot to me. Title seems to shoehorn the photo into the challenge.

Composition:
It's ok for a portrait. But it lacks any real pop to make it artistically sound. Also, the unmanaged hair isn't framing the face well.

Subject:
Clear and stands out well from the background.

Technical (Color, focus, and light):
Color: The B&W treatment is a bit flat. A curves adjustment to add more midtone contrast would help quite a bit.
Focus: sharp, looks nice.
Light: A little flat, also there is a hot spot on the end of her nose and above her eye that are a bit distracting.

To grow its vote?:
Lucky kinda summed up what most voters probably thought when voting. Overall, it comes across as a snapshot.

Summary:
Nice photo of your friend, I'm sure she will like it. And, it's a keeper for that reason. It just didn't work well for this challenge.

Hope to see more from you soon,
Leroy

Did you say walkies?
by joynim

Comment:
::: Greetings from Critique Club :::

Hi, as requested, here is an indepth critique of your submission.

First Impression - the most important one:
Interesting enough, I saw the thread about this photo earlier and was going to comment before I got distracted. Well, here I go :-) Lovely lighting and cute pooch, but crop seems a bit tight.

Composition:
I'd like to see this shot less tight. I really think that minimalizing the dog against more black background would have strengthened this shot immensely.

Subject:
Clear and stands out well against the black b/g.

Technical (Color, focus, and light):
All good on the technical side. I think the lighting is excellent, excepts for one hot spot above the eye.

To grow its vote?:
Strengthen the composition some. Ofcourse there are also voters that HATE dog shots, I can't help you with them :-( I think it's cute.

Summary:
Lovely shot of a cute poochie.

Hope to see more from you soon,
Leroy

There's a chance that we may fall apart before too long
by Lena

Comment:
::: Greetings from Critique Club :::

Hi, as requested, here is an indepth critique of your submission.

First Impression - the most important one:
Not bad, especially for your first entry. I really have to kind of dig to make a link between the photo, the title and the challenge.

Composition:
ehh, more of a product shot type composition, nothing particularly bold about it. I think use of negative space would have helped you out a lot here. Hey, don't worry, I do these types of comps all the time, sometimes they wrok :-)

Subject:
the subject is thre, clearly defined, no missing it.

Technical (Color, focus, and light):
Color: I like the grey-scale application you've used. Works well. I'd like to see this photo sepia-toned, just to see how that might affect it.
Focus is sharp: well done.
Lighting: I'm not sure you needed that center light. It is probably the light that is creating a few hot spots around the photo.

To grow its vote?:
Bolder composition would help. A stronger link to the challenge that doesn't lean on the title usually goes a long way.

Summary:
Nice shot and score for your first entry here. Keep up the good work. Cheers.

Hope to see more from you soon,
Leroy

Prince of Darkness
by ramevi

Comment:
::: Greetings from Critique Club :::

Hi, as requested, here is an indepth critique of your submission.

First Impression - the most important one:
Fun concept, but lighting comes across as a bit on the green side.

Composition:
I appreciate the use of negative space, but I think it should be in front of the subject rather than behind the subject.

Subject:
Clear in your face composition, subject is well defined by the lightsource.

Technical (Color, focus, and light):
Color: As mentioned earlier it seems a bit on the green side.
Focus looks sharp.
Light: Very good, it illuminates just what you wanted illuminated.

To grow its vote?:
A little stronger composition would have helped some. Not sure a "batman" theme would score real high in most challenges though.

Summary:
I like it. It's fun and nicely done. Keep up the good work.

Hope to see more from you soon,
Leroy

Single Light Source
by amandalore

Comment:
Very good use of low-key lighting Amanda. Excellent work and congrats on a top 15!