Be A Light Unto Yourself
by tpoc

Comment:
Another decent twise on the all black background with a small lighted object in the frame. This is an excellent way to convey a sense of darkness and a lot of photographers rightly chose to use the technique.

Focus seems overly soft and you might have considered blocking the light source from the composition. It is a good use of the rule of thirds.

Vision
by ace flyman

Comment:
Interesting title for an image of an ear. Many viewers willhave trouble relating this to the challenge topic but they will see the white specks on the black background around it and likely see those as distractions from the image. They should be removed.

Generally speaking the contrast and tonal range on this image is very good, but the couple small spots on the ear are overexposed. The strait line on the left side of the ear leaves open the question why the photographer chose to trim it that way. In any regard the image should be rotated counterclockwise to make it perfectly horizonatal.

Insanity... Darkness Within
by tmorninglory96

Comment:
You are to be commended for setting up and photographing it in such a way as to make it very believable. We see images all the time that do not come close with difficult subjects like this.

It is debatable whether or not the indentation in the wall to the right helps or hurts the composition. But the way it draws the eye from the main subject probably means it is a distraction that should be removed.

The angle, expression and flyaway hair all contribute positively to this composition. Hope that is not someone's girlfriend. :)

Message edited by author 2005-07-02 17:55:20.

Sith Lord
by stupidcat

Comment:
Very nice black tones. Good use of the rule of thirds and a good quality technical accomplishment. Some voters will find this trite but it is done quite well. Kudos.

OH NO ! My camera's broken :(
by 3DsArcher

Comment:
This is a lot prettier than a lot of images in this challenge taken with perfectly well functioning cameras. That probably has a sad meaning. :)

This image has an unexplainable attraction. It comes probably from the blue color (blue prominent images frequently score high at DPC) the exceptional clarity of the image and the fact that the lines are perfectly horizontal.

This may score unexpectedly high. There will be a lot of folks with fully functional cameras score lower than this, better than half.

Praying For The Light
by VISUALperception

Comment:
The idea is right but you need to give the viewer a reason for why your subject is pryaing. It has to be more than just for it to change from physical darkmnes to physical light. You leave to much to the imagination of the viewer. The grainy and soft focus approach does not give the viewer enough reason to maintain interest in the compostion. It is intersting that the shadow profile is the sharpest part of the image. It may have special meaning but a viewer could not tell what that might be.

Playtime...
by eljay128

Comment:
Unsure exactly what the message is here but this may be someone I'd like to spend time with this evening. :)

This has several technical flaws that will hold back it's score. The model's head, shoulder and chest is overexposed. Her skin color has unnatural yellowish skin as if the color balance is not right. It is unclear specifically what she is up to and the top of the little finger should not just tiouch the top of the frae the way it does. Make it either all in or all out but make concious composition decision one way or the other. The lighted area at the top of the frame above her leg is a distracting element in the image. The images small size does not help it score well.

Before the Campfire
by weirdsamurai

Comment:
A campfire is a good choice for a pleasant darkness concept. You are to be commended for thinking of it and presenting it in an appealing way. It might be even more effective if a second person were in the frame and they were engaged in campfire conversation.

For some, parking becomes more complicated.
by spreadcom

Comment:
This will put a dark damper on anyone's day. The strong backlighting adds a lot of interest. he uninteresting perspective from which this image was captured will hold down your score. It also looks like the horizon is not level If that were done on purpose exaggerating the angle more might have worked better. Otherwise, you should always make the horizon absolutely rock solid level.

coming out of the dark
by jnthn205

Comment:
Voters in a "darkness" challenge will see this as an attempt to shoehorn a flower image into it. You probably picked a flower in poor condition to support the darkness theme but it wil come across as just a bad flower picture.

The image itself seeems just a touch oversharpened with a general yellow hue above and beyond its natural color. Detail in the center is lost and the tabletop being visible in the composition does not add strong support for the image.