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11/09/2009 06:33:06 PM |
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:typo
Message edited by author 2009-11-09 23:35:46. |
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11/05/2009 04:21:30 PM |
| Beautiful impressionism! A top pick for me, glad you at least got top 10. |
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11/03/2009 07:50:41 PM |
| amazing .. like a wonderful and strange painting .. seems like a magical fairy land .. WOW .. !.. |
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11/03/2009 07:50:17 PM |
| WD on Top 10, very Monet like. 10. And hand held too! |
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11/03/2009 07:26:36 PM |
| Really subtle: your circular brush simply enhances the canopy and streambed. |
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11/03/2009 02:58:48 PM |
| In my top two. Well done! |
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11/02/2009 06:24:46 PM |
| Love that the center of the swirl leads my eyes to the right spot. |
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11/01/2009 02:09:24 AM |
| Very nice. Maintained just enough sharpness to be a landscape rather than an abstract. Good work with the border, too. |
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10/30/2009 10:50:19 AM |
| Beautiful colors, the bridge at the center really grounds the composition. Like a painting. 9 |
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10/30/2009 07:06:44 AM |
| I think you hit the mark with this one and this challenge. Movement leading my attention to main subject which remained horizontal. Bloody marvellous. |
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10/29/2009 07:19:37 PM |
| Oh, I like this, very artistic, high marks |
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10/28/2009 06:04:52 PM |
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10/28/2009 10:36:40 AM |
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