Still single!
by Parentx

Comment:
Nice effort. Not sure about the focus on the pot rather than the brush, and the lighting is a touch harsh. Looking at the focal depth you have here, I'd guess it would have been possible to get both the brush AND the pot cleanly focussed: after all, it's the combination of the two that tells the story. Imaginitive work though, and makes a great change from some of the more obvious shots.

Pavement loneliness
by Jeanseb

Comment:
Nice shot. I'd have corrrected the slight tilt, but otherwise it's fine. Like the pull of subject to and from the bright lightss and the lonely figure. One of few shots so far that nails this challenge.

Dairy Queen
by crabappl3

Comment:
For those intersted, Dr Harold Edgerton, known simply as 'Doc' to his students at MIT, was the pioneer of this trick - indeed his 'Milk Drop Coronet' is perhaps his most famous image, and prints of it sell for phenomenal sums. This is perhaps better than his shot - but then the poor guy was shooting in the 1940's (I think), with his own new invention, the strobe flash: we now, of course, have the good fortune to be able to see our shots straight away, and select the best. Worth checking out his work, if you get the chance.

Ed

Alone in the wood
by joannadiva

Comment:
Compositionally nice - good and effective use of leading lines, and tonally interesting. It isn't giving me an impression of loneliness, or even solitude somehow - possibly the simple awareness of the presence of a photographer :-)

Kevin!!!!!!!
by fisheye

Comment:
I don't think I understand your point, I'm afraid. I quite like the blur of the figure moving across the street, especially as all the other figures are so static, but that seems incidental to the shot, which appears just to be an architectural night shot. And then the photo's title just throws me completely. Feel free to PM me and explain, but don't expect any icrease in score :-)

All Alone in the Green Grass of Hope
by bsalu

Comment:
DOF seems a touch too shallow here - fromt and back of the fungus are drifting out of focus without concentrating the eye on any particular feature that jumps out to me, especially with some of the grasses being within that plane. Odd composition too - perhaps a compromise between a broad context and a very close concentration on the subject.

Fading Memory of Summer
by OneSweetSin

Comment:
Tonally beautiful, though I'm not convinced by your placing of the focal plane here - and I'm always distracted by this desaturation trick, which I have a personal loathing for. To genuinely communicate a feeling of solitude or loneliness ... I think you need a wider view, more context for the flower.

The Edge of Storm
by DiamondPete

Comment:
Whilst this IS a beautiful moment you've captured, I really think I'd like to see it darker overall - a good two stops shoter exposure, I think - to emphasise the blackness of clouds, and to lessen the blow-out area: it doesn't really look like an approaching storm, just an approaching bunch of clouds. Good work though, and the light on the fields and trees is excellently caught.

Not Your Normal Oilfield Roughneck
by Simplicity

Comment:
Pretty neat, though not exactly subtle lighting. You've over-done the sharpening considerably, in my book - all those jagged lines - though I can appreciate what drove you to it. Not bad stuff though.

sweet dreams, my pretty-pretty
by ursula

Comment:
I once had a huge appreciation for very pure staurated colours, like the blue in this photo, Ursula; but i've kind of given myself an ongoing task to investigate duotone/b&w photography, and so my mind is perhaps more focussed on contrat and formmal content than is reasonable to jusge a photo. All of which is mentioned because I think this would have made a wonderful black and white image: a marvellous range and variety of contrast, from the immediate black vs. white of moments in the statue, to the gentle graduation of the reflected sky and the clouds.

I like the parallel of the blown-out steel in bot the window frames and the statue, and the contrat of the fluid shapes of the art and the rigid regulated structure of the window franes. I'm kind of surprised to see it score so low ... though i think I have an idea why.

The reflected building: especially ggiven tha challenge topic. If the were no reflected structure, i think it would hav score considerably higher - I think that building adds an element of everyday reality that takes away from any feeling of the unusual, the non-humdrum, that's hurt this image in terms of the challenge. Likewise if you'd included more of that building, the efffect would have been different - some kind of comment on office life, or city life, set against the evident freedom of that sculpture. With just the qurter-view of it present, I think the pic falls between two stools a little, and I think that hurt your score.

Still, an intersting image, and a pleasure to think and to write about for fifteen minutes.

Ed