Freckle Face
by jenesis

Comment:
You must be proud of this shot. It is a wonderful portrait that is technically spot on. Your overall score will be dependent upon how the voters relate to it and how they think it meets the challenge and not with anything related to its photographic shortcomings. Hope this scores well for you because it deserves it.

Elbow Room
by ShaneBlake

Comment:
The texture of the shadow on the arm in comparison to the shirt does give a unique focal point to this image. The technicals are all there, good focus, compositon, and lighting. Glad to posted this one for us to look at.

The Blues Brother Within
by samtrundle

Comment:
This is a great portrait and I love the Blues Brothers but the face ends up being the focal point of the image for me and doesn't really convey the black and white theme of the challenge. I did under-rate this when I voted and I'm glad I came back to comment so I can give it a bump.

Wedged
by jgm5015

Comment:
Yes you have a black and white object and meet the minimum requirement for the challenge. The placement of the 8 ball doesn't really make sense and the clutter in the background won't help the score of this image.

crayons de fille
by xvix

Comment:
This image has a black crayon and a white crayon but they are not featured. The mixture of colored crayons makes for a weak connection to the challenge topic.

Frank the Cat
by freakin_hilarious

Comment:
I'm sure I'm not the first to tell you, a little too much black and not enough white. Hard to tell what is in the picture.

Maybelline
by CalliopeKel

Comment:
Those eyes really drew me to this photo. I would give this image a square crop and move the eyes to the rule of thirds. This would remove the plant at the right and the negative space at the bottom, while giving the eyes the stage they demand. Stunning post processing.

Flowers at Niagara
by jwillerton

Comment:
I agree with biteme, cropping the white area on the right would help this image IMHO. You might also want to remove some of the sky at the top to reduce the negative space. As is, the primary flower is almost center on the horizontal. Reducing the sky will move it to the top third on the vertical and help the composition.

Braking Lines
by Gaby_G

Comment:
I didn't vote in the Lines II challenge because it was the first challenge I entered and I didn't want to look at my competition critically. I like the b&w conversion of this photo and the overall composition. I agree that this did not deserve the 1s & 2s you received but most entries don't. You might want to consider rotating this image 180 degrees to see if the change in perspective helps the image. As is, it looks like the paper is being pressed against the wall instead of grabbed off a table.

Looking down re-loaded.
by Gaby_G

Comment:
Although you aren't allowed to do the cloning you did here for a basic challenge, if you would have composed the shot this way originally, I would have given you a 5 or 6 instead of the 4 I gave your challenge photo. Nice PP on this image. I don't think it is over sharpened either.

Message edited by author 2006-07-27 14:23:55.