Verge of Night
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Comment by Musicman:
After dark?

Goal Oriented
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Comment by Harz_Joerg:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Initial thoughts/My opinion
I do see the artistical approach and the message in combination with the text, but the message could have been presented better. Like the glowing, nicely coloured sky surrounding the "moon"

Content/Composition
I'm not completely sure what I see: is it the moon on the left side and some street light on the right? I do see some thin, moon lit clouds (best part to me) and also something like a horizon. And I do see the lines connecting the bright spots on the right side. They are nice too.
The shaking of the camera makes the image of course interesting, but if everything is vague and fuzzy, it's not that easy to understand, even with the text below it.
Speaking of text, I have to say that I neither like the font or colour of it very much. The colour should somehow match with the rest of the image.

Camera work -technically
Not much to say about it: exposure seems fine for this type of image and it seems to be focused also well, according to the light-lines a right.

Digital Processing - Technical
Seems also OK to me

Fits the challenge
Yes, it does, only the message didn't get to me very well.

Final remark
What I do appreciate very much with your submission is that you tried to go beyond the usual concepts and compositions shown here on DPC.
Doing so is always a courageous step that I honour very much, because it is a very important ingredient to DPC.

Good luck for you further submissions

Snowman
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Comment by TechnoShroom:
While the photo is rather harsh (bright flash, shadows) I cannot think of a more tacky Christmas decoration. I just might have to make one of these for the office tree next year! lol

Snowman
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Comment by lockjawdavis:
Nice manicure. French nails are so sexy!

Snowman
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Comment by nards656:
No offense to the hand, it just seems to take away from the shot.

Snowman
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Comment by ttreit:
I think the fingers in the photo detract from it. Pretty tacky ornament though.

Snowman
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Comment by mariomel:
Would have been better without the fingers in the shot.

Snowman
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Comment by birgir:
Marshmellows? What is this hand doing there? the photo of this taacky decoration would be better with out these fingers.

Snowman
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Comment by Zoomdak:
The hand is distacting and it could be sharpened up a little. cute though 5

Porous Material
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Comment by Konador:
Critique Club:

You have a good eye. The blue reflecting in these very red drips looks quite nice, and could make for a really nice photo. The main problem here has already been pointed out in your other comments. The focus seems off. You used a shallow DoF for focus people's attention on the blue drops, which is good, but it still doesnt look sharp enough in that area. Is this a full size crop from the original? If so, then that would explain it. You could try resizing the photo down a little and adding a border so it doesn't look too small. Then you could use USM to make it sharper.

The composition is very centered. I think placing the blue drop on one of the Third lines would improve it a little.

The photo also looks a little bit noisy, which can be easily sorted out with NeatImage.

Overall, I think with a little more post-processing, this would make a very nice photo.