The Alley Out Back
by surlybiff

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club.

I received your image to critique from the Critique Club queue. I have already commented on this image, but that was more by way of response to a comment you posted in the forum than a general review of the image.

First Impression:Seems to be a little bit of a shoehorn as far as the challenge topic is concerned. Whilst I do get that it is shot from above, it doesn't really give me the feeling of that.

Composition: Tilted images are always a challenge. In this case it looks like a mistake rather than an artistic choice. Additionally, as has been stated earlier, there is really no subject in this image.

Overall, I think you have received quite a lot of feedback on this image already, so hopefully you have an idea already why it didn't score very high.

Coffee_Break
by ambaker

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

First Impression: Creative take on this username. I like the idea very much, although it possibly falls into the "water drop" category.

Composition: The composition works well, although possibly I would like to have seen more background to give a bit more context.

Technical: Here I think there is some room for improvement (when considering a higher score on DPC). I expect unless you had a whole cupboard full of cups that you were prepared to break into smithereens, that you didn't have too many chances to get this bang on the money! For me the lighting seems very flat and makes the image quite dull. I'm not sure how you could overcome that without blowing the highlights in the cup. (I'm not that technically competent that I can offer solutions). I do think this is the main reason why it only scored mid-5.

Overall I like the image, it's a good subject for this challenge and with some improvements in lighting/processing I think it could have scored higher. It did not realise it's potential.

Simply Simple
by JulietNN

Comment:
Looks great! Hope it is scoring well for you.

beachdog
by rinac

Comment:
Rina, maybe you are starting a trend here on DPC? :) I know you got your share of 1,2 and 3 votes, but you got as many 10s as 1s and that has to be good thing. Look at the commenters score too :) Great stuff and should in my not so humble opinion have scored much higher. Would have been a 10 from me if I could have voted.

skewsme
by tnun

Comment:
Thought this was excellent.

Shadow Walker
by Nuzzer

Comment:
My top pick of the challenge. Love it.

Five_Seat
by colorcarnival

Comment:
Thought this one was excellent. Sorry it didn't score higher.

skullfyre
by Ecce_Signum

Comment:
Can't believe this was only 32 with a score of 6.4.

Piaggio
by Zigomar

Comment:
OOh, look at that. I think the vintage processing is the only way to go for a Vespa. Thanks for sharing.

Quiet Contemplation
by Citadel

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

First Impression: Very nice to see such creative processing in the portrait challenge.

Composition: Bang on the money for me. I think it works extremely well.

Technical: Well, I am not seeing anything untoward here. I think it's well exposed, well lit and as said earlier, well composed. I suppose the only thing I can think of to explain the mid-range score is that people didn't like the processing. It could be a love/hate thing. I know it's always quite risky to use one of those Nik filters. (I used an amended version of the Holga for my own pigeon entry and it tanked!).

Artistic: Not your run of the mill portrait, so in that respect maybe a bit "out of the box" for this challenge?

I'm not certain why it didn't score higher, it's a strong image but maybe the processing is just not to everybody's taste. I happen to like it and would likely have given a 6/7 had I voted.