Twosome
by h2

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 false colour works wonderfully well and provides a great backdrop for the silhouettes. The figures add bags of interest and the obscured sun is the cherry on the cake.

Critical stuff: Nothing.

Overall: A very effective image.

City
by bvy

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: Brave blurriness, brave greyness too. It's like you've actually tried to make an anti-picture here. Reduce the scene to such banality that the drip marks on the glass become (by virtue of being removed from the banality of the city) the most interesting thing to gaze upon.

Critical stuff really: It is hard to 'like' the image - though I'm not sure we are supposed too.

Overall: In the conventional world, the photo becomes our guide, showing us a point of view and a way of viewing - it pulls out aspects of the world, frames them and makes them explicit and special. You've done the opposite here - "Don't look at the world"; "avert you gaze"; "It's not worth your attention".... An 'anti-picture'. Bold and thought-provoking.

Couleurs d'automne
by keyz

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: I like that you've put this into the Free Study and how it makes me think about what I'm seeing. It looks like it's been made through the bottom of a glass bottle. The colours are really nice and their arrangement serves to give the brain enough information to work out what it is seeing.

Critical stuff: Even with the effect, there is only so much interest in this scene and as such I don't think it would hold a viewer's attention for too long.

Overall: Interesting, but is it interesting enough?

Going Up
by DistantColours

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: I really like your POV here and I like the stark lighting too; the way there is no hiding place, every detail made explicit. A macrocosm of the transparency of the ascension for the people on the glass staircase.

Critical stuff: The guy at the top looks distorted somehow, it makes the eye disbelieve the image a little.

Overall: An interesting and unusual shot.

Cruiserweight
by chromeydome

Comment:
Beautifully done.

Global Warming
by gsal

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 one hits you as soon as it comes up on the screen. Wonderful POVe, beautifully caught light, engaging subject and superb clarity. But most of all it's the balance... the way this is all portrait but how the environment, the background, the context isn't lost at all but actually 'presents' the subject, set her up, augments her. I'm not sure how you've achieved that - perhaps it is the synergy of colours.

Critical stuff: Nothing at all.

Overall: A flat-out great photo.

Now I will do nothing but listen
by sjul

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 is a beautifully made image. The light, smoke, near silhouette, the tall mic, the amazing stance of the figure, the suggestion of a band name in the background - all make for an image that is very involving indeed. The monochrome treatment works fantastically well too.

Critical stuff: There is a minor background artefact showing through the smoke between the mic stand and the wire - given how good this image is, it might have been worth a clone-out to avoid the eye being led here.

Overall: Really great work.

Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
by LN13

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 works really well. The even illumination and superb clarity elevates this image above a shot of a street scene - you've created something that didn't necessarily come across in the real scene. You've have found and distilled the sign elements and have brought them all together, like a single image montage (oxymoronic though that may be). I like how you've kept above the people space - inviting us to 'look up' and see what you created above our heads.

Critical stuff: Nothing at all.

Overall: Pretty inspired and bold to boot.

tiptoe
by sidpixel

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: I was always going to be drawn to this one - great POV, wonderful lighting, lovely tones, excellent textures, eclectic composition, fabulous shadow. What more could we want?

Critical stuff: Nothing at all.

Overall: I really like this.

collection
by tnun

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: As soon as this came up on my screen it communicated 'cleavage' - probably says more about me than your image. Once that image stuck though the small circular elements became some transparent gossamer... Certainly the shapes here hold interest and I commend your for in something so unconventional.

Critical stuff: This feels very minimal - in that it has minimal information with which we can build a picture. The near grey coloration does little to help out. I think perhaps a coloration other than grey may have worked a little better.

Overall: Interesting but not very accessible - like a private joke that we are not part of, I think the viewer is excluded a little here. I'm not sure that's ever a good thing.