Astoria Bridge in Oregon
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Comment by Haneck:
Wonderful image! The composition is great. I actually like how everything is gray in this shot... the lack of contrast gives this a very brooding, moody atmosphere. Good job!

carousel fascination crop.jpg
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Comment by Haneck:
Beautiful! I love it! :)

Carousel Fascination
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Comment by Haneck:
beautiful! THe lighting and the colors... I think I might have cropped a little off the bottom, just because I love the golden lights on the top of the image. But that's just my opinion! :) Sweet capture.

Carousel Fascination
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Comment by CapeSail:
Very cute pose, it seems slightly OOF though. Nice motion capture in the background.

Carousel Fascination
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Comment by JenniferDavidGA:
IMO- The girls need to be sharpened a bit. The whole shot needs to be brightened up.

Carousel Fascination
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Comment by neophyte:
I entered this shot in the feb free study but I think this came out more like what I was trying to do. Nice work.

Harley Davidson Dyna Glide
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Comment by ambaker:
Critique Club Review:

Contrary to what people say size does matter, especially in photographs. In any challenge, you should take advantage of the size allowances and the kilobytes allowed to get the most detailed entry possible.

Smaller photos can hide softness of focus, and other ills, and all to often the voters suspect that is what has been done.

Overall I like the composition, lighting, exposure, contrast, brightness. B&W was an excellent choice for this piece. I don't believe color would have worked nearly was well. I really can't judge shapness at this size. There does not apprear to be any artifacts from over processing.

I like this picture a lot, and had it been full size you would have scored much higher.

Harley Davidson Dyna Glide
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Comment by karmat:
I didn't vote, but I would like to address digitalknight's concern that you were "punished" unduly for the small size. The smaller the picture, obviously the more difficult to see the details etc. But, it can also hide flaws and such, that at a full size would hurt the picture.

I don't know what software you are using, but if you go to Learn>Tutorials, down towards the bottom is a tutorial for resizing for dpc. If you are using something other than photoshop, feel free to ask in the forums, or do a forum search for "resizing" or something like that.

That is an awesome picture, and the bw really does it well. Chrome is a very difficult subject to do well. I like the tight composition, and do think it might make a neat print.

Congrats on your fist entry!

Harley Davidson Dyna Glide
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Comment by digitalknight:
so because it's not big enough voters punish you to THIS extent? This is ridiculous. No matter what size this is great composition and should be voted on for the photography.

I'm sorry. If I could change the small minded voting trends I would - :-)

Harley Davidson Dyna Glide
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Comment by jenesis:
A cool B&W photo but because of the size we lose alot of the detail that really would have made this photo stand out.