Blue Moon
by vtruan

Comment:
Critique Club

INITIAL RESPONSE: WAOW. Really appealing .. blue .. Really greta picture

COMPOSITION-CONTENT - Good composition and content ... nothing to say .. the vignetting looks aproriate to me or do not bother me .. it make us looking trought the lens with you ...

BACKGROUND-None. Nothing specific .. vignetting is part of the backgroud (see above)

CAMERA WORK-TECHNICAL- Some noise. I have never really seen amateur astronoical picture .. but the noise seems to be very well handled in that case and give some 'atmosphere' to the shot

DIGITAL PROCESSING - TECHNICAL - See above .. I do not really know what to expect for such a shot.

MY OPINION ON THE PHOTO - A great great shot .. I would lilke to have done that one .; I am been wondering recently what scope should I get (no too expensive) to do something like that. It looks like a 20x does it. Anyway .. I like the picture really a lot . .congratulations

Lionel

Water level on the rise again
by jjbeguin

Comment:
INITIAL RESPONSE: Nice 'flod' picture with a touch of humor. Very adequate to the challenge. Brown picture with touch of color drawing the eye.

Composition/Background :
Nice comosition (like framing the center of the picture) . Maybe would have been a little better with the toy truck not 'touching' the reflection of the house (maybe). I like the contrast bertween the gree/red and the brown of the rest of the picture. Maybe some 'unused and distracted space' at the bottom. (Maybe try to crop less to remove the bottom part and the 'block( in the reflection at the bottom. Try to crop a 640x427 for this one (maybe)

TECHNICAL : I like the exposure a little bark/somber ....it makes the picture a good 'flood documentary' picture. Good depth of field.

DIGITAL PROCESSING : Not too oversharpened wich I like , the surface of the water has details which I like.

MY OPINION ON THE PHOTO - I like that picture .. I do not find it 'appealing' but I like it. I wish you had done a little better in that challenge.

Lionel
Critique Club

Local Artist....
by Digipixer

Comment:
INITIAL RESPONSE: Not specifically appealing to me, a 'documentary' picture.

Composition/Background/Exposure :
I think the light is not very appropriate, it cast very strong shadow and the person it too 'dark'. I would have prefered to see better the face of the person to make it more 'live'.

TECHNICAL : The depth of field is appropriate to show all the elements. You did not oversharpen which I like.
Maybe you could try to adjsut the 'curve' in photoshop to enhance the details in the 'underexposed' part of the picture ?

MY OPINION ON THE PHOTO - I do not like specifically that picure, even for a documentary. to me this picture describe the activity correctly but it miss something that would make it really interesting.

Lionel
Critique Club

Christmas Season is Upon Us ( small town news)
by Sonifo

Comment:
Critique Club

INITIAL RESPONSE: Nice original Christmas shot. Probably nt technically easy. The pole on the left disturb me a little. NIce tones (though I do not know how to qualify the color).

COMPOSITION-CONTENT - Very nice composition and framing. ANimals are perfectly position to balance the picture. Perfect positioning, the circle of light being in the bottom part preventing the picture to look 'centered'. The pole bother me ... a little by itself but also because it is very close to the animal hean, though not touching it. However, somehow it brings depth to the picture ... probably would have prefered it on the right part (digital processing as a try).

CAMERA WORK-TECHNICAL- Perfect exposure .... light are not too 'blown' thought very bright , nice details in the snow ... good perimeter of light. I would say very very good exposition.

DIGITAL PROCESSING - TECHNICAL - Did you bring the tones through processing ? If yes very good job. Not too oversharpen to my taste

MY OPINION ON THE PHOTO - I like the picture, the atmosphere a lot ... outside dochalleneg I would try without the pole and with the pole on the right (if you're not agains moving things in your picture).
Very good picture.
I would have like taking that one myself ! Congratulations.

Lionel

North Hatley Fog
by mariomel

Comment:
Critique Club

INITIAL RESPONSE: Appealing .. blue .. a little too centered ? Fit the challenge ? Some 'japanese'/zen touch

COMPOSITION-CONTENT - Nice composition/Reflection .... appropriate color (is it post processing or just natural blue being 'pushed') ? It looks a little too 'centered to me (the 'deck') but could not think about something better. Very nice touch brought by the snow.

BACKGROUND-None/Fog. Very nice foggy atmosphere. I love the fog hiding everything in the background.

CAMERA WORK-TECHNICAL- Nothing special. Good exposure.

DIGITAL PROCESSING - TECHNICAL - I liked that you did not 'push' the contrast. Tones of blues are nice and appropriate.

MY OPINION ON THE PHOTO - I like the 'zen' impression a lot, the quietness of the atmoshpere ... almost magical and 'oout of time'.
I would have like taking that one myself ! Congratulations.

Lionel

phew.. thank God they invented this machine...
by bayu

Comment:
I like it. I know you cannot do all you want here in dpchallenge, but for yourself , did you try cropping a little (just get rid of the window border part on the right, it's distracting), and rotate a little ? . 7. Lionel

Caution Yellow
by goodtempo

Comment:
Very nice shot color shapersmaybe I would have get rid of the 'whatever you call it' in the upper right corner but very nice.8. Lionel

To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before ...
by magnetic9999

Comment:
Air and space museum ? I thought about going there last sunday. 6. A little too cluttered for my own taste, but good exposition/colours/contrast. Lionel

Rascal at the Window
by lochiano

Comment:
I like the shot but I do not see the challenge at all in it.8 an other week, 6 this week. Lionel

Growing of the Nuclear Plants
by sahko

Comment:
I love that shot ... everything in it, I like the conveyd mesage as well ... one of py prefered this week. Probably you'll get comment about the red/white small chimney .. I do not know if it would have been better if you had moved jsut a little so it does not 'toouvh' the big one. but Very nice. 8. Lionel