Washed Up
by Blue Moon

Comment:
Very nice! Congratulations; keep it up for WPL!!!

PrismaBurst
by rex

Comment:
With the exception of the glare on the pencils, this is really awesome. Congratulations!

The Voyage
by Cutter

Comment:
Excellent image. Congratulations!

• First Night, 2007 •
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Congrats, Bear, on a well done pic :) Also, thanks for using HDR in a good way.

Wheeeeeeee
by ericwoo

Comment:
Hey! I've almost made this same shot but not this good and not this guy :)

HIT
by movieman

Comment:
Nice processing, seriously. Uggh.

Frozen
by mediamst

Comment:
Dang.

Goldfinger
by cheekymunky

Comment:
I THINK sepia would have made it more "gold" and made it better for me. Nice background. 8

From Russia, With Love
by karmat

Comment:
I know this one! No vote, but it would get about a 6. I hope to heck you unloaded the gun and put it back where it was before!!!

High Voltage (basic editing)
by crayon

Comment:

Originally posted by yanko: Shouldn't the reason for this DQ be major element added? The use of USM is not spot editing.

"Major Elements" is was not applicable to basic editing. I still don't understand the reason for DQ if USM actually created the effect. Since Basic Editing as of the date of this challenge was "tool based" and USM was legal if applied to the entire image, I don't understand the "spot editing" comment. Was there additional editing that was truly spot editing, or was the miscommunicated USM usage actually all that was wrong? Regardless of whether the DQ stands, was the image actually illegal????