White on Blue
by agwright

Comment:
Now this is lighting. A rather beautiful image too, although I can't see it getting very far past the flower police, but I've been wrong many times. great depth and texture to the flower, great use of the technique.

A seat in the sun
by geewhy

Comment:
Interesting abstract idea - let down, for me, but the fact that the over-exposure of the sun-spots makes them all llok out of focus, rather than moving through the plane of focus. I think I'd have exposed for the bright spots, and tried to use levels or curves to bring back the un-lit surface of the seat.

Focus On Happiness
by labuds

Comment:
damn, someone finally did something significantly different with this old trick. Technically excellent work, the purity of those drops is wonderfully well done, but for me, as with all these shots, it's about craft of construction way more than about photography. I'm sure you'll still score very well, however.

Industry&Pollution
by geewhy

Comment:
One of my top pics for this challenge - oddly, all three were from favourite photographers (just shows that I'm right to have selected them). Pretty good scoring and placing, especially for a non-shiny-happy photo on dpc.

Reading Glasses
by Catherine

Comment:
i meant to come back to this and say that despite my comments this was one of my top three in this challenge - that still only garnered you a 7 from me I fear (it just wasn't so striking), but it was clearly among the best. Oddly, all my preferred shots in this challenge were from favourite photographers of mine.

Look Into the Light
by lizzyc3

Comment:
Interesting capture - love the movement of the shade, and indeed the shading on the shade. I'm not sure I'd personally have included the text on the lamp - the sheer interpretability of words draws the eye, and for me lessens the concentration of attention on what I feel is truly interesting here, which is that ever-deepening shadow, and the rhythm of the holes in the shade. Genuinely intersting work though, thanks.

Capturing Elegance
by Konador

Comment:
Something resists - probably just envy - how dare you have access to such facilities, it's tantamount to cheating :-) But I'll resist lowering your score on those weak grounds ... a 9.

year of the dog
by camelotnorth

Comment:
Critique Club

Well, not last at least. As an example of doing this kind of stuff it's pretty reasonable ... though not territory in which I have much expertise, so you aren't going to get a very thorough critique from me on that I fear.

Also, quite clearly, you suffered from the 'photographic integrity' thing that is rife around the site right now. Even though this is 'legal', there is certainly a reaction against the use of it - partly at least, out of fear that the 'real photography' component of the challenge is under threat. Maybe that will lessen as time goes on, but I wouldn't hold out a lot of hope.

It fits the challenge, though. and there is something oriental-seeming in that processing you've done.

Ed

Equine
by jonpink

Comment:
Critique Club

Yeah, just a horse. There's always something to be said for entering a competent photo in a challenge - and it seems to me one can always guarantee a score of a low 6. There isn't really a hell of a lot to critique: as I say, a competent shot. The thing I'd consider is the nature photographers maxim that the eye is the natural point of contact with any subject - get that in focus and your shot will be OK, regardless of the rest. I'm not saying that this eye isn't in focus - but what it is is very weakly placed in the composition. I wonder how much difference it would make to re-shoot or crop the image to put it on a stronger line?

My other thought is that tonally this is perhaps a little weak for dpc. Had you included the white blaze this chap(-ess?) seems to have on his/her forehead, you'd achieve the privileging thing with the eye, give us some variation of colouring, and from the look of the left edge of frame perhaps have some deeper shadow to play with too.

Just thoughts, obviously.

Ed (no, not that one)

When The Day Is Done
by zeuszen

Comment:
Beautiful shot, but 'typically found in a grage'? It may of course be found in yours, but it's hardly a typical garage item.