Reaching
by caseyface

Comment by raish:
There's an Ent behind you!
Heh.

Nice composition/wholeness.

ETA - I'd probably try to rotate the trunk of the standing tree on the right to more apparently vertical :)

Message edited by author 2010-01-18 03:57:36.

Eggs
by caseyface

Comment by raish:
I prefer this one - colour distracts. What it's distracting from is anyone's guess, but this abstract has some depth and a consistent form, so it looks complete and deliberate without having to 'be' anything...

Twin Colony Diner
by caseyface

Comment by raish:
The discomfort of seeing it but not being there is in this. Bit of a window on another world. Nice candid.

Reaching
by caseyface

Comment by dtallakson:
I like this one. It has a menacing, ominous feel to it as the shadows reach out to wards the two trees in the distance.

Eggs
by caseyface

Comment by sulamk:
I also prefer this one better the brightness detracts from the first one.

Reaching
by caseyface

Comment by sulamk:
Good use of lines in the landscape to draw the eye in!

Eggs
by caseyface

Comment by PennyStreet:
I like this one better. I think the interest of the photo is the shape and the blur.
Adding the contrast doesn't add much and, IMO, might even detract from your standout design here.

Twin Colony Diner
by caseyface

Comment by digifotojo:
I like the deep reddish tone in this and the polish. Very reminiscent of old diners.

Twin Colony Diner
by caseyface

Comment by colorcarnival:
The person that actually caught my eye first was the guy on the left. I think it was his hair that got me lol. Looks like an interesting place to eat :)

Quiet
by caseyface

Comment by jasonlprice:
Greetings from the Critique Club

I love this photo and glad that I was assigned it for a critique. My favorite aspect is the deep reds in the barn and berries. I�m assuming that you liked that as well considering your tweaking of the reds. I think you did a perfect job on the colors and the contrast is wonderful. The framing of the barn with the wire is a great compositional feature to me and the depth of field is perfect at f9.

A couple of thoughts on why this didn�t score a 6 is that it does seem to have a balance issue as lissylou mentioned it �feels� crooked. Maybe if there was a way to get square on the fence and straight on with the barn it would have been more level? Perhaps another problem is the �fit of challenge�. The processing doesn�t fit the idea of �quite� because of the reds and high contrast, and the foreground bush creates tension in the composition, again not �quite�. In my opinion voters here like �clean� compositions with no distractions in them. I think in a free study or in a �rural� challenge this would easily score 6+.

Overall this is a wonderful photo and I wouldn�t change a thing if it were mine. I gave you some possible reasons why it didn�t get a 6, but a 5.75 is a great score here at dpChallenge.