color me purple
by ring

Comment:
And we have a winner. :)

Exit the solar system. Comet McNaught. To return in 300,000 years.
by John White

Comment:
Congrats on the blue !
Saw it on Flickr some days ago.

Five On Fire
by ranm

Comment:
Thanks for the comments and the Critique Paul.
I wanted to capture a sence for the heat and texture in the match when it's lit.
So I set the aparture to 3,5 and put the matches in a row, a bent one so I would only get the second one in focus.
My choice was to dhow the detail in the matches, not the fire becouse this is the way I saw it when I lit it.
And It's not at all grainy, I only used ISO200 and did not push it up in PS afterwards, only changed the white balance in the RAW file.
And since DPC only allows a limited sieze of each picture I had to drop the detail and got some grain insted...

All Roses Have Thorns
by ranm

Comment:
Thanks Bolti and karmat for the critique :)

How do I say.....Hello?
by albc28

Comment:
From the critique club
Light; highlights blown out on the left, witch would be okay if the background was cleaner and more light on her face.
You could clean the background up with Photoshop since this was an advanced editing challenge.
The pose seems kind of awkward when you crop a part of her head of.
The eyes seem out of focus, it suits it better to have them in focus. And she has very pretty eyes.
Nice PP on the eyes and the colors are lovely.
The composition would be quite nice with the whole head in the picture.
If you have any questions about the critique feel free to contact me through the PM system.

Breakfast for champions
by Bolti

Comment:
Uss, áttir að skora miklu hærra með þessa.
Til hamingju samt :)

Bill
by Di

Comment:
From the Critique Club
I like the fact that he is in the middle of the picture, it suites him.
You used a rather big aperture so a little amount of the picture is in focus. It comes out nicely.
The background is distracting for me, it would had been better if it was straighter.
One can also see where you cloned out something next to the year.
The light is nice, no harsh shadows or blown out highlights.
But you are missing so many tones of black and white in it, it's mostly just grey. This is easily fixable with levels and curves in Photoshop.
I think you might also consider a little tighter cropping.
The pose is nice; he doesn’t look scary at all to me.
Feel free to contact me through the PM system if you have any comments or questions about my critique.

All Roses Have Thorns
by ranm

Comment:
Thanks for the comments, I made the mistake to sent the DPC file to Flickr and flickr file to dp wich was smaller...

My Baby Girl
by brettt83

Comment:
There's too much contrast in the hair or it's underlit...

what is on man's mind
by eirasi

Comment:
Eir@si ?