Painted Still
by DCrest01

Comment:
Fabulously painterly! COngratulations on your ribbon, Diane!

Citroen
by grahamgator

Comment:
You're the master of this Mary Ann! Congratulations on your ribbon!

a light repast
by mefnj

Comment:
The cut pairs are so perfect... they make the image for me!

Congratulations on your HM!

The Book
by Tiberius

Comment:
I love it!

Such a fun story!

Sunset in SF
by tigerluong

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

This is a lovely scene, Frank!

I love how you've composed this and included that loving couple to give it a "story".

The sun being about on the "Thirds" makes this extra pleasing.

I find myself wishing that third person weren't interrupting "my couple"... I've already bought into them as mine when he arrives... Perhaps if you'd waited until he's passed by?

There is a great amount of noise/breakdown in the image... and some really odd yellow coloring around the limbs upper right that I think lowered the scores from the voters. And I agree with giantmike that the saturation is a bit higher than I would expect the colors to be naturally.

Thanks for entering this... I hope you'll continue, Frank.

It's good to have you here at DPC!

IMG_6129
by ke2211975

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Very creepy! Well done on that, Kevin.

I think that the overall darkness of the image is what caused the voters to vote lower and even some to not vote on it at all.
I've learned that DPC voters sometimes just look at the thumbnails of the images and decide which are interesting to them to click on. Unfortunately, this thumbnail image is very dark and drab and uninviting.

Also, not every voter has their monitor calibrated, so some may see even less detail. Perhaps a bit of "curves" to increase the contrast between lights and darks would have helped.

I usually finish my edit and then look at it on the website on my cellphone to make sure both look good.

Your composition is really good, I love what you've chosen to include in the scene to tell a story with your image.

The night Aunt Judy was chased home by a spook
by snaffles

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

This is such a fun image, Susan!

I love the way you've composed the scene... I really feel like the horse and rider are coming right toward me.

I don't understand why the trees are tilted, but it does add "creepiness factor". Ha!

I think the score is lower than expected because the blending and lighting could use some work. It seems that the scene is moonlit... yet the horse's hair is lit by daylight.

A bit of cloning some of the background at light opacity onto the legs' edges would make him fit into the scene better.

I love the details you've added, like the red eyes, but wish the graininess of Judy matched with the clarity of the "spook".

Overall, I like it... just needs a bit of tweaking to score higher.

LT II TD
by LevT

Comment:
How very fun!

Racing in the Rain
by sugarbear

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

I'm sure this WAS fun to shoot! And... you've captured at least this one well. Lovely job at panning to keep the subject in focus and get that fabulously blurred background to show us the speed of the vehicle.

I really like how the rain added that gorgeous blue stripe on the pavement.

I do wish you'd taken advantage of the entire 1200 pixels and 700MB so we could see the image larger. I'm sure this affected your score negatively. Perhaps some sharpening would be in order to really make this pop!

I'd also suggest a crop off of some of the left of the image, to allow the car to have room to "move within the frame". As it is, it crowds the car... since the viewer gets the idea that it's running out of room. If there's more room forward than to the rear, the viewer can relax while viewing.

Overall, this scored about where I would have expected it to... without the benefit of the voters being able to see it clearly (with the reduced size).

I'm glad you're back at DPC. Keep entering, please. It's fun to see how far you've come since your first race car entry years ago. Well done!

Taughannock Rock
by Neil

Comment:
Very pretty, Neil. It looks like the Fall leaves are funneling down and becoming liquid... then down the falls.

Cool!