got wind
by blacksheep

Comment by Lilhoop:
different

got wind
by blacksheep

Comment by hotpasta:
i like the perspective

got wind
by blacksheep

Comment by hahn23:
Needed to be the other way around to meet the spirit of the challenge. As is, it's a silhouette against a bright sky.

got wind
by blacksheep

Comment by photo-synthesis:
I really like old windmills as subjects but its not a low key pic, unfortunately there is just too much light!

ghost of a photographer
by blacksheep

Comment by xianart:
cute. nicley done. not sure about the composition, though. the white thing is annoying.

ghost of a photographer
by blacksheep

Comment by MistyMucky:
Very nice! It's the best abstract depiction of a dead I saw in this challenge. The only flaw, IMHO, is the upper left corner, which is too recognisable as a wall...

ghost of a photographer
by blacksheep

Comment by Canadian_eh:
wheres his camera?! hey... I'd hav eit burried with me ;-)

ghost of a photographer
by blacksheep

Comment by Forfie:
ya, that looks like me, scary

moon in the new mexican sky
by blacksheep

Comment by Germaine:
FWIW, I respectfully disagree with Larus. I think this picture has a lot of potential, and a lot of "what's wrong with it" could be corrected with some judicious tweaking of levels and curves to give it more contrast. As it is, it comes across as gray.

I don't know that much about duotones, so I may be way off here, but it seems to me that they were originally made by adding another color to the black and white printing process to make the grays and blacks more vibrant. The end result was still basically black and white.

moon in the new mexican sky
by blacksheep

Comment by LalliSig:
Greetings from the critique club :)

Sorry but this is going to be a little short, this is one of those photos that I don´t really have that much to say about. It´s not bad, it´s not good either, very mediocre for my taste. To be honest, if I had voted, I would probably have looked at it for 1 second, given it a 5 and went on to the next one. There ist just simply nothing really interesting about this shot to me. I emphasize again though that it´s far from being bad though either.

As for meeting the challenge, it certainly does so in my eyes but I think (not sure so take this with a grain of salt) that technically "Duotone" means b/w with some other colour, like sepia toned, or green toned and such. While I would have voted it as meeting the challenge and I think that most people did since the challenge description specifically named b/w, I still think that a couple of people must have voted it with very low because it´s not a true duotone.

One other thing, I suspect this shot would look so much better in colour, with a deep blue sky and green trees and that hill probably brown and such. When I take a photo for a challenge, I try to to just that, take it FOR the challenge, not editing a shot to make it fit the challenge. I suspect you did just that, took a photo you liked that you took that week and just made it b/w to make it fit the challenge.

Sorry, I probably sound very negative for a photo that isn´t bad at all. I mean, it´s well exposed, the composition is good (not great though) and like I said, I would have given it a 5. I see that you are new at DPC, keep in mind that images that do well here usually have a "wow" factor, something people normally don´t see and this is definately lacking in that department. Try something outrageous next time and I´ll bet you will do much better :)

Kind regards, Larus.