Devil's Drink
by dali_lama_2k

Comment by bassbone:
love the concept - wish the shot glass were better in focus

Devil's Drink
by dali_lama_2k

Comment by KarenNfld:
Flame is overexposed but I like the blue part of it and the tilt.

Wisdom and Innocence
by dali_lama_2k

Comment by EL-ROI:
Very cute.. .Good color, good exposure. Babies are hard to pose with and this photo shows that. The baby is showing his or her eye sbeautifully. Pop-pop is doing a great job with her, but he isn't engaged with the photographer.

1987
by dali_lama_2k

Comment by love:
I wish the 7 wasn't cut off - otherwise I likey.

1987
by dali_lama_2k

Comment by Tom:
nice colors!

Let Them Fall where they May
by dali_lama_2k

Comment by BrennanOB:
There are sort of two shots going on here. The top part of chips in space is pretty cool, but the lack of any fill or bounce light makes the shadows pretty inky and loses some of the nice shapes you have going on. I would have like to see all of the top boards in the frame (On these shots I shoot really loose and count on wasting a good bit of the frame, even if I burn half my pixels to get the framing I want, Its no big deal when I can only submit 800 pixels anyway).

The lower bit with the two falling boards is dominated my the backdrop and the hints of the fallen. Sadly this half is neither nor. If you had used a GOBO and screened the backdrop off so it was black, it would have been in keeping with the top. Had you had a steady low light in addition to the flash and had a longer exposure so you had the circuit boards in space with the flash, and some falling lines and them in their resting place, that would have worked.

As is, it looks like it might have been a mistake; and anything that is not blatantly clearly intended, gets hammered here. If you back light so it could be seen as a halo, people will rip it as an artifact of editing. To get a good score, I have found you have to be pretty straightforward here.

I noticed that I gave this a 6. It fulfilled the challenge, and it has some interesting stuff going on, and I do love shots that capture the element of time, so the ghosts on the floor worked for me, but seemed a bit weak. Ghostly almost.

Let Them Fall where they May
by dali_lama_2k

Comment by salmiakki:
Greetings from the Critique Club

Difficult to critique this from my perspective as I found this challenge topic to be very unappealing and didn't vote. However, just because I didn't like the topic, doesn't mean I can't find something to comment.

This must have been quite fiddly to set up and I'm sure you had to do it more than once! I'm not entirely sure if you were really trying to make it look like a space station, but if so then I guess you succeeded, since it's the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw this. Clearly your commenters also thought the same.

I can't quite put my finger on why this scored below 5. Maybe the composition is a little awkward. Surely this was a bit hit and miss if you were dropping the chips. There is a lot of 'lint', fluff or whatever you care to call it in the background. Can't tell if that's meant to be there to enhance the feeling of a moon surface, or if in fact it's not meant to be there. Either way, that may have an impact on your score. DPC voters like things clean and dust free. There is certainly 1 white speck of dust that is standing out. Now, of course, in basic editing you cannot clone the dust out since it is not sensor dust, but real physical dust, so I would have been inclined to therefore use a levels adjustment or something to darken the blacks. The dust would be more concealed this way and would have made the chips stand out a bit more.

Just some thoughts for next time.

Sarah

warmth of the early sun
by dali_lama_2k

Comment by DiscoVader:
I was going to give this a low score because the palette isn't warm enough for me to meet the challenge. But, you have convinced me with your title. Reflecting on the title, I like for entry for this challenge a lot more. Nice.

Let Them Fall where they May
by dali_lama_2k

Comment by hajeka:
Looks like a space ship!

Let Them Fall where they May
by dali_lama_2k

Comment by DiscoVader:
I love this mainly because everything seems weightless. In fact I feel like I'm looking at some kind of space station.