Day 1 - Penny for 'em
by talj

Comment:
I like the composition. You already pointed out the DOF. I look forward to the coins to come!

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by Gotaka

Comment:
Nice texture and DOF. I was just looking at a rose today at a luncheon and couldn't help thinking how nice it would be to shoot it.

Light As A Feather
by shamer

Comment:
Excellent clarity in the drop, beautiful colors, and the composition really leads my eyes around. It reminds me of this and this . Your entry is my favorite of these overall.

Log by Raish
by jdannels

Comment:
Great colors. THe clouds are really interesting here.

"Black is Checkmated" - Fill the Frame III
by elizadeb

Comment:
I love how you lost the black squares in the background. Whiterook should get to the front page one way or another. Good luck.

timeless picture
by whiterook

Comment:
The varied levels of misunderstanding here are fantastic and I think you may be the only one who really understood this challenge. Congratulations on a well earned and relatively nice looking brown.

Low Rider
by tryingtostayinfocus

Comment:

Originally posted by tryingtostayinfocus: I wasn't sure if the comments that were referring to it looking staged was because of him looking at me or because of the background and subject looking different.

Congratulations on the ribbon. I was one of the ones that pointed out the staged look and what caught my eye wasn't so much the subject looking at the camera or looking different from the background. It was a few things for me... The ground of the foreground doesn't seem to match the ground of the background; Blur lines suddenly stop on the ground of the foreground; There is a clean border like break between foreground and background; And the curve of the line between foreground and background doesn't seem to match the blur lines in the background.

I was actually shocked that more people didn't point these things out, but I'm just a beginner, so I'll defer to the experts around here. I suppose the foreground is a cross street/walk that is just suddenly buttery smooth and the subtle lines at the very bottom help to see that slightly. Too bad there wasn't just an irregularity or two in that foreground to show more clear motion (although it must be great to ride on).

It really is an effective shot either way. Given that it's unstaged, it's good enough to have fooled some of us into thinking it might be staged. It's almost too bad it's not staged, because then you could say you made a shot good enough to fool a whole bunch of fantastic photographers.

Thanks for the fun misadventure in photo sleuthing.

Kitchen
by Lonz

Comment:
Congratulations! You have the third most under rated photo of the challenge. That deserves a special award don't you think? I would give 1st most under rated to holding what you cannot reach and 2nd to Ode to Harold, but hey, that's just my humble opinion.

Thanks for such a thought provoking entry.

Ode to Harold
by hyperfocal

Comment:
Congratulations! You have the #2 most under rated photo of the challenge. That deserves a special award don't you think? I would give 1st most under rated to holding what you cannot reach and 3rd to Kitchen, but hey, that's just my humble opinion.

Thanks for such a thought provoking entry.

holding what you cannot reach
by posthumous

Comment:
Congratulations! You have the #1 most under rated photo of the challenge. That deserves a special award don't you think? I would give 2nd most under rated to Ode to Harold and 3rd to Kitchen, but hey, that's just my humble opinion.

Thanks for such a thought provoking entry.