We Will Remember Them......................Lest We Forget
by kaiser_chief

Comment:
** Critique Club **

Initial Reaction
Reverence

Subject
There are many memorials all over the world. Sometimes when we visit one we are touched in our souls. For me it was Pearl Harbor, and for you it was here. Although I have never been to this place, I feel that you have captured the essence of it very well.

Composition
The perspective here is perfect. I really like the way that you lead us through the picture from the memorial stone back to the resting places. My only thought for improvement would have been to cut off the top of the archway on the right. The partial wreath pulls my eye a bit away from the main subjects of the scene.

Lighting and Color
I feel that your use of selective desaturation here is perfect. It provides a pop point of where you want us to start looking when we first see your picture. From there we are lead into the back part of the photo. I know that you had no control over the weather that day for lighting, but I actually feel that the cloudy day and subsequent lighting is very appropriate for this subject.

Thank you again for sharing and if you have any questions about this critique please send me a pm!

Chris

Slack-liner
by tehben

Comment:
** Critique Club **

Initial Reaction
The first thing that I thought when this photo came up was that the big toe looked weird in placement.

Subject
I really love it when I see something that makes me pull up another browser page and learn about something I have not seen before. I really like how you chose something that isn't mainstream. From your notes I get the feeling that this came out mostly how you had envisioned in your head. While it's not a bad photograph overall, I don't feel that it really tells us what this sport is all about. I think that if you had shown the whole body and given us a sense of depth from the ground it would have worked better.

Composition
The wide crop works well here, and the depth of field is perfect with the exception of the back portion of the line due to the angle that this was taken. These two things really do a good job at bringing the line in as the focal point of the photo.

Lighting and Color
For me the use of desaturation and sepia is a way to evoke emotion in art. When I looked up the sport I got the impression that this is a very personal sport. The people who do this are not just in it for bragging rights or adrenaline rushes. Their feats are personal landmarks they have made for themselves in their lives and souls. So your color works well here in my opinion. While I like the contrast in lighting on the foot and jeans, the dark shadows in the background pull my eye away from the subject a little.

In relation to the challenge
While I personally like out of the box thinking, Skip is right about it not being mainstream enough for DPC. I had mentioned before that I didn't feel that this gives us the overall picture of what the sport is about, and you would need that for the voters to believe that it is a sport.

If you have any questions about this critique or would like to comment on my first critique please send me a pm. :)

Thanks!!

Chris

Knock On Wood
by cynthiann

Comment:
This is too hilarious!

Into The City
by J-Me

Comment:
I like how the road really pulls you through the picture.

Spring
by Fromac

Comment:
Nice clean reflection here. I like the way the island in the middle gives the scene a lot of depth.

Le Mont Saint-Michel
by gyaban

Comment:
I am so jealous! Great shot

Heart Land
by Prime_Time

Comment:
I like how you were able to capture the texture in the grasses/wheat?. I would have liked this better with the tree more to the right to have some more negative space to the left. It would have made me feel like the field was more the subject of the shot. My attention keeps flicking between the tree and field and I like the field more. Sorry for the run on. lol

Sandscape, Wellfleet
by Bear_Music

Comment:
I really like this texture. I just wish we could see a little bit of sky.

Todays almost gone.
by Lad

Comment:
Nice sun shot, the clouds look great. I wish the water wasn't black though.

Florida Fields
by Eagle40Fox2

Comment:
I really like the layers and tones in this. There is some weird grain though above the tree on the right that is a little distracting though.