Battery Point Lighthouse at Sunset
by Catherine_B

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I was here awhile back on a motorcycle tour. Nicely captured.

Ghost People
by Dr.Confuser

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Originally posted by roz: whattha .. i seriously thought this image would either ribbon or come in the top 5 .. just goes to show that i really have no idea .. but i know what i like .. and to me this was one of the standout images in this challenge .. sorry it didnt get what it deserved .. :(

Thanks for your original comment and your most recent comment. In some ways this may be the best photo I’ve taken. It is an honor that you recognize the photo with your comments!

Keswick
by MAK

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I've spent quite a bit of time there and love Keswick. Nicely captured.

The Bridgedeck
by Bear_Music

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Like your subject and perspective. Would like the photo better if HDR treatment was less extreme.

Openspace
by Dennisheckman

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Congratulations on the blue. Well done! Nice to see you on the front page!

Dimension
by Cuttooth

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Love the processing on this and especially the color treatment. Doesn't hurt to have been shot in paradise.

3 Crows + 1 Open Window
by Dr.Confuser

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Originally posted by sidpixel: *Hello from Sid and the Critique Club* An interesting image that meets the challenge. This is an appealing image in all sorts of ways but the detail is what holds your interest well, the challenge of your title too I reckon! It is a lovely building with some lovely detail and lovely tones all very appealing. I don't agree with your commenter about it being slightly crooked I think what they are seeing is a very slight tendency towards converging verticals from your shooting position below. Hah, I see it yes, the top is askew he were right you know! Having said that the bottom is not, ok I give up! Although it is a well executed image I think where it fails in terms of the challenge is that the DOF from use of f8 is not obvious and this is perhaps why it scored lower. I think for the purpose of this challenge you need to demonstrate the f8 aperture through a selective DOF and perspective. This could quite easily have been taken at f4 for example but because it is all on the same focal plane you wouldn't know the difference. Thanks for your submission, Sid

Thank you for the kind words. Much appreciated.

By way of explanation, I was editing on a tiny laptop with an old version of PS and without my normal suite of pluggins and I committed an editing error i didn't spot which would have corrected the skew at the top. Good catch to you and godot.

I disagree completely with your comments on DOF. The building was about 150 feet from where I was standing. F/8 gives considerable DOF at this distance. If I had the time I would dust off my trig skills and compute the distance from my point of view to the center of the building which is obviously in focus. Then compute the distance to the right or left edge. I believe the DOF offered by F/8 would clearly have them both in focus. And since they were in focus, and since it was shot at f/8 the math would prove unnecessary. It is perhaps unrealistic to expect a photo like this to demonstrate softening associated with shallow DOF.

This was essentially a 'free study' where the only constraint was f/8. If the image fails, it is because there were better photos it competed with. Better subjects which captured greater voter interest. It's a complex image that requires a little study to appreciate. I'm grateful for your attention to detail, but it's more than I expect from casual DPC voters. I'm pleased with where it placed. I'm disappointed in my self for not catching the editing error. And I'm thankful for your thoughtful critique. ;)

noun: \ˌkyu̇r-ē-ˈä-s(ə-)tē\ - City Built Inside a Pyramid
by Dr.Confuser

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Originally posted by sidpixel: *Hello from Sid and the Critique Club* An interesting image that fails to meet the challenge I'm not sure that this fits the challenge it doesn't suggest curiosity to me but I am making a guess that you are inviting people to peep into another world here and by implication arouse or sate their curiosity in doing so. If that is a correct assumption I suppose it fits the challenge in an obscure sort of way. But to me the image doesn't invoke or instil a feeling of curiosity in itself. I suppose my negativity about the image fulfilling the challenge brief is because this feels very much like a model village, it just has a very unreal feel to it. The image is certainly unique in the respect I've never seen anything like it before but I just sort of feel – why? I'm intrigued by the strange ISO number? You have a good DOF throughout, the softness in the topmost arch is irrelevant and doesn't impact the rest of the image which is nice and sharp. Any distortion inevitable from such a wide angle lens is very pleasing and adds to the end result. I quite like the image itself but I probably would have scored it midway for the reasons already discussed above, thanks for your submission, Sid

I disagree it fails to meet the challenge. Curiosity is also a noun, signifying something unusual, curious. I do agree many will have missed the meaning since even native English speakers are grammatically challenged.

It is a REAL village, housed on the floor of the Luxor Hotel ... which my Photographer's Notes details. For the record, nothing in Las Vegas is real. Just saying. And further for the record, I look at most things in Vegas and ask ... why ... ?

ISO number ... it is strange. I just report what Bridge tells me.

In any event, I appreciate and value your critique. If nothing else, it helps me understand how others who are not so close to the image see it. Thanks for that.

Eh, what the hell, dog.....
by LoVi

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Going for the brown?

On Many Levels
by Dr.Confuser

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Originally posted by Ann: Ha. Love it. I can see that bridge from my house (top of Magnolia hill).

Did you see me shooting it last saturday???