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by neophyte

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: I like the aspect ratio, it gives the hotdog stand an upright feel and we feel close to it. I also like the angle at which you have captured your subject. I think the black and white works well, though I feel you could have made it a little edgier with higher contrast and added grain.

Critical stuff: Although the composition demonstrates a lot of care (I think you may have even corrected for perspective) the cropped umbrella stands out a little. Above, I said this could be edgier - the sauce vat (or what ever you call it) seems to cry out for a bit of added emphasis; I'm not sure what editing tools you have access to but a tonal contrast brush or something similar over that area might have been really effective. As I said above, I might have tried some grain, some harsher contrast and perhaps a small vignette - however, you may not have the editing tools, nor might that sort of image be to your taste. When I do it, I do get pulled up for 'noise'.

Overall: An effective image but one where I think that the subject and the edit aren't as complementary as they might be.

Gloucester Road
by Anthony_D_Archer

Comment:
Congrats on the red - very well executed image. I liked this one in voting.

Via del Corso
by JimiRose

Comment:
So pleased to see this get the Blue Jimi - really pleased it stayed above 8 too. It really is an 8+ image. great stuff!

Two Black Dogs
by james_so

Comment:
I really like this - makes for a really effective abstraction, like a distillation of the scene.

Liquid
by Retroesque

Comment:
This is quite brilliant - I love the coloration.

Sunk
by RKT

Comment:
Very interesting - can't quite work out how you did this, there looks to be more than one blurry technique going on.

I do like it though!

facets
by krnodil

Comment:
Very effective - great use of technique to achieve a vision.

Evening Tea
by luvmyaussie

Comment:
Lovely! What aperture ring did you use?

Lioness
by andrewt

Comment:
91st?? Very surprised, deserved much better.

Central Red Devils
by Dirt_Diver

Comment:
This is superbly done.