Tone Dead
by NikonJeb

Comment:
OK, I'm going through the Free Study submissions, purposefully finding those images I think are shot with a less conventional eye - this is one of those images! Thanks for offering something that isn't just DPC friendly eye-candy (though of course there's nothing wrong with eye-candy). I'll be picking one of these images for my Mu (most underrated) award:

Positives: very nice abandoned scene which is well served by the tonal contrast / tone mapped look. I really like the muted colours too.

Critical stuff: I do wish there was a little more drama in the light - the image does come off a little flat looking.

Overall: A pretty effective image.

Going Down
by pete0121

Comment:
OK, I'm going through the Free Study submissions, purposefully finding those images I think are shot with a less conventional eye - this is one of those images! Thanks for offering something that isn't just DPC friendly eye-candy (though of course there's nothing wrong with eye-candy). I'll be picking one of these images for my Mu (most underrated) award:

Positives: it takes a really good image to carry this acid yellow colouration but you've pulled it off. I think this is a consequence of you using the it with the right subject. It would have been easy to go b&w here but I'm glad you didn't.

Critical stuff: Colour noise is almost always ugly and I think it does mar you image a little - not sure what you could do - I suspect noise reduction would take out some of the image's rawness (and some detail in the steps) and I can't see how a technique I use of selectively desaturating magenta and green could have been done without affecting your colouration. I do wish you'd given us a bit more space at the top - the clipping of the hand rails jars a bit.

Overall: I really like it.

Blowing In The Wind
by gsal

Comment:
Love this.

Disturbed
by RoeeRozen

Comment:
OK, I'm going through the Free Study submissions, purposefully finding those images I think are shot with a less conventional eye - this is one of those images! Thanks for offering something that isn't just DPC friendly eye-candy (though of course there's nothing wrong with eye-candy). I'll be picking one of these images for my Mu (most underrated) award:

Positives: I just could pass this one by - great scene, well served by the monochrome and the image grain. Bags of atmosphere.

Critical stuff: Not much, I can't shake the feeling that the image might have been better if the composition was shifted 10% to the left but I am nit picking.

Overall: A very effective image.

...passion
by dougi555

Comment:
Very, very well executed.

"Sunrise @ Chunky Gal Point"
by Rmac

Comment:
Really beautiful.

Perhaps its my monitor but I'm seeing some target banding in the sky - I'm guessing this wasn't a RAW / 16 bit workflow?

come on andy ,its your pills
by cutout

Comment:
OK, I'm going through the Free Study submissions, purposefully finding those images I think are shot with a less conventional eye - this is one of those images! Thanks for offering something that isn't just DPC friendly eye-candy (though of course there's nothing wrong with eye-candy). I'll be picking one of these images for my Mu (most underrated) award:

Positives: quite a thought provoking image.... I think.... I have been guided by the title quite a lot and I'm aware that is shaping how I am viewing it.

Critical stuff: We could list quite a lot - the colour noise, the lack of drama in the composition, the tight crop, the unsympathetic aspect ratio....

Overall: I really don't know - as a created vision, perhaps it is what you wanted to achieve but I can't help feeling that this is something that fell out of experimentation for the camera movement challenge that you though up an effective post hoc title for. In the end, for me, it isn't very successful as an imag.

Waiting for the moment
by Judi

Comment:
I'm not really a fan of wedding photography - but this sort of work is capable of changing my mind. Very accomplished.

Deep Blue
by rmezzo

Comment:
As far as baby portraits go - this is about as good as it gets. I'd love to see the post-processing on this for the colour and contrast - it looks like Color Efex Pro's Pro-Contrast filter, but I hope you post the details.

Really high quality work.

American Walkabout
by pixelpig

Comment:
OK, I'm going through the Free Study submissions, purposefully finding those images I think are shot with a less conventional eye - this is one of those images! Thanks for offering something that isn't just DPC friendly eye-candy (though of course there's nothing wrong with eye-candy). I'll be picking one of these images for my Mu (most underrated) award:

Positives: A very visionary photograph with bags of impact. The colouration is fantastic and the overall effect is one of a sunset - the radial light patterns are excellent; the sense of movement offered by the people is really compelling too. Most of all I like the POV and aspect ratio - this is just right. Of course the limits at DPC mean that we aren't seeing the best of this image; I'd love to see a larger version of it.

Critical stuff: Nothing at all

Overall: Such a well-balanced image, everything is in harmony - light, shade, blur, focus, blue, yellow. Great stuff.