Secret WWII-Era Prison Discovered
by chalice

Comment:
Probably a bit too dark for a newspaper submission but could work in a feature article in a magazine.

"Carson City's Jennifer Furst- Is First Again"
by jrjr

Comment:
Excellent capture and well served in B&W.

Snohomish Invitational GU-13 Finals
by margiemu

Comment:
Would make a good picture in the local sports section of a paper.

Long live the Queen (Queensday celebration in The Netherlands)
by Titia

Comment:
Great candid! Both expressions are good and the composition and colors are good as well.

Small Town Emergency
by bryantbus

Comment:
Good choice for the challenge. I'd have cropped it a bit more on the right, perhaps to the edge of the "keep back" yellow thing.

Colorful Fragrance
by Artan

Comment:
I'm quite surprised this didn't place higher. It's an elegant, well-presented shot which meets the challenge particularly well - the blue is used to effectively highlight the orange. And besides all that, the swirl pattern is VERY cool.

The Blue Line
by Rae-Ann

Comment:
Great job, Rae-Ann, and awesome finish! Perfect crop for this composition and I like the desat - really works well in negative.

Hot and Cool Complementary Peppers
by chalice

Comment:
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I think you did a good job with the lighting here but it could have had more "pop" (a certifiable DPC term, I'm sure) if the background had been whiter. I suspect you can set this with post processing, though not sure what it would do to the colors of the peppers. My other comment would be that it's a bit busy and haphazard, though I like the sorta diagonal formed by the large red peppers. My grandmother taught my mother who told me that in arranging anything, one should stick to odd numbers - here I think three, or maybe five peppers would be a simpler more dramatic arrangement.

All that said, it scored fairly well, and the folks who gave it 2s and 3s were probably grumpy that day or tired of shots of peppers/vegetables this week. Who knows?

spooky
by DanSig

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I did the "drag, drop, invert" thing for quite a few pics in this challenge - this was one of them. I *really* like the positive version - well lit, well composed, nice detail - all the good stuff. I'm not as fond of the negative. For some reason, negatives of people aren't as appealing as negatives of "things". That said, I think it might be interesting to see in color, reversed, depending on what color you used for a background in this shot.

Event Horizon
by Louis

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While voting in this challenge, I often took the pic into PS and inverted to see the original. The neat thing about this one is the negative appears to go right to left as far as field of view; the positive is just the opposite (though it you look long enough, they both go both ways).

The reason I didn't score this higher is that it didn't seem "negative" enough to me - in other words, I didn't get the impression I was looking at a "negative", though I knew it was. Technically, you did a very good job with the DOF and exposure. You may try cropping off part of the right side to bring the focused drops just a bit closer to the viewer.