π (Pi) light sources
by zirkovic

Comment:
Good work on a difficult capture, and an extraordinarily still moment. Good colours. A bit of a push to get into the challenge criteria, for which you lose a mark or two from me - I'm not saying it's outside it, but you're pushing the limits too hard for my taste. 6

Moonlight Isn't Enough
by artvet

Comment:
Inclusion of the little camera sign makes me smile. Like the composition, the rooting of the whole image in bottom left, spreading acros the frame. colouration is good, though I'm not sure about the extent of your processing - a personal preference, but then, a personal vote.

Sunny day
by asij

Comment:
Aguably, I suppose, each individual cloud provides some reflected light. But then, arguably, each individual molecule of the sun proved another light source. For myself, I would draw the line beyond the point you have chosen. Kind of pretty image, though I would have levelled it, and not placed the horizon so close to mid-frame: especially with a sky so interesting.

I Love You Too
by Konador

Comment:
Highly accomplished technically, though just seeming to lack an edge of clarity around the text - sharpening? see also divorce :-) - catches my eye. 6

Grangemouth Oil Refinery
by Tallbloke

Comment:
You Scots have all the locations :-) This seems very noisy (the smoke) - and I wonder if that is having an effect on what I'm seeing as a lack of fine detail in the pipework here. I'm not completely convinced about the silhouetted bushes/trees in foreground either: in fact, I rather think there isn't enough location here, just that pattern of lights and pipes, but without enough drama to grab me. were it my shot, I'd parhps have tried early evening (late evening at the moment, I suspect), to keep some sky and surrounding detail. 6

Filtered light from above
by DeepDive

Comment:
I don't know - perhaps there's some thinking that I'm missing, but I can't see this fitting the challenge here. Top shot, however. Love the pose, the bubbles. 4

Reflections
by anatom

Comment:
Why so many small photos this week? maybe it's just a freak of the order I'm seeing them in. If it should be a software problem - there are many free editors, many programs put out on the coverdiscs of computer and photography magazines ... you don't have to spend $600 on photoshop. If someone were to enter a 4x6 print into a print photography competition, would you expect it to get marked down?

This doesn't seem particularly sharp, even at this resolution. Compositionally, you've placed the bridge right across the centre of frame, at the expense of some of those reflections, and at the expense of a comfortable shape for the eye to follow through the frame: placed a little higher, it would, in conjunction with the river, create a curving sweep up and round to the right that would give a strong central graphic element to the image, and improve it for the viewer no end. 3

Multiple, more than 1
by Pixelprose

Comment:
Why so small!? It may be just that I've seen three or four shots in a row that haven't used the available size by a distance, but surely this would have been more effective at 640xsomething? There's nearly 200 pixels of height you haven't used here ... whyever not? It's tha more annoying, because this could be wonderful - really wonderful: the effect of the lampshade on the things own stand, and the effect of that little cross-light on the shade itself could have brought out more, perhaps. You could have found that great range of tonality that black and white can really do, but that only really shows in the details, and the detail disappear in the sizing. 6

Geneva Town House
by jjbeguin

Comment:
I don't believe you ever get 'lucky', actually, JJ.

Ed

Life without Green
by Falc

Comment:
Technically, near-perfect. The array of those small leaves gives good blance to the idea of a centred composition here, and allows this shot to work. The de-saturation of the leaves is a personal choice of course - but likewise, it's a personal bugbear for me (one of the things such techniques opens you up to in a peer-voted competition), and I cannot see a justification for it here, can't see what it adds, beyond a suggestion of shudder-value, of distaste. Makes it look like the thing is emerging from seware, rather than water. Great capture, for me let down by your processing. 6