On Air
by pepitoid

Comment:
Good image. Shame about the lins on screen, especially with it runniong through your silhouette. Refresh line? It might have been fun to have more apparent interaction between the screen character and the cameraman, which would have leant this an air of the really confusing ... but it remains i think the most interesting image I've seen in this challenge.

Emily
by MAK

Comment:
Fabulous detailing and light on a rather uninteresting subject (to me - presumably not to you, else why photograph it?). I'd have done something to smooth the background, if I could (but I'd have never taken this shot!)

The One Lime
by costingg

Comment:
You see, I can understand the direction, but I can't see this as high-contrast photography. Sure, there's a big black background, but the tonal range of your actual subject is very limited indeed, is it not? You've also gained white line in your editing (I presume), and only used 1/3 of the availble file size, and two-thirds of the available width. the images here are small enough already. there's a tutorial about re-sizing images for the challenges ... might I suggest that to you, with all respect?

sunset on an industry
by alpharich

Comment:
Nice graduation of tones through the receding countryside, although that forms but a small part of this image. The scattering of birds is messy and indistinct, certainly at the resolution I use (and many others), and perhaps there just isn't enough industrial stuff to make your point. I wonder if a crop in from the right, placing the chimneys more orthodoxly, and allowing you that little bit extra iamge size, relatively, might have worked better for here. I could appreciate that this might make a fine large print - but that's rarely of effect on DPC.

Rush
by escapetooz

Comment:
High Contrast often works for action shots, making as it does the form of the situation stand above the simple emotion. I wonder, however, if the curve of thrown-up water isn't more important to this image than the actual figure - and it's that curve that you've chosen to discard in favour of a fairly ordinary body-shape. Good stop action, but perhaps not the most visually arresting moment.

Sunrise Terrace
by carlo

Comment:
Like the observaqtion of those lines, and the capture of them - and you're right to include the watering can, as it gives reference to it all. The background through the fence probably lets it down - just brings it back to the humdrum too much, amkes the location too obvious, the composition too busy: such rhythmical compositions are often let down by the intrusion of the humdrum.

Lady Liberty
by typologic

Comment:
High Contrast for sure. And you had either the luck or the patience to wait for good clouds, which makes such a difference. Sense of detail is a little obscured - which could be something like neatImage, or simple file size requirements, and there's nothing to be done in Basic so one can't really vote down on that. My only regret is that the people aren't just a touch more distinct, to properly show the scale - I doubt many people will see them.

Pharaoh's Wrath
by Blackbox

Comment:
I love the really stupipd comments some people leave - 'oof' indeed. Perhaps she means the impact was so intense she felt winded, that this shot so deeply affected it her it took her breath away, only too literally. Somehow I think not.

Abstract photography setttles generally into two camps - the pretty, which i think we can happily dismiss, and that that suggests some relation to our natural world, the world as percieved by us everyday. taht world of course includes the images, be they film, television or photographic which we are also presented with. Thus the function of this image: if the relationship to the great pyramid was not so clear, your title has nicely thumped that home.

The 'abstract' of course, takes us out of the field of being able to critique the image from any accepted technical standpoint - the recognised technicalities don't hold, and so one one can only comment on the srtistic vision as exhibited - yours, here, is evidently one of steel, of the colder hues and decaying shades of metal and of rust. There is a nice parallel to be drawn there, with the decadent decline of the Egyptian civilisation (when was any civilisation's decline not decadent?), but perhaps that would take us further still away from the proper realm of the abstract.

Masquerade
by RolandB

Comment:
As a point of order, in my experience of masques and carnivale and the like, glasses and masks are hardly unrelated. Whatever; good detailing and light on the mask - and it's a beautiful object too - but your inclusion of the glass seems entirely arbitrary: it's appears oriented differently, weakly placed compositionally - to the extent that one might believe, if told, that it was cropped out of a different photograph; and that was the challenge, I think - to make photographic sense out of the combination. I don't really think you've succeeded - it needs the feeling that these two unrelated objects are at least in the same light space, or something - but I like the mask very much.

September
by Milacroft

Comment:
I like this; I suspect (hope I'm wrong) you'll get a bunch of comments about lack of contrast, but it's just fine as is - has a strong sense of that developing grey of early autumn. Good exposure.