Good doggies!
by xtian

Comment:
What a great shot! It's a little overexposed which is a shame, but I love the b&w treatment, the composition and the background.

Angelick
by blissmoi

Comment:
I have no idea what I'm looking at, and it doesn't work as an abstract.

Little Girl Saves Kitten from Lake
by teebee2e

Comment:
Way too overprocessed. Overexposed background takes attention away from subjects. Choice of subject far too sacharine for my taste.

Mikayla
by w0fcm

Comment:
Background editing has left a lot of ugly looking patches which can be seen depending on the monitor. Would look a lot better with an effective even background anyway, rather than one which is 100% white. The clothes work well here, it's a shame the subject looks so unhappy. Hands are a really important part of any portrait if they're in the shot, it's a shame they're half hidden here. Not sure about the composition, any special reason here not to use rule of thirds? Otherwise the negative space feels unbalanced.

My-toes-is, Mitosis
by odessit40

Comment:
Great idea, would have worked much better for me if the feet were more covered with sand leaving the toes looking a bit more abstract. If well excecuted, could be a really striking graphic design image.

Sedona
by oOWonderBreadOo

Comment:
Wow, beautiful shot! The sky really makes this great, the ultra wide angle worked really well here. Lovely colours. What a location!

butterfly
by margiemu

Comment:
The first thing I notice about this photo is how much I really don't like the border. If I notice the border more than the photo, I'd say it's not a great border. DOF works well here, with an interesting background. Butterfly is nice and sharp. Not convinced by the composition/crop though, what is the most important part of the shot that you want people to look at? How are you communicating that?

Flowers of spring
by DemonLlama

Comment:
A nice shot for someone starting out. To make this really stand out, the shot needs to be very sharp somewhere in the shot. The bottom of the shot looks like it should be cropped out, perhaps a tighter crop in general on the flower would work better while keeping the negative space on the right. The greens work well, effective dof. In general though, a flower shot has to be amazing to really stand out in a DPC challenge, there are a lot of flower shots on this site!

Untitled
by Gnarf

Comment:
Interesting shot... I'm not completely convinced by the composition, especially the section of wall down the left hand edge of the shot. The textures are great, and the man adds interest and mood. I think what I like least about it is the patch of wall which is much lighter to the right of the man. The eye is usually drawn to the lightest part of a photo, which makes it hard to know where to settle on this photo.

How Beautiful Thou Are
by rosiehall

Comment:
Nice macro lens, and you have good dof field here. Other than that, it's just a shot of a butterfly, not particularly imaginatively composed/cropped. The background doesn't work well... perhaps if you'd got into a better angle, you could have avoided the diagonal line which cuts through the wings. What is the point of focus here? It looks like you haven't really thought about it... just fitting the whole butterfly into the frame is not the way forwards.