Who will watch the watchmen?
by skewsme

Comment:
This is my kinda shot :-) I like it very much. It's only marginally connected tot he challenge topic, which explains its relatively low score vis a vis the quality. For me the bird is a little too centered; I think you have excess area on the left you can whack off to pull the bird over closer to the left edge. I realize you have him right smack on the 1/3 line, but in my experience the 1/3 lines are too far into the image when you do stretched formats; I tend to work closer to a rule of fourths on skinny shots. That's just my opinion though. Nice work!

Where the bridge meets the sky
by Kelli

Comment:
The color toning here is exceptional. The overall effect of the image is quite nice. The whole danged thing is leaning over to the right, though; I wish you'd rotated CCW to correct that. I also wish you'd pulled a little more shadow detail up. Still, a lovely shot.

Fun House
by Hipychik

Comment:
This is outstanding. It was one of my high scores given. The only nit I have (and it isn't much of a one) is that the reflection portion seems a little muddy, and I wonder if you can crisp that part up simply by selecting the top half of the image and running some curves on it. Lovely shot, and deserving of a better score than it received IMO.

On the Danube
by Bruce_the_Robert

Comment:
This image is deceptively powerful. It is quiet and subdued tot he point of being almost matter-of-fact, yet something in it is singing. I imagine it is even more wonderful when seen at a larger size, when the dusting of snow on the trees has a chance to assert itself in counterpoint to the almost total lack of detail elsewhere. It's not every day a totally blown out sky actually works, but it sure does here :-)

A Point to be Made
by colorcarnival

Comment:
I'm having a hard time relating to this image, largely because it has been "smoothed" to the point of oblivion. Notice in particular how there's no trace of detail on the back of the glove, which is too bad because that's the dominant metaphor of the image, what the hand's doing. On the plus side, this is an excellent use of DOF; you have that right on.

Waiting for Christmas
by griz210

Comment:
Let's not even try to discuss whether this is a valid take on "perspective", and just deal with the image :-) It's an endearing shot on an emotional level. The way the "antlers" match the fur is quite amusing. I wish the santa hat were not hiding behind the antlers; I'd have tried to fix that. The BG furniture is very distracting, especially the wooden leg, so you might have tried to find a better place to set up the pose. On the other hand, maybe the dog's not cooperative? What do I know? Anyway, I got a chuckle from this one :-)

Leading Lines
by BAMartin

Comment:
The tonalities on the right half of this image are fantastic. To my eye there's too much of the very flat-lit wall on the left; it is the least interesting part of the image and it is almost dominant. I also think it would work better if you had set it up so the converging verticals were symmetrical; lining up the right edge vertically has leaned everything else over badly to the right and it's an unnatural way of seeing. On the other hand, this IS the perspective challenge, so perhaps the unnatural perspective was your goal?

A bird's eye view
by purpleflutterby13

Comment:
As an image, this has much to commend it. The detail is fantastic. As far as meeting the challenge, this really doesn't answer well to "perspective", and from your comment I can see you know that. Particularly "off" is the title itself, as of course a birds-eye view is conventionally looking down from a great height.

The image itself can be improved with some shadow recovery and some edge burning to alleviate the very flat sky. Something like this is what I am talking about:

Daddy?
by levyj413

Comment:
This one works very well for me. It has a strong kinship to Posthumous's image. The noise is a definite plus IMO. Overall, it's eerie and horror-movieish, which is a compliment coming from me. I love B-movies :-)

a twisted perspective
by posthumous

Comment:
I like this very much, the brooding, metaphorical essence of it. I like the processing, it works very well. What I'm not *sure* I like as much is the "looking down" perspective on the child. I mean, compositionally this works extremely well, and I suppose the metaphor on "child observed" rather than "from the perspective of a child", but still a part of me wants to see you working from a much lower angle here.