The Bridgeby
pekeloComment by macrothing: 
Critique Club Critique
First Impressions
That's interesting and good movement technique.
Photograph Information, Technicals & Composition Review
Well done for doing a lot of experimenting to achieve your vision with this technique. I certainly like how you've centered it with the river/river bed in the center of your movement (and then obviously chosen your composition/crop from there in pp). I also like the way that you have created both movement in the tree branches/leaves as well as extended them into an arch.
I really like the colors and overall palette, however do wonder about some subtle tweaking in pp to bring those colors to life just a little more - packing a little more punch and getting the image to pop off the screen, as it looks like it has the potential to do.
I wonder whether a fraction off the top (and possibly the bottom) of the frame would make this image/scene even stronger.
Fairly minor, but for me, your framing (border) detracts. It is too dominant for the 'delicate wispiness' of the image.
Comments, Score & Placement Review
9 - very very good. 6.21 is a little surprising, but a difficult Challenge, so that may explain it a little. An average of 8.0 from your commenters - all of which seemed to really like your end result and appreciated the effort that went into a difficult image such as this.
Summary
As mentioned above, just some further refining in pp, mainly cropwise and color/contrast boosting, and this might be an even better image - but still very good as is. Congratulations on placing in the top 10 with your (only) 5th entry in nearly 7 years at DPC. Good luck with your photography goal!
edit:typoMessage edited by author 2009-11-09 23:35:46. 
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