The Blue Pill or the Red Pill
by burfino

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Composition and Lighting: Not much to complain about here, the composition is dynamic with the angles of the pills. And lighting is like a product shot. I'd also like to see what you could do playing with the lights to do dramatic side lighting or back lighting or something.

Technical: The first thing that strikes me is that the focus isn't totally sharp on the red pill. Which at f/29, you would think that would be sharp eh?

Conceptual: Obviously this is where you got killed as far as score goes for this challenge. DPC is quite literal. Personally, I like it since I love the matrix.

Overall: Carry this creativity and attention to lighting across some other challenges in a way most DPCers can understand, and you'll be on the quick road to higher scores =)

Double reflections
by oscarburd

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!
ha ha, what are the chances that the random image pull for critique club would give me the two image you've entered into challenges! Congrats, it's you're lucky day .

Composition and Lighting: Love the reflection you've captured here. It seems to me that the pots are off center (too far right), so maybe either crop the image to make it artistically off center, or divide the pots by the center. Kapesh?
The side-lighting is quite nice.

Technical: Nitpicks: the dust/sand below the red pot is distracting. The top red rim is slightly distracting (either crop it or include more - so that it isn't right along the edge of the frame). Slight noise will get you voted down.

Conceptual: As you've seen, you got hammered DNMC - does not meet the challenge. A piece of advice for DPC: meeting the challenge in a mostly obvious way is almost king. I would say the true importance of a photo entered to DPC is having a wow factor that appeals to the masses and makes it popular. H'anyways, I like the idea you were going for here and think it would have done well had you included 3 pots.

Overall: Keep up the good work.

exit to another world
by disassociation

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Conceptual: Awesome. Think it fits this challenge beautifully. Makes me want to walk though and enjoy the ocean on the other side.
"exit to another world" - what makes this seem other worldly?

Composition and Lighting: The lighting here seems a bit dull. Though the lighting on the clouds and surf in the background is interesting, the overcast tones in the foreground don't give it any emphasis. Maybe at sunrise or sunset with this same frame, you could have captured a totally different scene.

Technical: The first thing that strikes my technical eye is the grainy texture. I think

Overall: Lovely invite into the surf and sun.

Knock. Knock.
by amateurboi

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Composition and Lighting: I like the tilt of the image, makes it more dynamic and draws the eye in (though DPC doesn't generally like tilted images). The lighting seems a bit flat.

Technical: The first thing that strikes my technical eye is the grainy texture. I think grain can be used to effectively boost the mood of an image, but I think it hinders this image. Thought the slight reflection off the floor is nice :)

Conceptual: Not sure what you are going for? A giant teddy bear entering the room?

Overall: Fun idea, but DPC always votes down images with technical imperfections.

Elegant Entrance
by sekarmalathy

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!
Don't thing I've ever given a more in-depth critique to a ribbon winner before, but here goes:

Composition and Lighting: Beautiful. You don't offer much for critique here =). My thing would be that the scene seems to be titled slightly to the right. Lighting is about perfect.

Technical: The first thing that catches my technical eye is the discoloration at the top of the door: the two green lens flare-ish looking things. But that would be easily modified in advanced. The distortion at the bottom of the door frame is slightly bothersome, but again this is a nitpick.

Conceptual: The funny thing to me is that even though this is obviously an entrance and won that challenge, it doesn't say entrance conceptually to me - the doors a closed. They don't invite the viewer to enter in. Though the depth of the pillars do.

Overall: As DPC agrees, this is a winning image. Congrats on the blue.

untitled
by eyeduphotos

Comment:
Why untitled? Couldn't think of a title or are you wanting the viewer to understand the photo for themselves without the title getting in the way?

Someone in the Mirror
by charliebaker

Comment:
This picture still makes me happy =D

Storm over Florence
by LevT

Comment:

Originally posted by LevT: Originally posted by Zoomdak: Awesome shot! Congrats on the yellow. Originally posted by LevT: Basically, half the time was wasted, and I missed a few good bolts because of that. Then I realized that if the previous shot came in empty (no lightning), I can avoid wasting valuable time by turning the camera off and then immediately back on - this interrupts the noise reduction routine. Maybe this tip can help someone in similar circumstances... ...Or you could get a 5d Mark II where you can shoot the next picture while the previous image is still processing. =) I don't have a Canon, but I cannot imagine how this might work - because the NR in Nikons is spent not on image processing, but on recording an image with exactly the same settings as the original shot (same ISO and exposure), but with a closed shutter and then subtracting it from the original image. So while the camera is acquiring a 15-sec noise-only image it cannot take another shot.

That makes sense, yeah. I'm not sure how it works either, but I know that I've been able to shoot another image while the previous one is noise processing (but also, then it takes that extra time processing after both images, or however many images are shot).

Storm over Florence
by LevT

Comment:
Awesome shot! Congrats on the yellow.

Originally posted by LevT: Basically, half the time was wasted, and I missed a few good bolts because of that. Then I realized that if the previous shot came in empty (no lightning), I can avoid wasting valuable time by turning the camera off and then immediately back on - this interrupts the noise reduction routine. Maybe this tip can help someone in similar circumstances...

...Or you could get a 5d Mark II where you can shoot the next picture while the previous image is still processing. =)

Kiwiness & Anastasia Shooting Film
by Azrifel

Comment:
Looks like Kiwiness is pointing to what should be the LCD =).