Bianco & Nero Series
by Photopromo

Comment:
Great concept... Wonderful images....

::Industrial:Strength::
by tmhalling

Comment:
Not a strong match for the challenge, but such a cool image.

Well seen and well captured. If you had have seen this through a gap in soomething, or there was something even vaguely present in the forground it'd be a 10 for me, but as it is... 9 :-).

well...
by charliebaker

Comment:
I'm sure I've seen this in an art gallery. :-).

Eclipse
by gully

Comment:
I don't know what I'm looking at, but the lines and tones are wonderful.. The composition is great.. I just wish it met the challenge better. But wait, I can vote however I like can't I? :-) 9 from me, cause I like it...

sheflower
by posthumous

Comment:
8 - For the sheer audacity of it. :-). Who said photography had to be complex?

Hummingbird On A Chain
by 777STAN

Comment:
Greetings from the critique club.

I find this image a little hard to look at... I don't mean that it's a bad photo, just that it makes me think to much, I think.

You've shot the image on an angle, and the title tells me that it's hanging on a chain, so I expect to see some blur, or some other sign that the wee bird is swinging around on the chain. It'd be interesting to know if you wanted to show motion by shooting it on an angle?

When you're shooting a photo for a specific 'market' you often need to sit back and wonder how other people will see the shot. Do they see the off angle as a striking feature, or does it confuse the viewer? I think you're somewhere in the middle of confusion and feature with this one..

The other slightly odd thing to my eye is the way the Hummingbird is doing a nose-dive when they are normally shot with their beak horizontal, flying into one flower or another.. If I rotate your shot 90 degrees counterclockwise it looks much more natural to me.

Now that I'm over my confusion with the orienation and movement (or lack there of) the image itself is technically OK. Focus appears to be good on the bird, although it is looks slightly over exposed on the chest/front of the bird. The background hints at where the bird is, but isn't too distracting.

Compositionally (Long word for the day) the chain leads the eye out of the photo.

When I look at the image I see the bird and it's strong colours, then my eye follows the chain up to the top right, and out of the picture. There's nothing to pull me back in. Where you've got leading lines in an image they either need to be the center of attention like a long road or fence leading off into the distance, or they have to have an anchor, to stop them carrying away the eye from the main subject. In this case the chain isn't the main subject, but carries the viewer off to the right where most people naturally want to go in the first place..

Hmmm, that's a bit of a waffly critique, but I hope it's helpful. This image is certainly an improvement on your 2 second entry, which was the intention of this challenge, thanks for sharing...

Cheers, Chris H.

Our Sun
by bcoble

Comment:
Ilike this, but can't help thinking that cropping it from the top and right sides a bit would make it better.. You've framed the sun with the two trees, and the darker clouds, but there is too much sky above for my liking, and the sun is a bit near the center.

Good work, and great to see a dark 'ansel-ish' landscape on DPC in a general challenge. Nice technique.

Für Elise; Notes are there but she knows it by heart
by Krisby

Comment:
Ummmm,

Just a note to say I don't think your arms are fat.. Quite nice actualy. :-).

_I Feel Pretty..._
by Artyste

Comment:
Oh-My-God. :-)...

I just poped into the challenge to take a look while waiting for something to run on my main PC at work... I nearly spit my coffee across the table looking at the thumbnail, and the full image didn't disapoint.

Great stuff, thanks for the laugh Glen..

Mr. Agrizoophobia (In the wild, not taken in a zoo)
by terje

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club...

First impressions.. A really cool pic, and rather you than me! :-).

The greens are wonderful, and the lines of the branches reflected, along with the OOF forground leaves lead into the subject so well.

Technically you've got the focus right where it's needed on the face, and exposure looks right on the money.

This realy is a well executed image, and the only thing I think might be improved is the crop, to remove the distracting detailed leaves at the top of the frame.

They compete a little with the croc for attention, and because they have a full dynamic range (light to dark tones) they are equally attractive to the eye, pulling me away from the main subject.

Having said that, I'm playing around with some bits of paper over the screen and I really can't see how I would crop for better effect, but I still find the leaves distracting all the same.

Wonderful image, thankyou for sharing it with us...