look inside
by posthumous

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Goodness, this is brave. Blur, grain, in-your-face coloration, ambiguity of subject - all ensuring that you put distance between yourself and the admirers of eye-candy-cliche. I like it (despite liking a bit of eye candy myself), I like how it engages the imagination - for me, this is definitely neurological in its suggestion.

Critical stuff: Given the joy of engaging the imagination - I wish you had left us with a less steering title.

Overall: Powerful.

december sunset
by bspurgeon

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Love how you have thrown away the colour option to give us something rather deeper - a concentration of form and light and perspective. What make this is the way the whole thing is compositionally balanced and how you have avoided the ends of the grey scale range.

Critical stuff: Nope

Overall: Characterised by the subtlety of a master at work.

Rumple
by RKT

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: A Lensbaby cat! As someone well versed in dissolving the legs of my own pets in blurry goodness, I like what you are doing here. I particularly like the way the cat is peering down as if eyeing with suspicion the diminishing clarity of the environment underneath. Lovely ones too and through the use of the curtain, a resonance with the work of RKT. As a self-confessed groupie of her work - that's always a good thing in my eye.

Critical stuff: Nope

Overall: Lovely stuff.

jam session
by GiorgioBaruffi

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: You have captured a lovely sense of casual candidness here - it has a really relaxed feeling about it. Much of this sense of calm is due to your lovely coloration. I certainly want to know more about the people - you've managed not to lose them in the photographic trickery of reflection and leading lines. There's a danger such a precise composition would make the image 'of the image' rather than 'of the people' but you've avoid that through a great sense of balance.

Critical stuff. Nope

Overall: Masterful group portrait.

patches
by mitalapo

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Way to us a POV to good effect! Superb (almost magic trick) composition with the zones of population peppering the image. Your title is good too - reinforcing the sense of discrete zones. Excellent toning - I particularly like the 'wave' of black bottom centre.

Critical stuff: Nope.

Overall: Superb scene, superbly seen.

Roman d'Amour
by todbedy

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Superbly seen, composed and exposed. If this is a candid, I'm in awe. If it isn't then I'm impressed that I'm not completely convinced that it isn't! The way the image is broken into two halves - the lift and the stairs - and the way each half is itself beautifully exposed (despite the massively different lighting) and composed is remarkable. More impressive still that this two (quite discrete) halves hang together so well.

Critical stuff: I do wish the structure on the left border of the image had been removed...

Overall: Magnificent work.

STOP AHEAD
by timfythetoo

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Colour-wise, I'm a sucker for these (getting cliched) retro looks, I'll enjoy them long after they go back out of fashion. What makes this effective is how well matched to the scene it is - this image is meant to have this coloration! Subject-wise, I like the 'everydayness' the communication of a chill in the air and the partial sharpness. The contre-jour technique and long shadows are effective too.

Critical stuff: Not really

Overall: A very enjoyable image.

ossuary
by skewsme

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: This looks to live somewhere between a bspurgeon and a skewsme - a pretty good photographic place to be! I really like the way you have captured both detail and glow here. jagar manages that in his street shots and I always like how it looks. This technique really emphasises texture and light and gives the image a well defined artistic identity.

Critical stuff: I'm not keen on the border - it constrains the image and given the grey of the branches - I'd quite enjoy seeing it merge into the DPC grey (the default 1px border aside)

Overall: An image that is true to itself and good at being so!

Morning Walk
by banmorn

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Good overall exposure handling here in what looks like tricky light to me. The people are perfectly rendered, yet we still easily discern the door and the tree shadow. The juxtaposition of the people and the pigeons - both going about their business, works really well.

Critical stuff: Although you've pitched the exposure perfectly, I'd have made some local adjustments in post - I'd have brought the highlights of the wall back and darkened the shadow of the tree for a bit of additional drama. (Though I'm presuming you shot in RAW - you may not have had the dynamic range to do that if you shot in JPEG).

Overall: A fine and engaging shot.

Cold as the Dickens
by Neil

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Great mood you've captured here and you're right - this is suggestive of an old scene - your coloration seems in keeping too, though of course his ear-gear is a little anachronistic. I actually think that adds to it though - it convinces that this isn't a themed place or a living museum but something you've happened upon and interpreted. I like that.

Critical stuff: Nope

Overall: A delightful candid.