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Comment by Alain:
It would have been a lot better with more deep of field.

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Comment by atupdate:
Hello from the Critique Club,

I like the action of this image a lot. You have a good eye for capturing action as it unfolds. Obviously from your score, there is room for improvement with this image. There are two major elements that are negatively affecting your entry in this challenge. First, the faces of the players are not as sharp (in focus) as the voters at DPC like to see. Not knowing what software you have or what post processing steps you used, I downloaded your image and used USM twice [1 radius, 100 strength, and 5 clipping], once before processing and once after I tweaked a few things. This seemed to help the sharpness considerably. The second issue is that both players seem to blend into the trees in the background. This can be corrected by using levels [RGB increase gamma to 1.33, decrease red channel output to 225 from 255], saturation [Increase 25], and Contrast/Brightness [+10 each]. If you would like to see the image I tweaked, let me know and I̢۪ll be glad to add it to this comment.

Send me a PM if you have any questions regarding this critique.

Tim

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Comment by lynnmarie:
out of focus

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Comment by atupdate:
Fits the challenge well but the subject as presented is rather ordinary. You might want to consider cropping just a bit off the top, as the sky is rather featureless and being brighter than the trunk, it naturally draws the viewer's eyes away from texture of the tree bark.

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Comment by muckpond:
i think this would be stunning in b/w.

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Comment by russel:
very nice. its got a stroy behind all that bark.. but the depth of field looks a bit funny.

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Comment by NoellaSue:
Not enought in focus.

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Comment by skewsme:
I had a similar shot in the Textures challenge - hope yours fares better ;-)

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Comment by starrlite:
needs more focus at the top

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Comment by irakly:
i love it!!! best shot so far :)