Southeast of Nye
by BadPigg

Comment:
This photo just shouts black and white or sepia to me. That way the focus would be on the shapes and textures of the land rather than the colors. I also don't care for the square format. It just doesn't work for me. 6

Abandoned to the Cold Prairie
by jimmsp

Comment:
This is a nice photo. However I don't like where the horizon line is. I would I preferred to see it either higher to see more of the grass which I think would work better here or lower to show more of the sky if the clowds were more interesting.
6

Zenith
by KarenB

Comment:
This is a very nice composition. The values and colors are very good and it is technically very clean and sharp. 8

Olympic Peninsula
by jimmythefish

Comment:
I know this mountain range very well. I've taken numerous photos of it. The colors, shapes and contrast in their simplicity make this a stunning shot. A great combination of abstract and landscape. It may be slightly oversharpened but not too bad. It is very lovely. 9

He likes it
by lumbus

Comment:
The colors are nice but I find this scene fairly ordinary. I like the deer but I am distracted by darkness of the group of trees on the left. They interfere with the openess that would have appealed to me. It is also off balance with the deer on the same side. Maybe if you would have moved quickly to left to frame the deer on the right side and a smaller bit of the dark trees on the left to frame the scenery in the background. 5

A Trip to the Coast
by smellyfish1002

Comment:
This is a lovely photo. At first I felt it was a little dark but I found that darkness to be appropriate and added greatly to the overall mood. There is power and drama in the lighting and composition and it works quite well as a black and white. There is strong sense of motion in the grass I even thought I saw it move once. Probably just too much coffee for me. I'm not quite sold on the cropping, though. Maybe only because I am so used to a more conventional crop. It seems like ther might be a little more sky than necessary. It's one of those images that demands to be seen large so the viewer can enjoy all of the interesting details in the grass and the lighthouse. Without seeing the original scene or the original photo I am hardpressed to find anything significant to change except for maybe the proportion of the crop and that is iffy. It appears to be very clean and sharp. It clearly nails the challenge theme. I also like the simple border. If all borders were handled this way I would be more in favor of them. Ok, I found one thing to nitpick. That one piece of grass that is standing straight up should be leaning too :- ) Awesome photo. Congratulations.

Tim Jensen

Why you.....!!!! Bite me, will you?
by mcrael

Comment:
After I saw the image and what camera you used my question is why Automatic mode? It is a pretty fun picture as it is and I am sure you are enjoying it. I know these kinds of images are extremely tough. I've taken quite a few myself of my dog playing with my sister's dog. My preference is normally to not use the burst mode because I usually miss something good in the 7 or 8 seconds the camera takes to process the images. I'm finding that I am having better success by manually focussing at a distance that is close enough to keep the dogs tight in the frame, setting the camera to shutter priority at a very fast speed like from 1/250 to 1/500 while trying to keep the aperture somewhere towards a small size to try to maintain some DOF to work with, and then running around like crazy staying as low to the ground as I can trying to capture one quick shot at a time. As long as I stay at a consistent distance from the dogs the focus should be good and I should be able to take quick photos. It does take lots of practice and there certainly is nothing wrong with using the burst mode. It looks like you needed to crop the photo quite a bit to fill the frame. This is evidenced by the level of softness as well the pronounced haloeing around the darker edges. I think it captures a sense of motion very well and I don't think that all images need to have motion blur to show motion. While I often prefer a real tight crop to my images, in this photo I prefer to see the background because it is interesting as well and serves to place the dogs in their environment. It's part of the story. However I dont like how the yellow dog is crowding the right edge, there needs to be more room on that edge. It can also use a little more punch by increasing the black level slightly more and increasing the saturation a little bit. While it can use some improvement technically it is still a nice photo that is a pleasure to look at. Good job.

Tim Jensen

Bubbles
by JamieWillmott

Comment:
I thought this was a pretty cool photo and I gave you an 8 on it. I'm getting more and more into abstract photos and I can appreciate the simplicity and interesting details of this photo. I feel it can use some improvement, however. It looks like it wasn't real sharp to begin with and you needed to sharpen it up and it shows, unfortunately. I think increasing the constrast would have helped. By deepening the back ground color with the Levels tool the photo would have some more 'snap' to it. There is also some funny, fuzzy shapes among the bubbles that are distracting. I don't know if they could have been prevented or not. For the most part it is a fine photo that meets the theme but with some room for improvement. Keep up the good work.

Tim Jensen

Absolute Zero
by Konador

Comment:
I have to hand it to you, you certainly come up with some of the most creative photos. This one is very cool, it sends shivers up my spine, I was frozen in amazement! Ok, enough with the puns : ) Actually I like it quite a bit but I must admit I think it needs a certain something else like over exposure to really brighten things up. If you had blown out the highlights a bit I think it would have added to the mysteriousness of this photo and really made it stand out in an abstract way. I think the composition is very good. It's much like going down into an ice cave. Of course it really is, on a smaller scale. It's that illusion of being a much larger space that really adds to this photo. With the colors you nailed the theme and technically it is very sharp but not overprocessed. Great job Konador.

T

INK
by marbo

Comment:
This is one photos that definitely looks better when it is enlarged. I am a little curious about the shadow. Did you use a separate flash or do you rotate your camera to the right instead of the left? Something about the shadow, maybe the location of it, bothers me a little. It's fairly minor though. For me it is the vibrant blue and the sparkles that make this photo stand out. I would have cropped even tighter and focussed more on the lines of the swirls. Technically it is very clear and sharp without any flaws. The creative factor is very high. It's not everyday that you see a photo of ink in this fashion. Nice job.

Tim Jensen