Anticipation
by HawesPhotoKC

Comment by eschelar:
pretty cool. I'm a bit disappointed by the softness in their faces, but I love the rest.

Anticipation
by HawesPhotoKC

Comment by CalliopeKel:
Gorgeous!!

Anticipation
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Comment by bdenny:
I'm sure the couple loves their pictures too! This is awesome (and a bit steamy)!

Afternoon Stroll
by HawesPhotoKC

Comment by KaDi:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

I like the setting! It's colorful and dramatic. Someone has said before that one way to make an interesting photo is to find a great background and wait for something to happen in front of it...this is one of those backgrounds.

However, I have to agree with 2/3rds of your commentators that the couple gets lost in the image. It's hard to see their reaction or relationship to the setting. They appear barefoot and I strain to determine that. Their faces are turned toward the graffitied wall...so I can't really get what they might be thinking about it.

I think this might do better in a larger format. But, for a DPC challenge entry, it's got to suffer for its size. Maximize the size available by using all 640 pixels width (you've got only 620 here). Limit the size of your border to maybe 3-5 pixels max so that there's more room for the image but still some definition from the gray background...and only when you really need a frame to contain your image. Crop as much as you can to make sure the subject is most prominent, too. But, in the end, you need to know that panoramic-type images just don't show off well within the constraints of the challenges at DPC. I think, too, that this could benefit from some sharpening before you save for web...it would heighten contrast and really bring out those transitions at the boundaries of black.

Looking at some of your other entries, you have a great eye for photography. This just isn't your strongest entry. Keep shooting! Keep entering! ...and good luck!

Anticipation
by HawesPhotoKC

Comment by Dr.Confuser:
Ketchup?

Together... anywhere
by HawesPhotoKC

Comment by Cboydrun:
***From the Critique Club***

First Impression - the most important one:
Great! The ground is not quite horizontal, (which I like), definitely faceless, definitely extreme emotion! And GREAT perspective.
Composition:
Absolutely lovely... I think if it was me, not that me or anyone should tell you how to shoot, but I may have made sure the ground was level, and then move the frame a little to the left to get more of the side building which adds such great perspective.
Subject:
Definitely portrays emotion, and whoever they are have such great poses, makes me think that it wasn't a pose and they really are in love!
Technical (Colour, focus, and light):
Good colour, focus and light! I think I would have selectively saturated the sky a bit more, oh and regarding your comments about the power lines, don’t worry about them I didn’t notice until I read your comment, and otherwise you would have empty power pole down the picture! lol
Artistic:
Probably 9 out of 10 here. (I never gives 10's unless its perfect!) I think it would have been a 10 if you had done what I suggested above, level the ground and move frame left.
To grow its vote?:
See above!
Summary:
I really like it! A nice light image, that makes you feel good. Wonderfully composed and all of that.

Hey hey your highest rated image yet, good job! Congrats on breaking the 6 point boundary.

Happy shooting, CBoydrun.

Together... anywhere
by HawesPhotoKC

Comment by ShannonLee:
this is freakin cool.
missed it in the challenge
great workkkk!!!!

Anticipation
by HawesPhotoKC

Comment by surfdabbler:
Great post, but neither of them look like they want to go through with it. :)

Together... anywhere
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Comment by NewEnglandDixieBelle:
Shows love can endure though the road may be bumpy and uneven.

Together... anywhere
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Comment by posthumous:
Phenomenal. Imaginative, Original, but not the least bit obscure. This sings.