Going to the Harbor
by Tom

Comment:
r u 300 years old? :-)

the Great Outdoors
by mpeters

Comment:
congrats for the blue..definetily the best in show!!!...10

The Great Leap
by Charlene

Comment:
Too bad it was the same idea used by a few others. I am sure that has afected the score.
About possible improvements:
*better if one of the leather seats was not intersecting one of the poles.
*a bit shallower dof to isolate the main subject a bit more from the bg.
*duotone works fine but it eliminates the use of color to isolate main subject from bg, so some S/H adjustment could have been made to avoid the merging.
*a little tighter crop on top and left would have helped to get more detail at 640px dpc.

Message edited by author 2008-01-30 20:15:19.

Captivity
by BHuseman

Comment:
congratulations for this wonderful image Ben!! Il like the title and the duotone processing as well.
I think it had a good chance to ribbon in a regular free study.

Buy Me Some Peanuts and....
by Charlene

Comment:
Vey interesting image for a large print. But this kind of subject suffers too much at dpc resolution. Just a very few dpchallengers have the secret (in a safelock probably) on how to process this kind of image in order to preserve a fair amount of detail while eliminating noise color artifacts. I am not one of them though.

It looks like the NR filter has reduced the amount of detail a bit too much. I think a tighter crop at the top would have helped in the overall balance, but the main problem here is the limitation of dpc resolutuion.

Exposure is very good, I like how the unavoidable blown out lights are not pure whites. Exposure of the crowds under shadow looks abot 1/3 f stop too low, or maybe there were just not any people up there?. :-)

You are getting better and better all the time!!

sixes
by whiterook

Comment:
wtg rook!!

Stare
by lovethelight

Comment:
what an extraorodinary pp work!!
please teach me how to process the eyes like that.
Congratulations!!!!

The Wise Carpenter
by senor_kasper

Comment:
Congratulations brother for this fantastic portrait and its excellent finish in such a difficult challenge!!

Bank's Greed, Farmer's Demise
by Charlene

Comment:
Interesting subject for the challenge.
Shadows and highlights adjustment in PS would have helped to bring up some detail from the dark parts of the buildings while reducing the light on the bright parts.

The Guards of Windsor
by farago

Comment:
great photo!!
too bad it looks a bit snapish