A City's Nightlife
by cutiephinphin

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Hello from the critique club

An appealing image that makes a contribution to the challenge.

First of all welcome to DPC Jeannie. You have a colourful and well executed cityscape with good detail throughout. Your chosen aperture has given you a good DOF and long exposure to create some unique motion in the clouds above the buildings. I like the contrasts between the dark blue of the sky and green/yellow of the base. A minor improvement, I think would be to crop the pole on the extreme left and the lamp on the extreme right, they are just a little close to the edge and the scene behind it would probably benefit a little too.

Petrified
by tylskie

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Hello from the critique club

An appealing image that makes a contribution to the challenge.

A gruesome but interesting fish skeleton. I like the diagonal that you’ve used for your composition and the lighting is picking out the detail and texture which works well against the pebbly background. The colours are good too. I don’t really get the feeling suggested by the title, it is what it is a skeletal fish head, a good documentary photograph but not really anything more than that, sorry Erin.

Temptress
by jjstudiosphiladelphia

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Hello from the critique club

An appealing image that makes a contribution to the challenge.

I think your commenters have given you some useful critique here. They are all correct to a degree, unfortunately this is not quite working because there feels a general underexposure combined with some rim lighting together with stray lighting that is partially illuminating areas that don’t really help the end result. I think you are to be commended for trying to create something original probably of a low key nature but it didn’t quite work to its best. I do quite like it but what lets it down most is the rim lighting of the leg its counter to the feel of everything else going on here

Pear Trees in Bloom
by Cyrilda

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Hello from the critique club

An appealing image that makes a contribution to the challenge.

Well Susie, you’ve certainly got soft focus and high key to meet the challenge brief but its not quite working. They elements have no cohesiveness there is no focal point against a backdrop of uninteresting bland white sky, I’m sorry but it just fails to hit the spot. I do like the curve in the road, though I’d probably have cropped the left corner out. I think perhaps a panoramic with much less sky and a slower shutter speed with correct focus but softness created through motion blur from a slower shutter speed may have worked better. Sorry Susie, better luck next time.

Stellar Jay
by Ja-9

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Hello from the critique club

An appealing image that makes a significant contribution to the challenge.

What a brightly coloured conspicuous little bird you have captured here. That blue plumage is really quite striking. Its a lovely pose with bird looking into the frame with a nice profile of his beak and features. The twisted silver twigs of the tree to are quite remarkable, I like the way you’ve composed with the bird on the left with everything flowing to the right. All in all a great shot janine, well done.

Elegant
by gintay

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Hello from the critique club

An appealing image that makes a significant contribution to the challenge.

Elegant being a most appropriate title Gin Tay, a lovely image. The composition is lovely with the strong base at bottom left and that lovely sinuous stalk reaching up in to the frame topped by the gorgeous yellows of the petals. I love the pastel shades and the lighting sets it all off really well. The soft focus background is nicely done too with just enough and not too much detail to detract from the flower itself, a lovely job well done.

Squeeze the Piss Out..............
by Phocal

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Hello from the critique club

An appealing image that makes a significant contribution to the challenge.

Well done Ronnie, a cracking image with a cracking lens, a great start with your new acquisition. Your chosen technique of manual focus has undoubtedly saved the day here, so often when there are foreground reeds as here the focus will suddenly flip just at that critical moment, you have avoided that problem, well done. As for the image itself well, it really has everything, down to good timing and patience on your part. You really have got your wildlife shots well nailed. As for the pee, I think I might too in that situation!

pollination
by booboo_goon

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Hello from the critique club

An appealing image that makes a significant contribution to the challenge.

A lovely image Luana. I like your composition and crop with the sharp stamens on the hotspot and the shallow DOF you’ve opted for with maximum aperture. The white background provides the high key aspect without any distraction to contend with its all working very well. The lighting is good too. I like the greenness of the stalk it provides a nice balance with those dominant reds. All in all Luana its a masterful job that I’m surprised didn’t score higher, well done.

Gulls In Flight
by Drake

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Hello from the critique club

An appealing image that makes a significant contribution to the challenge.

Indeed Drake, you are right it fits the challenge brief perfectly. The foreground bird is nice and sharply captured with lovely balance provided by the background soft focus bird, I like the way their wings are interlocking it makes for a lovely composition. The only minor criticism is the amount of empty sky above them I think if you cropped nearer to the tops of the birds it would improve the overall result.

Hello world
by Srikanthgumma

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Hello from the critique club

An appealing image that makes a significant contribution to the challenge.

First of all, welcome to DPC Srikanth. I would say you’ve made a very commendable start to your infant photography, this is very well executed with the all-important eye nice and sharp. There is an air of vulnerability mixed with curiosity that makes this a very appealing image. The DOF is good with nice soft focus in the fore and background. I like that you have chosen to present this in mono which in itself is quite unusual as most shots at this early age are done in colour. I think a little judicious cropping of the right to bring the child more off-centre would improve the end result but all in all a great image, well done.