Thirsty Branches
by pinbokeshatta

Comment by sanx:
Wish I could see the trunks of the branches. The clouds are nice, though.

Station 5
by pinbokeshatta

Comment by maralomar:
nice one, i really like it

Station 5
by pinbokeshatta

Comment by taterbug:
Cool idea. I like how the white really stands out. I think that this shot could maybe benefit from a tighter cropping. Especially at the top, the frame or bar, or whatever that line is across the top seems to really take a lot away from the image.

Thirsty Branches
by pinbokeshatta

Comment by Caine:
Very witty, I like it. The composition would have been better balanced into thirds by cropping about 1/2 the cloud from the top. It's taking too much attention from the braches imo.

Thirsty Branches
by pinbokeshatta

Comment by amjlt:
like the concept.....would have cropped the top a bit tigter.

Station 5
by pinbokeshatta

Comment by loseme:
Nice image

Thirsty Branches
by pinbokeshatta

Comment by rwouthuis:
I like the composition of this. It's nicely laid out. On the down side, the sky is very over-exposed. For a shot like this, metering on the sky only might have helped or a grad neutral density filter to help manage the dynamic range of the photo.

Thirsty Branches
by pinbokeshatta

Comment by davmct:
nice contrast, although wish the blue sky were brightened up a little bit

Thirsty Branches
by pinbokeshatta

Comment by angela_packard:
love the clouds

Ghost milk
by pinbokeshatta

Comment by Artyste:
Hello, and Greetings from the Critique Club. Let's get started.

Initial Thoughts

Confusing.. what am I looking at.. and.. where's the milk? A little too much work into figuring this photo out.

Composition / Content

It's hard to even find something to touch on in this photograph as it's just too difficult to make out what it's supposed to be. I imagine some kind of reflection, but it's hard to make out what it's being reflected in, or even what is being reflected. The title helps a touch, making one think it's probably a milk carton of somekind, but as I keep saying, it's just too much work to figure it out. As a pointer.. this is *death* with voters. If they can't immediately say "AHA!" within 2 - 5 seconds.. you're sunk.

Background

Again, I can't even figure out what the background is or where it should be :)

Camera Work / Technical

Reflection shots are tricky, because if you focus on a reflection, you generally lose focus of the things around it, and in this case, it really makes the rest of the photograph suffer. Using a smaller aperature would help the focus problem, but then you run into lighting problems, especially indoors. It's a tricky problem. More experimentation, of course, would help.. but for DPC challenge photos, I would try to avoid this kind of thing completely unless you can get it almost exactly right.

Digital Processing

Not knowing what you did on the photo makes it hard to comment on this part. A slight yellow cast here, but generally the photo isn't one that processing can really fix. This is mostly a compositional and physically related problem.

Fits the Challenge

With the proper amount of time to really study the image, one can see that it indeed fits the challenge, but I can guarantee the majority of voters simply looked, said "what the heck?" (or something more colorful), voted low, and moved on. Remember.. getting a photo that gets the voter to say "AHA!" right away is very key to getting higher scores.

My Opinion of the Photo

Of course, my opinion was made early, and I stick by it. Too confusing, too much going on without any one thing really standing out, and just generally a photograph of *something*, but could be anything on first viewing. Clarity is so very important, so remember that for next time.

Good luck on future challenges.