handled delicately
by TOY

Comment by CEJ:
Hello from the Critique Club!

I have studied your image and have the following to offer:

Composition/perspective - this is a strong image with a good overall composition. The subject is pretty much the whole image. For the challenge this may be where it fell a bit short. Your perspective is good and captured the essence of the activity quite well without any added distractions. The detail and focus is well done as well as the placement of the subject within the frame.

Color - the colors in this image are fairly strong and well defined. The palette does not have a lot of gradients. Although it covers a broad spectrum from the deep reds and browns to the bright yellows and whites, it is contained so that the bleed between these colors is minimal - hard edges. This may add to the overall crispness of the image. But the exposure time works against that.

Lighting - appears to be nautural light with reliance on the sparks as the main source. This may have influenced your exposure time but hurt in the overall image. The sparks as well as portions of the hands appear blown out which is a contradiction to the overall dark appearance of the scene. Some of the deifnition of the fingers is lost as well as a blending of the streaks of the sparks. Kind of like taking a picture of moving water - a fine balance needs to be applied. The center of the streaks appears blown out/over bright.

Challenge requirements - without the title I would not associate this with Delicate at all. It is a very hard scene with an extremely hard selection of subject matter to view. The sparks are the only delicate aspect and they are bled together to appear as streaks which removes any delicate apsect. There is nothing to suggest delicate handling as your title suggests other than an individual viewpoint.

Overall/my opinion - this could have been a much stronger image with better control over shutter speed and lighting. The scene being so dark, except for the streaks, needed something to boost it up. The longer exposure time failed to do that although I think that is what you were going for. The hands are a bit of a distraction since some of the surfaces are blown out and lacking any definition.

Have you fasten your seatbelts kids?
by TOY

Comment by nemesise1977:
holy cow like that this ride sems um unsafe..like it!

She is more transparent than the rest...
by TOY

Comment by graphicfunk:
Returning for comments:
The coloration here is very rich and rewarding.

She is more transparent than the rest...
by TOY

Comment by Zoomdak:
Here you've got an image that speaks in many ways. It tells the story of the homeless person, and speaks about how humanity ignores these kinds of people. If only the world were full of good Samaritans that would stop and take time and energy for broken people. But most people (including me) just walk by, worrying about their own lives, being selfish with their time and energy. We need to have J.O.Y. First priority is Jesus, then Others, then Yourself. But in society, this usually works out in opposite. But, Jesus cared for the needy. He saw people like this and cared for them even though they may have been transparent and ignored by the rest of the world.
I really like how your image is a visual transparency of the people walking by, but there is a deeper story of how needy people become transparent to the world.
As far as the actual image, I think that you could have cropped I little more of the left off (so the car wouldn't be sticking out off the end of that booth. For me the orange yellow tone works well. It shows the lights of night in a city, but also the yellow may also be showing the bliss of a city, and that is juxtaposed by the grief of the subject.
I wish dpchallenge had more images that had depth on this many levels, way to truly be outside the box.

Have you fasten your seatbelts kids?
by TOY

Comment by echo54:
This is nice. Great contrast . Check it out. Just glad i'm not on it. lol

She is more transparent than the rest...
by TOY

Comment by livitup:
It's a pretty picture, but I don't think that shutter speed type ghosts are really transparency. Too bad you couldn't have known that the shutter speed challenge was coming, this would be a very strong entry there, but it doesn't meet my definition of this challenge.

She is more transparent than the rest...
by TOY

Comment by magnus:
Great photo, and poignant title - 8

Have you fasten your seatbelts kids?
by TOY

Comment by dlprit:
makes me dizzy, I think of Something Wicked this Way Comes

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Comment by ttreit:
This shot feels like it's tipped to the left...something about it feels off balance to me, not sure if it were intentional.

Have you fasten your seatbelts kids?
by TOY

Comment by KarenNfld:
Great motion.