Breaking Dawn
by Silent-Shooter

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Holy Lord of the Rings, Batman! (Yeah I know half a world away, but still)...amazingly gorgeous shot, small wonder it got an HM. Amazing light, composition, dof, pov, incredible otherworldly landscape AND sunrise...how the h?@! am I supposed to pick that to pieces?! Love the flow from the right fg to the mid-ground and back to that lovely sunset...

And that's pretty much all I got, sorry! :-)

Feel free to PM me,

Susan

Old-San-Juan-Window-DPC
by genova24

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Love the sense of place you've managed to capture here. Those huge thick adobe walls, the street scene below. Bit of a shame about the cars and graffiti. The composition is very pleasing with a great pov, the tones are quite nice. I personally would recomend scaling back on the HDR though; it's far too easy to ruin a nice shot with too much pp.

Overall very pleasing and fun to look at. I might also suggest double-checking your title before entering! :-) Please keep on shooting and entering.

Feel free to PM me,

Susan

Becoming Dark
by mlianopr

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Pity that this image didn't do better, as you have lovely golden tones in the sky and great silhouettes to work with. Problem is, from my point of view, is the vast expanse of black at the bottom of the page. For an entire third, there is nothing to look at. Now on the one hand it does help draw the eye to the punch of colour, but then...that's it. This is a highly competitive site, and Free Studies in particular are difficult to do well in. There needs to be something more here.

I see that you're a new member, so you may want to try this simple but effective exercise to help you get a better sense of what I mean. Choose a challenge (or several) and go through all the images...in reverse order. So start at the very end, with the DQs and bottom images, and work your way up to the ribbon winners.

Hope this helps, please keep on shooting and entering!

Feel free to PM me,

Susan

The Sidewalk.
by romil

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Very brave of you to cross a busy NY street and not get run over by the mobs or traffic :-) A veritable tidal wave of activity and humanity all sweeping towards you, most ethnicities are shown here...as is that infamous NY attitude in more than a few! In terms of comp, well you were shooting blind, but you managed to put us very much in the moment. I love all the colours, they keep the eye busy looking at things. This is one street shot which does benefit from being kept in colour as opposed to b/w.

Overall a very good image, pity it didn't score higher, but then I've never been able to figure out the DPC voters. Keep on entering!

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Susan

thisaway
by posthumous

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Interesting motion blur. The humanoid figures in the back right add interest to the shot and as they're reversed out, a sense of mystery too. The hand/arrow at the bottom right is beckoning us out of frame, but to where and what might we see when we get there?

Only the shadow knows...muwahahahaaaa...;-)

Feel free to PM me,

Susan

double hop
by lobrin

Comment:
Wow, very good work Louie! Looks like you've found your niche :-) Huge congrats on yet another blue!!!

mon chapeau est mort
by tnun

Comment:
Huh? My hat is dead?

mum
by posthumous

Comment:
Wow the unthinkable has happened - Posty got a ribbon!! :-) Congrats!

Oblivious
by Magnumphotography

Comment:
YAAAAAYYYYYY!!!! Huge congrats babe, didn't I say this was a good choice for FS?! WOOHOO!!! Ok back to bed now...love you!!!!

Currencies
by lobrin

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Hmmmm...this is a fairly good shot, lots of nice textures and colours and tones, definitely a solid mid-5s...but no more, I'm afraid. Currency, especially of this nature - lots of 3/4 and frontal profiles - means that the viewer almost feels compelled to meet the eyes of them all,and that leads to some meandering around the photo. The basic idea is good, and could probably work a bit better if you made a fan (as much as possible) so all the faces lined up behind one another. That would give it some sequence and more importantly, focus the viewer on each face in turn.

Otherwise, no glaring problems, just the execution needs a little more work :-)

Feel free to PM me,

Susan