30 tries
by saloonstudios

Comment:
The sharpening halo around this image is quite strong - a smaller radius of USM would work wonders, I should think; though of course it might just be a camera setting. It's a reasonably interesting silhouette - and certainly catches the right moment compositionally. I think I'd have preferred a perfect silhouette, rather than the very dark sense of the guy's face and clothes there is here.

Ladybug
by Mal37

Comment:
This is a fine shot, and finely executed too, in both shooting and processing. Beautiful? Well, yes, in her way - and certainly in your revelation of detail. I wonder if she won't prove to 'real' for most folks - not red enough, not the easy fantasy of what the bug should be. I hope it does well, though - certainly scores well from me.

Red Rose
by AlanBes

Comment:
With such an obvious subject, you put yourself in a position of having to produce an absolutely exceptional photograph to score well, I would think. The immediate problems are a lack of detail - that fine edge of a sense of texture, caused by what looks like poor compression artefacts. I like the idea of softening the image beyond the red rose, but that only draws attention to the detail thing there. The composition is good - nice to fill the frame, and the colour range is effective; but I fear this just isn't going to stand out in the mix.

This Ole House
by kevrobertson

Comment:
Cracked oil's a godsend for this challenge, no?

The Closet
by dustin03

Comment:
Beautifully done. I have an intense feeling of having seen this before. There's really not much to criticise at all, I'm sure you've absolutely achieved your imagined shot - other than that I think you might have made more play of the shadow areas - it pays, i think, not to forget the range of points at which your audience set 'black' on their screens.

First Light
by pgatt

Comment:
Interesting stuff. I wonder if you couldn't successfully have pushed the composition into a more blatantly graphic shot? Placing the horizon a touch higher up frame, and including a touch more of the foreground shore, and the conjunction of fore- and back-ground would have added a strong pair of lines to the shot, making the silhouette stronger, and not really losing much of the impact of the blueness, I wouldn't imagine. find here, the foreground hat you have included pretty weak, not serving much effective purpose. It has strong potential, I think, however.

Kauai
by charliebaker

Comment:
The near-square composition works for this shot, I think. It's not a particularly dpc-type landscape, being only un-obviously processed, but it's nevertheless effective. It perhaps suffers a little from division of subject: is the tonality of the beach and the shallow water, or the mountain and the cloud, the primary point of your shot? That's not necessarily a bad thing, though it does make the shot a lot more complicated to view (again, not a bad thing), but in dpc terms I think you'll suffer for it - had you concentrated more solidly on one or the other, you'd score higher, I think. I'm not sure that I wouldn't personally prefer a more organised hierarchy of interest, either.

Sanctuary
by shabbychic

Comment:
Good exposure for the window; it's a shame, given the lack of restrictions on editing, that you couldn't have brought more of the interior of the church into light, so to speak. The high-light out.lines on the pews are effective, but it cries out for some more detail to make it more than just an image of painted glass, to my eye.

Kissed by the Evening Light
by gaurawa

Comment:
The title feels familiar - is this a reference to another shot here? I quite like the compromise you've made between the texture of the veil-thing and the face: your depth of field is effective.

Mesmerized
by mrsmaxsmart

Comment:
Nice evocation of mood - though I would have trie to bring out more depth of shading in the child's face, which has regressed a touch into a near-monochrome plane here.