Weightless
by LERtastic

Comment:
I'm leaving comments on shots I voted low, so here we go. Biggest problem here is not meeting the challenge in the least. This photo isn't shot from the perspective of the ground up, it's show from above looking down. That is a huge problem. Don't care for how the kid's upper body is cropped off. I think there might be some promise in a shot like this if shot from below, from a different angle that includes what is probably a really interesting expression on the kid's face, doesn't overwhelm the eye with the boring gray of the skatepark concrete, etc. Good effort.

Web of Life
by honikum

Comment:
Part of the challenge of showing somethign from the persective of the ground up is actually showing that the persepctive is from the ground up. I give benefit of the doubt that you were standing underneath this bug and shot upwards but the angles of the web strands, the fact that there is a fly on the right hanging 'down' - all these things really give the impression that this was pretty much shot straight on horizontally. Little more DOF would be nice to make out more of the web. Hard to make out anything on the spider itself other than the yellow blob on the back. Overall nothing to really interest the viewer here or move the eye around the shot. Biggest drawback though is the perspective thing. Good effort.

Ground up at sunset
by Shaurya

Comment:
I'm going through and leaving comments on photos I voted low on. This photo has some problems. First of all it appears to be over-sharpened which gives it a very harsh, artifical look. Composition wise there isn't really anything here that acts as the focal point of the shot. Cloud details are either neat-images beyond recognition or missing for some other reason, trees are backlit, the sun is barely visible, etc. Pretty colors are always nice but they can not make a photo interesting on their own. Here you've got blue and orange with very little transition between them, and the right side of the photo gets pretty heavy on the darkness with the trees and that big cloud. Good effort.

Break in the Clouds
by paullyjay

Comment:
This photo has some issues. The composition is not interesting. Some of the clouds on the right side are blown out. Backlighting the pole doesn't really work well here because it just ends up looking like a jumbled mess on top of a big black mark in the photo. I'm commenting on photos I voted low on as people cry for insight into why they got a low vote. So not being harsh, but there it is.

Hogwarts
by marbo

Comment:
I'm commenting on photos I voted low since people keep wishing they got comments on their low scoring shots. As IR eye-candy (I assume this is IR) always seems to do well, I'm pretty sure this shot will score decently but nontheless...

The colors in this photo do not work. Browns and blues don't have to be lifeless, but these are. There is gothic and nightmarish and there is boring. Unfortunately this photo finds itself in the latter category. Composition-wise, this shot is not from the perspective of the ground up. It is from the side of the building straight over. All those flying buttresses there beg to have you push your nose up against the side of that building and take a shot up the side or front. There is also a lot of interesting detail all over the building that would have been better served by shooting from an angle that shows more of the side. A lot of interesting stuff here sacrificed to blue trees and grass and a monolithic view of a building. Maybe it's what you were going for, I don't know. Overall not a bad shot, not to my liking, and borderline dnmc but good effort.

generation
by Tiberius

Comment:
There is dark and moody and then there is dark and unable to be seen, unfortunately this shot falls in the latter catergory. Looks like interesting subjects, and certainly some interesting detail on the old woman's face which is decently lit. Not sure what else to say, it is simply too dark to make other judgements about the photo. Possibly a crop with just the lady and the kid next to her could give a nice light/darkness age/youth contrast effect but with the kid's face blacked out it would be rough even then.

Focus on Natural Gas
by GeneralE

Comment:
I like it insofar as the blurry blue is appealing. I would have worked better if set against a 100% background above and below. As a person who has routinely gotten beaten down for submitting out of focus shots intentionally, I'm going to toss you an 8 just out of sympathy for how bad you are going to do.

Summoning the flames
by TUBORG

Comment:
On the one hand this is a really cool shot, straight out of a sword and sorcery tale. On the other hand it's very artifical looking. Nice work, I have no doubt it will rank very high.

cooking!
by Ecce_Signum

Comment:
Wow, the one 10 I gave in the challenge and only 17th place. Not a bad score, but really this was a great shot and should have ribboned. Again, great photo.

Bigger Fire
by kawesttex

Comment:
Looks like you are ready for a career with Reuters lol.