Illegal Enigma
by Wildcard

Comment:
I prefer this version actually. Damn rules... :)
They're both very good though!
I think I prefer the crop of this one - your challenge one is almost too intimate.

Urban Predator
by maxaz1

Comment:
Oh cool! Nice composition (the curvy branch thing is very cool), and I love the colour of the sky. However, it appears that the birdie had an unfortunate clash with a noise reduction program. Since in this case you're not limited by basic editing, you can solve it by using two different layers. The sky probably did need noise reduction to the extent you did it, but the bird and the branch didn't - just create a copy layer, apply noise reduction, then get rid of the bits that you didn't want Neat Imaged using a reduced opacity eraser.

Otherwise it's a good picture, there seems to be a decent amount of detail present, and I love that faraway look on the bird's face. Just fix the post-processing and it'll be perfect.

Cyrus2.jpg
by snaffles

Comment:
There you go :) Sorry, it was a 5 minute job, and as a result Cyrus looks a bit, erm, diseased...

Feedbackwise: I'd say get even happier with PS and maybe get rid of the red thing at the front (although arguably it might be an interesting foreground).

Nice dynamic picture, I love the sense of action you get from it. Slightly tilted, but I think that works oddly well - it increases the sense of the horses moving forwards. The background is cool - the white tree outlines work really well in amongst the greenery.

Shame it's not sharper. But looking at the cameras you use, I can sympathise. My camera is very similar to your Canon, and it frequently ends up with a soft focus that DPC hates. Photoshop is the answer, the truth and the light?

balcony
by meyers

Comment:
What a beautiful picture :)

She looks so happy. And the colours are just gorgeous - there's the nice blue/green and purples, there's also the nice golden/brown walls and flowerpots. Interesting and really aesthetically pleasing.

The composition is great - with the subject centered, but so many different things off centre that it still looks interesting. And the archways form a really nice frame.

So yeah, very pretty :) Must be a nice thing to keep as a memory.

street outtake
by posthumous

Comment:
Hmm... I definitely prefer the one you actually entered in the challenge.

Not entirely certain what the point of this photo was... I like the right hand side - the shape of the snow and the way they're lined up manages to make the cars look quite aggressive and ready to race. I suppose the bent sign goes with that. The person just seems to be in the way though. There's no obvious readable expression, I can't think of a symbolic explanation, it just looks like he happened to be in the wrong place when you were taking the picture. If he was smaller and further away, he might add to the picture, but atm he's just disrupting it. The B&W conversion works well enough, although a casual viewer might get the impression that it's there in order to make a bad photo look a bit more artsy, thus turning it into an artsy bad photo.

But do let me know if I'm wrong... :)

Storm Fence
by noraneko

Comment:
Wow, this is really cool! All those parallel lines in the fence make a wonderful pattern, the shadows are really interesting, and the wavy shape of the top of the fence really does make it seem turbulent and stormy. Wonderful level of detail too.

The clouds lined up just right too - I love the light third in the middle and the dark third above it. Everything's quite regular but deviates enough to make the image more interesting and dramatic.

I'd like to tell you how to improve it, but I think it works really well as it is. Introducing a subject or foreground interest would be common suggestions, but I actually really like the impact of the simple geometry in this picture. Maybe a small colourful helium baloon flying past in the sky would have been cool, but I suppose you can't have everything :)

Very cool image, well done.

Moon
by raish

Comment:
Shame you didn't get more detail. Looks sort of oversharpened and pixelated. But is at the same time better than any moon picture I've ever managed to get.

I'm not too keen on the centered composition, I'd prefer it if it was cropped more tightly and the moon was more in the lower right corner. Particularly since there's the cute little star in the top left corner - it'd be nice to see the star in one corner and the moon in the opposite one.

Ficus
by cuspie

Comment:
Ooh, that's cool. Very nice detail. I really like the light in this - the little leaves at the front shine really nicely, and the big one at the back seems to be giving out rainbow colours :)

The thing I'm not too keen on is the composition. You can get away with cutting off the top right of the big leaf, but it seems a shame to cut off the top left bit and the tip of the little leaf. At the same time, I'm not sure the empty space at the right is really doing much. So if you just moved the camera slightly to the left and up, it would be perfect.

desertsunset1.jpg
by liltritter

Comment:
Ooh, very pretty! Lovely capture, with the sun just setting behind the hill.

Improvement suggestions:
At the moment, the composition looks a bit confusing - it's almost centered, but not quite. I don't think a centered composition would work too well, because the silhouettes are asymmetrical. Instead I'd be tempted to crop off some of the left side of the picture, and maybe a bit of the top of the sky as well, to make this into a proper off-centre subject composition.
Also, the top part of the sky is pretty, but a bit subdued compared to the rest of the image. If you want the image to really jump out towards people, you could do a hue/sat adjustment and just increase the saturation of yellow colour. It makes the image ridiculously warm, but also really makes it pop out towards people.

n 27(07) Étude d'un femme vue en buste, inachevé
by silverfoxx

Comment:
Congratulations! Such an interesting image!