The Scream
by dsidwell

Comment:
Not that you need any more ribbons, but congrats for the blue to a brand new member of the SC and one of the finest photographers I've had the pleasure of taking pictures with.

Hello gorgeous
by PaulE

Comment:
This is one of those images that I would like to know the f/stop, shutter speed, camera and lens. That is because I would like to know if you could stop the lens down more to get both the bill and the fuzz in the back both in focus. In any rtegard, you chose to focus on the bill and that is the good decision although you might have wend back just a touch to try an get the eyes in perfect focus to.

Multnomah Falls Iced
by jtlee321

Comment:
I like Multnomah Falls... does not freeze over there often. Interesting textured, toned image.

Chromatic Sky
by vzegarski

Comment:
Excellent persepcticve and detail on Alcatraz. Sky looks a little overprocessed to my eye.

Coastal Darkness
by skasuba

Comment:
Bet you heard this before... horizon isn't level. ;) However, I got that remark on my submission and the horizon IS level. LOL!!!

Romance
by prozac

Comment:
Good capture and focus. Color and lighting superb. Good use of the rule of thirds.

Flight Into Fantasy
by hihosilver

Comment:
Keep photographing it and you may make this pier as famous as Haystack rock in Oregon. :)

Good timing for both the bird and and the placement of the sun behind the pier. Color is rich but not overdone. Nice clouds. The silhouette is solid and black. It is surrealistic to see the tall buildings in the distant background. Overall technical quality is good and level horizon.

E in high key
by Knightmoves

Comment:
The perspective and modest nature of this shot is very nice. The technical quality in sharpening is better than most entries in this challenge.

Hate to disapoint you, but this is not high key photography. The hallmark of high key is the luminosity light curve (or histogram) weighted to the right side of the graph on your main subject. This indicates it contains more light to white pixels than dark. Your main subject has more dark pixels than light.

Running in Circles
by dahved

Comment:
Nice image, good focus but looks more like the background is moving rather than the camera. Moving the camera, of course, is what motion panning is. Unfortunately, a still camera and moving background may be assumed by some voters.

Pats Fan
by Ringostarr

Comment:
This is a nice image showing a lot of motion. I'd like to know how you did it. True motion panning is steadily holding the camera while you twist your body to capture the main subject in focus while the background shows the natural motion that occurs during the exposure. This looks like the camera was moving with the cyclist and not panned. The hair is in good focus indicating a very short exposure time. The only way I can conceive of this happening is panning expertly with a long focal length lens from a great distance from the subject. If you did it that way then you did an incredible job!