Gangland
by nGallahan

Comment by nGallahan:
YaY!!! Thanks Frank! My first ever Critique Club visit! Great insights :D This was a great challenge I learned a lot from and your critique adds to the education. Thanks for stopping by!

Glory Days Dreamer
by nGallahan

Comment by oldbimmercoupe:
hardly glory when this thing dropped nuclear bombs on civilian populations. wish they all were "static". sorry but its time to stop glorifying war.

Gangland
by nGallahan

Comment by FrankRobinson:
Hi Nathan, Welcome to the Critique Zone!

Congratulations on the image - there are not many in this challenge who have managed to get such a rich b/w and really pump the contrasts like this - it is really gripping.

Technically: There is really nothing to say here, even with 20/20 hindsight I cannot find something that I would change.

Artistically: More of a grey area (no pun intended!). The balance is great, the positioning of your (unintentional?) model looks spot on to me, but the slightly tilted looking perspective just seems a little forced. Can't quite put my finger on it. The top of the image is also a little cramped - I like the stairs there to frame it, but perhaps pulling back a little so that more of them appears? Or shooting from the bottom so that they go right to the bottom left? This wall could be a rich seam of shots to mine!

Happy hunting,

Frank.

Runaway Mower
by nGallahan

Comment by Lydia:
I love it! It makes me laugh.

Well done on all 'counts!

Fit for a Dog
by nGallahan

Comment by vawendy:
Congrats on your first HM! Well done and well deserved!!

Fit for a Dog
by nGallahan

Comment by tome:
I've missed this challenge completely. Sorry ribbon winners but this one should have won the blue :).
Susie is a natural!

Fill 'er up
by nGallahan

Comment by tome:
You're kidding me! What an angle. You need to tell the story on these fantastic shots... well, as much as isn't classified :). Amazing!
Btw I knew I would find Yo_Spiff in the comment section :).

Runaway Mower
by nGallahan

Comment by tome:
Oh believe me you're ready :). This was one of my 10s, fantastic shot! No motion blur needed, the scene, the crop, the light, everything is just the way it should be.

Runaway Mower
by nGallahan

Comment by nGallahan:
Thanks for the kind words Kenkid! I still have a lot of learning from you and all the othe great photographers on DPC before I'm ready for a blue :)

Runaway Mower
by nGallahan

Comment by kenskid:
Dude!!!! Ok...back to look again. If this doesn't take a ribbon...and it should take Blue....It should be the highest non-landscape shot in the whole bunch.

Good Luck.