home
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Comment by vawendy:
You've probably already received comments -- but looks like you could use a sensor cleaning. :)

What a wonderful place!

home
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Comment by bmartuch:
Beautiful landscape. Love the wide perspective.

mission lights
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Comment by Citadel:
Looks like I haven't written a critique for the Critique Club in...5 years? Ouch. I am overdue so you're the lucky recipient!

You chose a great scene to photograph. I really like the colors and the small motion makes this a unique take on the image. I'm wondering if you had a shot where you under exposed a bit. That would get rid of some the details (like around the door) that aren't really contributing to the shot. You could even try just darkening the shadows in post to see if that has that sort of effect and see if you like it In Lightroom, for instance, you could just bring down the darks slider.

Looking at your score it's on the low side but that's simply because of the technical side. It's blurry but you knew that though so I am guessing that you decided to take a risk and try to reach people with the image. I'm glad you did because these kind of images are fun to make.

allegory in architecture
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Comment by sidpixel:
Hello from the Critique club

An interesting image that does not meet the challenge

Your twilight image of these interesting buildings are very appealing in themselves but I'm sorry I don't feel that they are at all allegorical. They represent a specific culture directly even though I see they are not located in the region I would have expected them to be. I think it is probably for this reason that you know this and it conveys a feeling of allegory to you personally but this does not come across to your viewer. For this to work effectively here anyone viewing it should be able to make that connection. On a technical level there feels a softness through camera shake but also some over-sharpening in the dome area. Your composition could be improved by moving everything further to the right so that the left is not so abruptly cut off and a better balance is achieved.

Thank you for your entry, hope you had a lovely festive holiday and a creative New Year to you.

mission lights
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Comment by tvsometime:
The camera motion generated some fluffy textures. Probably better than the original.

allegory in architecture
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Comment by clickodak:
Nice architecture photography Give 8

mission lights
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Comment by clickodak:
Give 6 because the lack of sharpness. Merry Christmas !!!!

mission lights
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Comment by jomari:
Looks like embroidery. I can almost feel it.

Spartacus of Sequim (pronunced SKWIM)
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Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Love the dog's expression and demeanor, glad to see you listed why you chose to desat the image. Not too crazy about the bleached-out white parts of the dog; being able to master control of those whites is a big part of doing well here. I believe Tiberius' image of Snowy came in second. Snowy is a pure white cat but Tiberius consistently manages to light Snowy subtly enough that he gets all those wonderful soft gray tones in that white fur.

What perplexes me is the noise in the bg. Then I saw your settings. I feel that the very, very slow shutter speed you used - 1/8th is just too slow to capture anything with a pulse (see the slight blur in the left ear?) - along with the fairly high ISO caused you the most in terms of problems here. It would have been better to go with a faster shutter speed to capture movement (at least 1/100th) and, assuming you don't have a real flash yet, use the pop-up flash with just something as simple as a layer of bubblewrap taped onto the surface and an angled aluminum pie plate as a reflector to light from overhead.

Hope this all makes sense, feel free to pm me with any questions

Susan

Spartacus of Sequim (pronunced SKWIM)
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Comment by Jules1x:
Awesome. Great choice of composition imho.