Go home before the storm
by clickodak

Comment by sidpixel:
Hello from the critique club

An appealing image that contributes well to the open challenge

Your panoramic study has some lovely colours and detail with some good pin points of light to highlight the foliage and in particular the bows of the boat. I like the detail of the boat with the lit bows and the thrust of the prop clearly evident it is moving through the water with some haste and determination, hence your apt title. The storm cloud sky is and essential and very effective element of the scene. Each to their own opinion but I have to disagree with one of your commenters I think this composition and crop works really well.

Go home before the storm
by clickodak

Comment by martinkulik:
Overall nice image, but composition/frame needs some works.

Window Cleaning High-Rise Buildings
by clickodak

Comment by sidpixel:
Hello from the critique club

An interesting image that meets the challenge

Your high vantage point has enabled you to add interest by illustrating how precarious a simple task like cleaning windows can be when faced with a high-rise block. In choosing to do so you have made the building dominate the image and whilst the left wall is interesting this face is rather dull and has the effect of reducing the overall impact. Given that the left of the image is much more dynamic a more effective option would have been to compose the image with the end wall on the right and the cityscape in the rest of the frame still fulfilling the challenge brief. Thanks for your entry Marcel

Go home before the storm
by clickodak

Comment by Cyrilda:
I normally don't care for pano but the colors really tell a story. 8

Go home before the storm
by clickodak

Comment by Marfun:
Nice tones.

Go home before the storm
by clickodak

Comment by bmartuch:
Very nice wide angle perspective.

Abandoned
by clickodak

Comment by sidpixel:
Hello from the critique club

An interesting image that meets the challenge

I can see why this appealed to you, well observed Marcel. I like the concept and observation but the blue of that sky is just too dominant. I don̢۪t think you needed to include all of the building in fact by cropping out the top half of the image the message that the scene is past its best comes through much stronger, I̢۪m looking at this scrolled up to a level just below the gantry entering from the left and it works much better for me. Try it, see what you think?

Abandoned
by clickodak

Comment by tnun:
striking contrast with that background.

Autumn Leaf Path
by clickodak

Comment by sidpixel:
Hello from the critique club

An interesting image that contributes well to the challenge.

Well done Marcel this is a good first attempt at HDR. Yes, I do like the composition, I like the foreground space and colours and the dominant tree on the left that forms a very effective frame with its branches linking to the rest of the image and the off-centre path leading us into the rest of the image. I like that you have managed to bring out the vibrant colours in the tree canopy. If you could have had a distant person or animal at the end of the path that would have completed the image but it still remains a very good image well done Marcel

Autumn Leaf Path
by clickodak

Comment by tnun:
the colours are enveloping. I feel swathed in autumn colours.