Deep Thinker
by karmat

Comment:
Not sure that a pure black and white wouldn't have been more effective - the tone you've chosen gives a very odd cast to the skin-tones, especially around the mouth area. Nice study though.

In the absence of orange
by tyrkinn

Comment:
Critique Club

Hi Haraldur

I like the idea behind this shot - in many ways perhaps the most imaginitive I've seen from this challenge: just take a normal image, and adjust out until you have two secondary colours - it's added interest to what would perhaps be a pretty ordinary scene whilst sticking completely to the challenge.

Whilst 5.5 is an acceptable score in my eyes, and 63rd a pretty good placing, I think it's the original shot rather than the processing that has kept the score down, and I think the problem with that shot is the composition - there are no verticals here at all, nothing really to disturb the horizontal lines other than the points of streetlighting. The cloud pattern is interesting, but not very interesting, and the reflections in the water likewise. I think perhaps also the horizon is set too low - that top area of sky doesn't really add a great deal to the image. I'd like to have seen it cropped or framed much closer in to the town, to let some real detail come out - you could even have made a feature of the progression from water to town to sky in a portrait composition, which would have been quite striking.

Interesting shot though - and a top idea. With a really dynamic base image you could have been in ribbon territory I think.

ed

ice cream hut
by deceptive

Comment:
Have come back to this shot from just browsing around the site: really like it now, much more than I did at the time of voting. Two contrasts going on, betweeen the shades of green and the textures, and both excellently brought out. I'd guess it didn't score better because you only used one colour, but I'm not that much of an expert on the dpchallenge communal mindset. Now if those darker panels had been orange ... :)

Ed

Quarter-Eye
by mbardeen

Comment:
Such an interesting subject the eye, aspecially as you get closer to it. Those damn trees are a pain though, I think: never quite present enough to really help the composition, and almost impossible to get out of sight. This is a good shot though: love the way blue skies go black in b/w photography.

Ed

Hyper Drive
by DennisF

Comment:
In a way, I can't see this as an interpretation of the movie - however, I like it so much that hardly matters: it has an impression of the effects from the film. Love the colours, the motion (is it a multi-exposure?), and the wierdness of the viewpoint. would have done wonderfully in the transportation challenge. 8

Impressionist canvas
by Gordon

Comment:
Hi Gordon, your Critique Club moment is at hand ...

I'm not really going to make any technical comments - you're obviously fully in control of your camera and get pretty much the image you chose.

So I get to be artistic. The first thing that struck me was the odd mirror-like feeling with the two flowers bottom right (and this gives the lie slightly to you 'unconventional composition' comment: the TWO of them are right on the thirds line). I find that a quite alluring effect - though it's disturbed by the left of frame flower, which moves into the field rather than existing wholly within or out of it as do the others. That, visually, produces a tension that might otherwise have been missing from the shot.

The in-focus flower does have the fragility you speak about - perhaps most because of the light - that direct sunlight (presumably), emphasises the thinness of the petals, the transparency of them, the fact that they are so breakable - rather than the effect of the 'accepted' diffused light which simply brings out the colour. This i think works well with the previous observation - that movement through the field of focus is contrasted again with the fragility here to make another tension; a friend once said about making radio programmes that one should never produce anything where only one thing is going on.

What there also is here is some sort of evolution of shape: as the flowers come into focus, there's an intersting progression from complete blob to the complex definition of the flower; a little like watching it grow.

Which is enough for now: that's an attempt to be specific about why I like this shot - I didn't vote, and couldn't tell you what I'd have scored it, as I doubt I'd have spent as long looking at it as I have now.

a down-side (there has to be one): the 'other' colours in the background - I think it would have been cleaner, and keot attention more purely to the flowers and those purple shapes, had there been simply green in the background, and not the white and pale purple moments too.

Good luck

Ed

Hemlock Gorge
by salparadi

Comment:
It wasn\'t until I was looking through some of my own shots and saw one of a beach taken from the top of a cliff, making the beach look like it was only 6 feet away that I realised what this was. Not sure I should think any the better of it for knowing what it is, but I do. 9/10 - couldn't quite say i like it enough to make it a favourite, which is all that stops it from being a maximum

Natures Purple, Man's Yellow
by K-Rob

Comment:
I'd like to see this srtaghtened so that the lamp-posts and flag-poles aren't slanting. I actually think this might have been more intersting withoutt the lightning - it isn't a particularly intersting strike.

The One With Cool
by pupparazzo

Comment:
:-)

Yellow Matrix Blue Reload
by CosmosFotos

Comment:
Now this is a properly interesting abstract photo: a rare thing, even more so on dpc. Excellent colouring, fascinating composition, and just enough suggestion of being something real to catch the eye. I'd guess it's pipework, and then hue shifts etc.