Gelato delicioso
by paddles

Comment:
The theme and composition of this photo are both excellent but the color cast is having a negative impact on the 'flavor' of this photo. You should also try to use the maximum size available to post photos to challenges. It makes it easier to enjoy the detail :)

Iris Aura
by adine

Comment:
This is lovely :) Great photo...

In the Spotlight
by Russell Weiss

Comment:
This is a neat photo, but i'm afraid it doesn't meet the challenge.

Glass Heart: Lit from behind by small flashlight
by DigitalSoul

Comment:
I'll just put a 'ditto' on a majority of the comments you have received and will receive this week.

Masquerade
by Pedro

Comment:
This is a great photo... nice work :)

High Desert Meadow at Sunset (with flash fill)
by gotthoffnung

Comment:
This photo doesn't use the topic of the challenge with enough strength to do very well. The challenge topic needs to be VERY evident in the photograph.

Very Successful
by bhanubhanu

Comment:

Originally posted by 777STAN: Sadly, however, good photography is more about technique than content.

Greetings...

Welcome to DPChallenge :) I noticed that this is your first submission to the site. I chose to quote from the comment that 777STAN left on your photo because it shows a situation that is all too common here and quite disturbing at the same time. I find that most novice photographers believe this statement, and I used to believe it myself. When a beginning photographer, who takes the hobby seriously, is getting started and learning how to control the camera, technique is more important to them than content. As you browse the higher scoring photographs on this site, you will see that most of them are usually more about technique than content as well. Since this site is primarly composed of beginning photographers, it seems that 'eye candy' photographs that are strong with technical merits are the ones that do better than photos that seem to have a very high value in subject content.

During the 5 years I have been experimenting with photography, I have watched people who started about the same time evolve as photographers. They all started out pursuing technical excellence regardless of subject and content. As they became proficient with the technical aspects, they began to apply those skills in pursuing meaningful subjects and content :)

For me, content often overrides EVERYTHING else about a photograph. When I look at a photo, I prefer to absorb what the photographer is trying to show me rather than how he is showing it to me. So, my quote of the day will be:

"Good photography is more about content than technique."

Technique is important, but not as important as the content :)

Just some food for thought...

John Setzler

A Blurry Vision
by mrambach

Comment:
Greetings...

Last place in a challenge is a tough situation. If you would like to become a better photographer, I can offer you some advice. Otherwise, just stop reading here and ignore the rest of what I have to say :)

The comments you received during the challenge cover the main issue with this challenge submission. It's too small. You should always make your image at least 640 pixels on the long side. When you make it smaller than the maximum possible size here, it makes it much more difficult for the viewer to absorb the image that you have submitted. I can't really see the feeling or mood that you may be attempting to relay with this photo.

When I do look a little deeper into this photo, I can attempt to draw a few conclusions about it. I believe that the blur in this photo could represent the form of failure that you had in mind. It has nothing to do with camera technicals, as people have commented already. I see so much of this nonsense here on DPChallenge with technical issues that it makes me want to throw up. It seems that no matter what you submit, you should never use a photo that has any element that could be considered a technical flaw. Blur in a photo causes people to focus on it for the WRONG reasons rather than the reason you probalby intended.

I can look at this photo and believe that your subject has experienced a failure of some magnitued that blurs her vision. That failure can be represented by the blurry photo quite well. Anger, fear, disappointment, and sadness are all emotions that can be nicely represented in a blurry photo. I think you should be commended for attempting to be unique with the idea here.

I could also be totally in left field. You, as the photographer and submitter of this photo, should make the effort to put your own thoughts in the "photographer's comments" box when you submit the image. As a person who gives critique, I find it useful to know what your intentions are in a photo. I can also provide you a much stronger critique if I know those things. When you leave that field blank, it makes me think that you don't care about your own photo. If that's the case, why bother submitting it? I could be wasting my own time by providing you with critique if you don't care :)

John Setzler

Alone in a Crowd
by Pedro

Comment:
You're too white. You have no soul :P

Stealth
by TommyMoe21

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club...

Since you didn't post any of your own thoughts on this image, my critique will be short and sweet...

This is an excellent black and white but it didn't score well because the photo doesn't meet the challenge in a standard way. People generally think of portraits as shots of 'people'. Better luck next time :)

John Setzler