Do Not Ride Toward The Light ...
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by cowboy221977:
Hello from the critique club....

I see that sidpixel already gave you a critique. However commenting from the critique club (I was the lucky one to draw your shot) I will put my two cents in.

I can see why it didn't do well in voting. But you were expecting that. A shot like this would appeal to a small percentage of DPC voters. I personally think that it tells a story. Anyway I do like your shot for what it is and I am glad that you took this shot for you. Even though you knew in your heart that it would not be perceived well with the DPC community. Happy shooting.

Silly Sun Flower
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by RyanW:
Great job, I really had to look for that line in the sky for the split as well! :)
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If I Hold My Tongue 'Just Right'
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by cowboy221977:
Hello from the critique club...

Better late than never on the critique. I can't believe that this did not receive any comments. It's a very touching shot. I like how the light is shining on the left kids face. That adds something. I would have liked to have seen the phone better. The light is too bright on the phone's screen. Happy shooting

Do Not Ride Toward The Light ...
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by sidpixel:
I would be happy to draw and comment on this through the critique club if given it, so I will comment on it anyway, hope you don't mind.

The foreground bike is obviously the one you have selected for the thirds with its windshield nicely placed on the hotspot. There is deliberate over exposure hence the title, most of us will avoid it like the plague but it is very effective here in helping to emphasise the foreground. You also have some blocking in the shadows which again might be deliberate in blending two extremes together?

I commend you for having the courage of your convictions, the image has a special appeal to you and you correctly anticipated a low score but stood by your choice, well done.

Age Desaturates
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by sidpixel:
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

An appropriate choice of subject for selective desat which obviously meets the challenge well.

I think there are a couple of ways in which the image could have been improved, the main one being the composition itself, the main thing is its just too central. It would have been better to have placed it on one of the thirds, most probably the left third.

Also it is too dominant, if you had shot the barn from further away you could have included more of the landscape and placed it on one of the left hotspots, dependant on whether you were to emphasise the sky or the landscape. Because of the nature of the challenge anything that is desaturated will stand out and therefore become more dominant, this is already the main feature of the image before desat and now overpowers what is left of the landscape to its detriment. You have some lovely greens and blues these ought to have been given a lot more emphasis through your composition.

There does seem to be some inaccuracy with your desat in that there appear to be traces of the original colours in the wood at the bottom left wall and also at the top on the edges of the roof. There is also evidence of sensor dust in the sky.

Happy shooting Sid

Waiting for the Light
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by sidpixel:
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

This is a good example of how important the title is to an image.

I like your composition, making full use of the available frame by placing your main subject at the bottom you have managed to show us most of the landscape they are waiting to photograph. This does of course meet the challenge of procrastination well.

I can understand why you've chosen a large aperture to draw the viewers attention to your two relatives leaving the landscape in soft focus. However, the lack of detail somehow feels a little unsettling because to me, it feels as though this lack of detail is due to the ISO which given your camera is probably not the case.

With regard to your daughter and son-in-law I wish I could see both their faces and some interaction between them but they and the camera just don't feel as much a part of the whole scene as they should. I think a little touch that would have helped would have been to have the scene displayed on the cameras monitor too. The reds of their clothes really helps them stand out against the predominantly green landscape.

A fairly irrelevant observation is the voting pattern, the first time I've ever seen an image with such regularity, its a shame it didn't score higher and receive more comments. I find myself wanting to like it more than I actually do but also struggling to offer more constructive comments than I have, sorry.

Happy shooting Sid

High Five
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by flaherma:
tooling stamps

High Five
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by streetpigeon:
Branding irons for mice.

High Five
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by godot:
stamp for leather.

High Five
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by mlu:
metal stamping dies