My Place of Refuge
by gisele

Comment by Allen:
very nice use of color this picture turned out very well nice work

My Place of Refuge
by gisele

Comment by Sonifo:
Hahahahaha...I see someone likes their gadorade. I do to. Very pretty walls. Good luck.

My Place of Refuge
by gisele

Comment by clues56:
The colors are very good, but it's a little out of focus, and the lighting is uneven.
Why not take the bottles off the table, and this would be a good picture.

My Place of Refuge
by gisele

Comment by pncowley:
This shot has a ton of potential. I would have cleaned up a bit and made the bed. If you had done that, this could have looked like something in a home decor magazine. I wish the lamp wasn't on, that's distracting. I do like your choice of subject and color.

Vintage Lady
by gisele

Comment by ruthiek:
I don't really see complementary colors in this photo -- there are so many colors generally, you can probably pick them out, but they really don't appear to be the subject of the photo.

candled colors
by gisele

Comment by HBunch:
*Critique Club*
Unfortunately, I'm one of those party poopers on here that doesn't particularily care for the blurred shots where little to nothing is recognizable.
The comments you got are full of praise, but don't really explain why you only got a 4.3. Hopefully, I'll be able to help out some.
First thing that jumps out at me, are the colors. The challenge was for secondary colors, which are Purple, Green and Orange. You got some orange in your shot, and so it qualifies, however, the orange doesn't look like the main color in your shot. When I first see this, because of the angle, my eyes are lead from front to back. I see the red candle, then the blue candle, THEN I see the orange.
I also see the blue background. So the Orange isn't really the main focus in my opinion.
Speaking of focus, had not been for your title, I might still be trying to figure out what I'm looking at. I think that blurring, and long exposures work sometimes, when there is a reason. To create motion, or special effects. However, It looks very odd to see your candles producing "motion" all on their own. Why would they be needing any kind of motion effects? If you were trying to blend the colors, I don't think it worked too well. There is a very very small piece of purple, but I think it would need to be more noticable to be effective.
The angle is ok to get all the colors in the frame, but I do think that I would have put orange in the front. Make it the first thing we see.
Overall, just not my thing. I'm a huge fan of detail and this just doesn't have any.
I know people like praise, but I also know that people like to know why they got the score they did. This is only one person's opinion, but it may help to explain the 91 votes you recieved of 1's-4's. I probably would have given it a 3. Hope this helps.
~Heather~

Vintage Lady
by gisele

Comment by heida:
wtf

Vintage Lady
by gisele

Comment by qachyk:
A very strange picture, and I'm afraid the colours are busy enough to not call to mind the topic. Seems an interesting Victorian/Asian sort of mix of costume but the busy-ness of it all detracts.

colors of the heart
by gisele

Comment by autool:
Critique Club Critique

Title: "colors of the heart", by gisele

Composition: A simplistic subject well placed in the frame of the picture. Being a set up shot the blue color seems a bit dark.


Technical: you have good exposure and focus on the subject, even with the slight angle of the shot you have controlled the depth of field to keep all of the image in sharp focus. The dust specks of foreign matter on the white portion is very distracting. I can't see that it is necessary for this shot.


Challenge: you have definitely met the challenge and were on the right track for a win here. It seems to me that splashy, vibrant pictures do well on DPC.


Suggestions: My main suggestion would be to mix some white into both the blue and yellow to lighten them up. It looks as though your lighting, or post processing has taken the impact out of the colors you have presented. At least on my computer they appear dull and not as bright as they need to be to make them POP.

Keep up the nice original work, and thanks for sharing it with DPC.



Disclaimer:
Bear in mind that I am here to learn, just as many others and any comments that I have made are not intended to be offensive in any way, and are only constructive criticisms. If you wish to comment or discuss this critique please feel free to do so at any time.
Thank you,
Dick Pattee (Autool)
Autool@attbi.com

Vintage Lady
by gisele

Comment by kiwiness:
Interesting set up. Did you take this thru a window? The words in the window across the road are mirrored - 5.