Day 1 - Ev
by jonfrommk

Comment:
not enough tone in my opinion. needs a curves run over it. I love the crop. Play around with the curves and contrast to create more depth in the B&W.

DAY 1. B&W. full moon ..
by roz

Comment:
touch of contre jour in this.. I think you were right, it would get a 5 from me too not because of the B&W conversion but the subject matter is boring IMHO if you use this same technique on a town shot or street shot or even a portrait then it would be excellent..

Strong
by Retroesque

Comment:
has an infra red feel to it.. the lines are working for me, the tree distracts a bit and i might of been tempted to recrop the shot. tones are great though well done

Tone Mapped Hoh Rainforest
by DrAchoo

Comment:
Yeh man... just the right ammount of throttle used on the ol' HDR nicely done. I always tend to go into overkill mode but that's just me.. I LOVE overkill

Reflecting Union Jack
by benhur

Comment:
great stuff Ben

Hells Kitchen
by MAK

Comment:

Originally posted by KarenNfld: Originally posted by MAK: it is an EXPERT editing ruleset No, it's an advanced editing challenge (oh, and BTW I did not vote this a 1). Congrats on 5th place.

Ooooops you are correct, I apologise about that part but the rest still stands LOL!

Kitchenware
by whiterook

Comment:
looks like there is very tough competition for this coveted award of the brown ribbon, you need to dig deeper Stephen. the brown winner is a trademark brown in this challenge, perfectly OOF with very little apeal, your shot however is actually pretty bad but just not quite bad enough.. come on dude you can do worse than this.. TRY!

Hells Kitchen
by MAK

Comment:

Originally posted by Cutter: People probably gave you 1's, 2's and 3's because it is a cartoon. I didn't vote.

But it is a cartoon that is in focus and meets the challenge, like I say I have no problem with the 3's and at the end of the day it is an EXPERT editing ruleset so it does in fact mean that you may use photoshop a lot (if you so desire) the fact that this shot recieved 5 X 1s to me, does not show a simple dislike of the cartoon editing but more of an attempt to lower the end result thus known as TROLLING.

A vote of 1 should be issued to a shot that is 160x160 pixels totally void of any connection to the challenge without any focus whatsoever. But anyway, as I have always stated, A vote should be a persons free choice to do with what they please. but if the rules say you cannot issue a 10 to someone who's style you recognise (friend) then I believe it should work at the other end too when a shot (like this) clearly does not deserve a vote of 1 (another instance is the great shots of Librodo that get a string of brutal 1 votes too) I think that this kind of voting should also be policed (Im sure that SC are doing everything they can to deal with it) We ALL get affected by it. I have found very few shots that truely deserve a vote of 1.

Friend voting is cheating. I am guilty as charged and openly apologised for my part in it.
So is Trolling cheating and should be dealt with in the same manner IMHO.

here ends my little tale... I am totally happy with the placing of 5th I am just making a point.

Thanks

creatore del cappuccino
by tate

Comment:
mmm capacino... good yellow congrats

On Stand-By
by Jas

Comment:
nice red shot congrats