Day 2
by renegade1966

Comment:
I'm working on my b&w skills, too, Todd, it's what I used to shoot in film (almost exclusively unless I was doing snapshots), but I just can't get it right in digital. Anytime I try, I'm just not happy with the results. For this, I would have tried to pick up a bit more detail of the bricks; unless you look really closely, you almost can't see the lines (that may be a function of resizing, I haven't been doing this seriously in digital to know for sure), but I'm guessing the color version shows these quite clearly. This is one of my frustrations in going from color to b&w with desat (by channel mixer or another method). Anyway, that's one thing I may have tried. I like the shot, by the way!

Day 2 - The Road To Nowhere
by xXxscarletxXx

Comment:
I love that you kept the road on the right side of the frame and avoided the temptation to center it in the frame. That very well may have worked, but most people (especially on DPC, it seems, in my short experience) center roads, and this gives a different perspective that I like a lot (sort of, standing by the road, rather than driving or walking on it).

Day 1: Shot a young buck with my Canon
by PhotoDave

Comment:
Excellent shot, nice composition (did you crop or just take it the way you got it?).

Day 1 - Downtown San Antonio
by SandyP

Comment:
Nice image; I like high angles of cities to get the "whole picture" (puts a city, even a large one, more in context for me). I like the lighting on the building, too, works well and adds a bit of color.

1-30.jpg
by agrimace

Comment:
Nice b&w toned image -- I like toning, a bit too much, perhaps ;) but here it works well. I'm a bit distracted by the low branch in the foreground top that cuts into the top part of the house; lowering the angle just a tad may have put this above the house and pointed the viewer to the house. Just a thought!

Guide copy.jpg
by rider64

Comment:
I think this is a good attempt to convey something about the plant closing, and the dismal way it must feel to be in that area; I've had large plants (not auto) close near where I lived, and driving by them was like driving by a sad ghost town, and this was worse on dreary days; I get that dark feeling from your photo, though I think the composition comments (moving the sign from center) would probably help overall.

My House Day 1
by emily212

Comment:
Excellent shot, makes me jealous (we're feeling global warming here, no real snow this winter at all); don't have anything to add to what those below have, so I won't even try!

Day 1--The Morning Paper
by Elaine

Comment:
Snow *sigh* No snow here to speak of this year; how sad. Nice image, and I like the feel, though I might have liked a bit more texture to the snow.

Day-1 The Famous Dayton Courthouse
by TCGuru

Comment:
I like this, and will leave the courthouse image comments to those below, which cover it well (I learned quite a bit); on the other part of the imgae, I would have liked a bit more of the sign (so I could properly see all the images) or a bit less (so I see no edges at all); the first might have been impractical due to the background (too bright), and maybe without any edges it would look out of context. Just an idea to try.

Side House
by jdannels

Comment:
Catching up here (I hope), I really like this shot, very surreal effect, and very effective, and I like the shadow of the unseen tree to the left, very nice.