sliver
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Comment by cools98:
Fit Challenge Criteria: 2/2
Contast/Color: 0/2
Composotion: 1/2
Photo Quality: 0/2
My Personal Affinity: 0/2

An overexposed moon is not intereting, no matter what the shape of it. Some stars would have been helpful, and also a better exposure of the moon.

sliver
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Comment by dobilvr77:
This picture has a lot of noise in it. The moon is blurry. I would suggest finding a telescope you can attach your camera to and trying again. it's a nice idea!

sliver
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Comment by ShutterPug:
too grainy and out of focus

sliver
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Comment by lifternessjt:
I find this a bit too grainy. Is this the moon or a planet? If it's a planet, you have one heck of a tele lens!

sliver
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Comment by dahkota:
good attempt at a moon shot. A little too much noise for my taste.

sliver
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Comment by nostalgic:
reallllllly noisy..

Let Go!!!
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Comment by strangeghost:
Greetings from the Critique Club
by strangeghost

The first three parts of this critique are written based purely on examination of your photo. "Final thoughts" is written after reviewing your score, photographer's comments, and voter comments.

TECHNIQUE
Very sharp and well focused, nicely saturated colors, clear message. It's hard to find fault in this image technically. I assume that's a TV screen. It's not easy to find the right exposure to shoot a screen like that, and you've still managed to light the hands perfectly.

COMPOSITION
Very well balanced, perfectly composed/cropped. Nice angles created by having the TV screen skewed. The message is clear, even without the challenge description or title.

EMOTIONAL IMPACT
There is a significant humor component here, which I'm sure got a chuckle out of more than a few voters, as it did from me. Aside from that however, there's really not much to say. It's not a picture that makes one wonder or causes the jaw to drop. It's a nicely composed, technically flawless shot that just... just does it's job. It would make a wonderful stock image.

FINAL THOUGHTS
I didn't vote this challenge so I can't speak to how many similar shots there were, but I imagine out of nearly 90 entries, there were a few other similar concepts. Your score is a bit below average, but given the lack of a real "wow" factor, that's not hard to understand. Very well done on the comp and technicals though.

Temperature-Rising
by outafocus

Comment by PaulE:
Greetings from the Critique Club.

Hi Jon,

Welcome to DPC, and congratulations on your first few submissions.

I will start with what I like - the lovely rich tones and mixing of colour in the glass bubbles - superb. You have used a very narrow framing - this seriously reduces the numbe rof pixels you have available to yourself to show-off your work. Except in exceptional circumstances in DPC I recommend you go for mroe square shots (make the most of those limits they put on us). for the most part your lighting is lovely, except where you have blown out on the underside of the 'coins' - those are too harsh. Getting lighting right (I am learning) is by far the hardest aspect of photography. Then, as has been commented the focus is for the most part very soft. The 'coins' draw the eye in because of their highlights, but when the eye looks for detail it is all ouf of focus.

On the subject of post-processing I can point you to some useful resources:
- as with photography, keep practising and experimenting.
- a good place to start is DPC tutorials
- these Radiant Vista video tutorials are dead useful.

It is my hope that these insights are helpful and constructive. Please feel free to PM me if you have any questions regarding this critique. And please remember to mark it "Helpful" if you found it so. Good luck with future challenges.

Cheers
Paul

Let Go!!!
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Comment by fireserpent:
Gotta love dish network!

Temperature-Rising
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Comment by tinhmocnam:
cool composition