Rail Bridge
by TooCool

Comment:
That sky really hurts this image for me. Except for the positioning of the horizon, this a solid composition though, and the light and textures on the rails and ballast are well caught. Light on the treees and bushes is also good, which just makes the big white more of a pity. The fixes are quite easy - grad filters, or underexposing and bringing details back in post-pro, but for me it overwhelms this shot. 4

Around the Bend
by tfaust

Comment:
wonderful view - but oh for a more interesting moment of light! More shading on those rock faces would have added no end of drama to this shot - as it is, it's at best weakly illustrative. More light and shade would add spectacle, where this is really quite flat seeming.

In pure challenge terms, some foreground is needed to really emphasise dof, though of course in a sense of simple distance everything here is sharp. It's not bad work, but the light, the light ... 5

Time to rest.
by sixmacs

Comment:
Sensational sky, but that's about all. A feeling of tilt to the horizon, whether real or imagined, and at best an indistinctness of foreground doesn't help with the challenge thing - there may well be extraordinaryily deep dof, but you haven't really shown it. I would personally have tried to lighten some of the sky away from the sun - you already have the contrast with the brighter part, and the extreme top of frame seems to serve no useful purpose compositionally.

Harvest
by GolferDDS

Comment:
Yep. Meets challenge OK. Like the regularity of this - the composition suits the organisation of nature theme well, as does the cleanliness of the scene generally - nice trees, nice grass, nice tidy rolls of straw. Pretty good light, although the golden glow from shooting a bit later would take it completely into the bucolic, and perhaps add even more to the sentimental countryside feel. I can understand your cropping, with those clouds, but I nevertheless think you've included either too much or not enough sky for a really coherent balance of comsposition. 6

Two octaves, clear and sharp
by rhipster

Comment:
And, to extend your analogy, kind of flat, in an odd way. Clever work, though I have doubts about this being a useful subject for the challenge (which you've obviously met). We know the object has depth - but from experience, rather than from what you show. Good light, and tones, though some will find the reflections annoying on the bell - as much I would say because they look for problems rather than the constructive. Somehow, the bar-work on the stops is too confused to allow the simple graphical effect of perspective to function, I think, making the foreshortening much more drastic. A lot of stuff I like though. 7

Wrap Around Bay
by TommyMoe21

Comment:
I'm a fan of this compositional technique, although i would personally try to bring the foreground at least into centre frame, if possible, or refrain. Would like to have seen a more interesting moment of light chosen for those stones' sake - there must be enormous texture and variation there that would be amphasised by a different quality of light; this has that high contrast hallmark of midday-ish light, lacking subtlety. 5

Dream Clouds
by Neuferland

Comment:
Very little definition in the green areas - possibly because of exaggerated sharpening? It's become massively pixelated at the 1:1 resolution - there is no (or at least little) progression between pixels. Quite like the effect actually, though it seems in such contrast to the effect on the sky (I'm sure it's the same thing, but its impact in different areas is weird). Two problems for this challenge: the effect seems more about processing than about photography, and it doesn't strike as a deep dof image (though you aren't losing marks for the latter - I just think you will from others). I like the blankness of the image, of the composition, but for my enthusiasm would like to see more gentlness to the work on the greenery. 7

re-reading comment I haven't mentioned how striking this image is. But I have now.

Down In The Valley
by Sammie

Comment:
This has a real holiday snapshot feel to the exposure - fundamentally, and I don't mean in the sense of pure technique, this is over-exposed. Obviously all the detail is there, and I'm sure a histogram will tell you otherwise, but this is over. There's no sense of immediacy, no presence to it - all those colours and shapes have become so muted in the haze that definition has begun to go. It also suffers from the age old summer sunlight problem - really so unflattering on any landscape, so harsh. I see nice compositional ideas at work here however, which go some way to rescuing the shot ... but the blue-ing of everything, and the light ... 4

Listening for the Rain
by crabappl3

Comment:
Without that tree, nothing.

One Blue Window and an Airplane
by bobdaveant

Comment:
Not two? Like the idea of the shot, not completely happy with the execution - I think I would have tried to frame the plane further from the edge of image, to start with - it's really too close to the edge for happiness for me. I like the processing, though I guess many won't, although the very hard halo's from sharpening I could live without. 6