Lines Are Everywhere - Puzzle Macro II
by essay

Comment:
Wow. This is remarkably faithful to the goals of the original challenge and to what Whiterook was trying to accomplish, so you get high props for that.

I vaguely wish you'd resisted the temptation to throw in the always-pleasing DPC cliché water droplet, but I can't really punish you for knowing what the voters like can I? And the image is beautifully lit and actually fairly puzzling, as a macro; exactly what is that surface, anyway? You even managed to make an image that's entirely *brown* (in a brown ribbon challenge) and make it look appealing :-)

End result, an 8 from me for now.

THE GOURMET MEAL : Seared Pork Cutlets on Ginger Infused Silverbeet with Moroccan Cous Cous
by hotpasta

Comment:
Yup, this is completely faithful to the original, way more so than the majority of entries, and that's good in my book. And it's definitely an improvement, as well.

Unfortunately, I don't think it's particularly well done, it's just workmanlike to me in its lighting and processing. In particular, it bothers me that the white, rectangular plate is so utterly dominating the image. If this was a restaurant shot (and from the setting it looks like it probably is) then I realize you didn't have a lot of options re: dinnerware and lighting, but even so, the image just doesn't work all that well for me.

I'll give it a 6 because it is being so faithful to the challenge and it's not so bad a job either... It's just that there's so much unrealized potential here...

Sound
by Rino63

Comment:
Apparently this is a remake of Trish's "Eggs frying" from the first "sound" challenge. So although this is a very nicely lit and technically superior image, I don't really see it as having any relevance to the original image or the original challenge.

If you're saying you can improve a messy photograph of eggs frying by shooting the unbroken eggs in a basket, well yeah, it's *neater* but it's not even remotely the same image. If you're saying you can better answer the challenge "Sound" (and I'm sure you're not) by photographing intact eggs instead of sizzling, popping, frying eggs, well that obviously is not true.

Had you exhibited the same degree of skill in a shot of eggs actually being fried, and managed to communicate that snap & hiss of overheated grease, thn you might have had a winner, but by the standards on which I'm choosing to judge this callenge, your image is a bit of a shoehorn.

Still, the skill's there, so you get a 6 from me for now.

Whoops! Missed the first time
by sekarmalathy

Comment:
Took some courage to do this one, since it was one of the top scorers in the original Brown Ribbon Deja Vu challenge :-)

You have, of course, vastly improved on the original, no question about that. This is nicely lit and processed. I do wish you'd actually scrounged up a real arrow, I keep getting hung up on the sheer impossibility of arching with an unfletched skewer... :-)

All in all, a good, better-than-workmanlike rehashing of the brown, and a 7 from me for now.

Grey Girl II
by rmedavid

Comment:
Oh what a bummer. Gorgeous image!

orange leaf (yeah, very creative) - Seasonal Shots Challenge
by Pixelstate

Comment:
Well, there ya go! Way to answer a challenge, way to teach how to make a shot of an orange leaf more interesting. An excellent response to the challenge. As an image I quite like it, what elevates beyond the level of nice-but-fairly-mundane is the falling snow. Well processed, 8 from me for now.

Figaro's Cool Colors (image #664769)
by halopes

Comment:
Well, this one's in the great tradition of semi-shoehorned "Deja Vu" shots at DPC :-) I'm not criticizing, mine's a bit the same way, just sayin'...

The original is a REALLY bad, daylit beach scene. This has in common with the original exactly three things: water, sky, and tons of blue. But it's a night shot, it's an urban waterfront shot, it's a city-view shot, none of which the original are. So how do I judge this?

It's an excellent image, I like it a lot. Foreground is terrific. As a response tothe challenge, it's not so successful IMO, but that's just me. I'm gonna give it a 7 for now; if the original had been a bridge-in-BG shot you'd have had at least an 8, maybe a 9. Nice work! I may bump it later, depends what else I find.

Abandoned House...
by RulerZigzag

Comment:
In the sense that both images are abandoned residential structures, you are responding to the challenge. You're taking a very different approach (the whole vs a detail) that may or may not be an improvement. Technically this one's far superior, the original was a mess, so that's a plus.

Speaking of this image's merits independent of "deja vu" considerations, I am wishing you had taken the effort to even out the lighting on the top a little bit, and the cropping is uncomfortably tight for me. The B/W conversion is very nice. A 6 for now.

Duck Pond Redux Green Challenge Mar03
by avalanche1030

Comment:
Well, the original is two ducks swimming on a pond, this one's two ducks at the edge of a pond, and it's an improvement at least insofar as lighting, color, and exposure goes, so you are answering the challenge. Unfortunately it's not an improvement at all as far as composition goes, the really interesting part of the image (the flapping wings) is almost indecipherable in the clutter, so it's sort of a wash. Because you're answering the challenge precisely and have some areas of improvement, a 5 from me.

"Buddy" by Rogerspaul
by LMA128

Comment:
Well, should we deduct points because it's a weinerdog instead of a beagle? Nah, I used to have a dachshund myself :-)

The original is a face closeup of a dog. It's not very successful at all. YOur approach was to pull back to see the whole body but incorporate very shallow DOF to keep our attention on the face. This was absolutely a smart thing to do, and you've answered the challenge precisely by producing an endearing pet image that could serve as a textbook teaching example, along with the original, in a "How to Improve Your Photography" book.

An 8 from me, could go up depending on what else I find.