Home, Sweet Home!
by NikonJeb

Comment:
or there's the rather cheap b/w with colour flag - a bit cliche, but sometimes that works...

Home, Sweet Home!
by NikonJeb

Comment:
ewll, it's obvious that mary and i think similarly! i ran this through alien skins cross process e100, but to get a similar result you could do a high pass layer, contrast, and hue/sat bumping up red. then i did a gradient layer for the vignette, and after flattening a gaussian blur layer. both the gradient and blur are masked to choose only the areas i wanted affected.

it's a great image, but i agree with the flatness comments. t just mneeds a little oomph to get it going.

5 Gold Ring...pulls!
by SteveJ

Comment:
a nice idea, and a good take on a cliche subject matter. the image is well focused and exposed. however, a tighter crop, and a straitened image would probably help. you need to make us see the ring pulls, all we see are 5 beer cans on a carpet. cropping right in to the tops of the tins would hav made the image much more dramatic and interesting.

Two Turtle Doves, And a Partridge in a Pear Tree
by BrianR

Comment:
this is a quite well composed image, but the poor focus really lets it down. the green of the eyes is dramatic, but would probably look better if the rest of the image was either desturated slightly, or somehow altered. vignetting ight also bring the gaze into the subjet more, as the light leaves are a bit distracting

Achilles
by Shiva Das

Comment:
wonderful image. i can't believe how many people didn't get this. o, no, i can. i guess they haven't looked after a child full time. i gave you a 9.

Pattern of the Unknown! ( ...I know it DNMC)
by kbhatia1967

Comment:
a very interesting image indeed. challenging and disturbing. yes, a pattern could certainly be seen here - the very basic pattern of the circles - jar, lid, head, body, ear. but, of course, there is the larger, more evanescent pattern of life and its mysteries - how could such a perfectly formed head not finish the job on the rest of the body.

i can only imagine you're getting some pretty strongly worded comments on this, as people do seem to overeact a bit sometimes to images that are 'edgy'. well done for sticking to your guns and submitting this. i know at least one person has called for it to be withdrawn.

i'd love to see how you would edit this in advanced editing. The basic does leave it a little - grey. i'd love to see some vignetting, gaussian blur on the background, etc etc. but, of course, then it would be mine, not yours... (i did a lot of work in the medical museum during my bfa)

a sad and touching image. i can't wait to see you take it further. and to find out who you are!

Red
by Tuckersmom

Comment:
ooo, lovely lovely lovely. can't you just tell i used to me an art teacher - the perceptive crits...

no, really, it is super. colour, composition, blur, the whole bit. yum.

Sydney Sails
by babyseal

Comment:
this could be a very good image, but the b/w conversion is a bit flat. a wider tonal range would serve this well - having a tue blacka nd a true white in the range, rather than just the mid-greys, wuold really make the pic pop.

a good composition. keep shooting!

Sparky
by w4jzz

Comment:
this is the start of a very nice shot. the focus is great, but the banister railings are quite distracting. a tight crop on the face would work very well here.

I'll Have a Blue Christmas Without You
by elizadeb

Comment:
a very nice shot indeed, well exposed and composed, with obvious thought given to the processing. however, the poor resolution, or jpeg artifacts, or over-sharpening has really brought the score down.