Meeting of Red and Green
by Gracious

Comment:
The color-push on this makes it look like it's growing mold. Kind of unattractive, and overprocessed-looking.

A Walk Until the End
by DavidLevin

Comment:
I don't see the complementary colors in this, so I have to grade you down a bit. There's definitely green, and I could push it to say yellow in the lawn, but I don't see any other real colors besides brown and silver. In this challenge I'm grading people who put the colors front and center higher than those who don't (simply to save my sanity and give me SOMETHING to grade on, to winnow the photos before considering Overall Quality).

ride on yellow and purple
by Gotchya

Comment:
The composition gives this shot a distant feel. Which may have been what you were going for, I don't know. :-> But the way it's so precisely square, and framed by the bracket, with the subject tiny, gives it a sort of frosty formality.

tomato
by jimmyn4

Comment:
The color balance could be tweaked to make it a little more red and less orange. :->

Pri, Mary and Colors
by Pep Ventosa

Comment:
Dangit. You did my idea, only far better. Good for you. :-> Crisp focus, nice lighting, good tight crop (to exclude, I presume, the really distracting background).

Performance
by Musicman

Comment:
The color feels incidental, not central, to this shot, so I have to grade down a bit to leave room at the top for people who made the theme the star. Also, it's incredibly dark and muddy-looking, except for one part of the bumper.

Balloons
by WILDBLUE

Comment:
The focus and crop and general lighting, etc, combine to make this look like you cut pieces out of construction paper and photographed them. I believe that you DID shoot balloons, but they could have been anything. :-> If you wanted the balloonyness to show, different choices would have helped; if you didn't care about the balloonyness, you could have saved yourself some trouble and just shot construction paper. :->

Berry Delicious
by ladpupmoe

Comment:
The lighting and saturation on this shot, combined with the very soft focus (or overprocessing, depending how you got the effect) on most of the strawberries, combines to make me think my glasses aren't on straight. The colors might have been better contrasted by a not-yellow plate, something to make it clear there IS a white or non-red value somewhere in the frame. Just thinking out loud. :-> Also, the composition's kind of ... all over the place. There's no one place the eyes are drawn or directed, no center of attention.

Primary Arizona
by tfarrell23

Comment:
This shot looks like it's trying to be avant-garde, but it's not really *about* anything and it's lit really weird so it doesn't end up achieving anything, really, IMHO. It's got diagonal composition, which can be good, but in this case looks like it was thrown in 'to make it more interesting.' That really only works when what you're photographing has a little interest of its own. Also, given that the flag is lit far darker than anything else in the frame, it almost looks like it's fallen down a little itself-shaped hole, a very odd effect (and probably not intended).

primary colors
by Gotchya

Comment:
Uhm. Why are the white bits yellow? It's very odd-looking. The first impression that jumps to my mind (besides 'he turned up the yellow in photoshop for no reason') is 'Wow, someone peed on the flag.' Probably not what you intended.