It's a rough game
by KHolt

Comment:
I'm no fan of this composition. Fror all the evident exertion, it holds little drama for me, the arms and shirts become confused to the left of frame, the tonality and processing don't differentiate the players from their background well enough.

Tranquillity
by gisli

Comment:
Has a certain surrealism - almost like an invented landscape. Once noticed, the tiny bit of land bottom right is an annoyance for me, and leads me to think that a crop from the bottom mightn't have been a bad thing overall, and might also have balanced the composition a little more solidly. Excellent tones from a basic challenge.

Seattle
by Kali

Comment:
Fun, although I think you've crowded the top of frame just a touch too much. I'm not sure that the separation of the leftmost tower has helped you at all - the shot would be simpler, and perhsp the better for it in dpc terms (at least), cropped to exclude it. Sure that's a Seattle landmark, but this image's impact is not about where it is, particularly. Now I mention that, I'm not sure oit wouldn't be stronger for being the more anonymous. Interesting stuff though, thanks.

State of Grace
by pawdrix

Comment:
I like this: it has, thanks to your chosen toning, an almost underwater quality to it. The excessive distortion of the extreme wide-angle only adds to that effect. I'm not absolutely sure about the processing for this composition - I feel that I'd like to see it more grounded, to make more of the street level stuff. Obviously, the basic rules probably forbid that ;-)

Ascend
by JPR

Comment:
Marvellous drama - just too much detail missing? that heavy selenium tone works well for it though.

The Landing
by Kevin Waite

Comment:
Decent work - in fact, decent all round: tone, detail, focus. It perhaps lacks a sense of drama, that thing that would really make it stand out in this enormous crowd.

WAITING FOR NIGHT
by dolikemagoo

Comment:
So difficult, even without the restrictions of basic editing, to control both the sky and the ground exposure. I don't think you quite succeed here: too much lost control in the clouds, and not enough graduation of tone in the observatory. The shadow/highlights filter can be hugely effective here, though the results are often a touch unrealistic. Obviously, the most effective approach would be an ND grad filter when shooting. There's a certain sense of quietness and mood to the shot though, which I appreciate.

Green Bug Blue Background
by hare

Comment:
Yellow eye, red bits around the wings ;-)

Mother and Child
by balancedfox

Comment:
It's unusual, I think, to see this very often done composition without visible fingernails on the child's hand. The reason, I think, is that the fragility of the smallness is more emphasised by the nails, which seem even more impossibly small than the fingers themselves. But this is a decent attempt - I think the composition could be more orthodox, and stronger - it is, after all, a very orthodox image - perhaps by having the adult hand enter frame from a less straight up and down direction. Your toning is good though, but I feel you'll suffer for having presented a well known idea without quite enough pop to it.

Eye see U
by deme314

Comment:
To me this seems too close to a possible real colour-space to be properly considered a duotone - surely that wall and that forehead aren't shades of the same colour? And indeed, whether or no they are, the point is perhaps that they don't appear to be. A fairly interesting image though - perhaps a touch more visible an eye might really have pinged the impact? - certainly good enough to have been properly toned.