Color of Beauty
by ETphonethishome

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club

My first impression from this picture is the abstractness of this picture. While very appealing, it is difficult to find the rule of thirds aspect in this picture. With your use of depth of field, this picture meets the challenge, but in an abstract way that is not obvious when looked at during voting. I believe this may have hurt you in the voting process. Should this have been an abstract macro, this would have likely done much better.

Technically, there is little to fault with the picture as I believe the use of the macro filter has done its job.

I like the use of a shallow depth of field in this, and I hope you will use your macro filter more!

On a whole, the picture is a bit dark. While it creates an interesting mood, I do not know if that is what you intended. In general, DPC voters tend to not prefer moddy, darker photos, and tend to the 'eye candy' photos.

The other thing I noticed is it seems a touch oversharpened, though you do not list it in your processing steps.

If you have any questions, feel free to pm me

Cheers
pidge

Solving Death's Riddles
by Sebi

Comment:
nice picture. I think a touch more light to bring out the details of the specimens would have bumped your score even higher

Hope you got to dissect a few of those critters!

Margherita (150k).jpg
by smyk

Comment:
Unaltered margherita? Send me one my way. I need a break from studying for finals. Like this one, but the I think a better lime wedge could have been used.

Scott-7107-IR-8x10.jpg
by NVPhoto

Comment:
Very nice. IR seems to work well in this protrait. Good stuff!

SD-7067-IR-8x12.jpg
by NVPhoto

Comment:
Very cool. I'm viewing on a crappy uncalibrated laptop, but the details in the leaves are getting a bit lost. If not for that, very cool shot. If you have some time to kill, maybe clone out the table and chairs on the bottom right?

Mac-7118-IR-8x10.jpg
by NVPhoto

Comment:
My least favourite of the three - the IR doesn't really add anything to the picture itself. What makes the picture interesting, the textures, gets lost with the IR

Aspen Rae 02.JPG
by dwterry

Comment:
My preferenece of the lot. I'm not a fan of the - it's a girl so let's make it pink! (personal preference). This one is clean and elegent, so it has appeal for everyone

One side note - consider taking out the word little. The rhthym when reading it sounds better (IMHO)

Chain strain
by jblaylockrayner

Comment:
Long beach! I know that area well! Great perspective on this! Congrats on top 10!

Chain Reaction
by Shermy

Comment:
you're awesome, shermy! Congrats on top 10!

Day 17 - Another Lizard
by MaryO

Comment:
*sigh* makes me wish I could have some for pets again. Nice shot and use of DOF