Red and Blue
by severin

Comment:
I think you have given yourself up (or maybe because I actually read the posts!) You have remember that not everyone reads the titles and it took me a full 5 seconds to get this one. ...although once I did I thought how clever! ok- so techincally I would have upped the saturation on the crayola box- you seem to have some glare off it. I am giving you a 7 for the idea and a +1 for those who don't read the titles! :0)

Gateway to the city of luminance
by RulerZigzag

Comment:
the colors in the water seem a little drastic and I might have selective colored the blues and pushed them up a notch. Great compostition and good colors! 7

Circle of illumination.
by kiropractic

Comment:
I might have shifted some of the colors to get a full specrum but wow either way!

Piercing the Fog
by Beagleboy

Comment:
I don't know if that light is natural or not but it sure looks overdone to me! wow how do I judge? well, I guess wether it's natural or not I don't really like the effect and if it was natural I would have toned it down some. Ok- so, if not for the light a 9 or 10 but for now an 8. Such a superb image other than that!!! when I scroll down (so as to 'crop') it's just enchanting!

The Depot
by rayg544

Comment:
ohhh I like it- did you tone this or is it natural? eerie

ONE hundred and EIGHTY
by burtct

Comment:
a little bit of purple fringing I would have desaturarted on the metal- I had this idea but couldn't fathom how to pull it off!

Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil
by CEJ

Comment:
well done! although I think the lighting could have been a little less harsh... 7

Spout it out
by jmlelii

Comment:
I can see why the crop is how it is, but I would suggest cropping even further- just to the right of the middle poster and then you could crop out the others as well. Also the posters make me realize that the image is not level. I wonder if you could have gotten away with cloning them out without a DQ? Other than the posters a gorgeous image. perhaps you could have shot from higher up? Also there is a distracting element between the first spouts from the left that could have been cloned out... a 6, may bump up later

Pepper Sunlight
by oOWonderBreadOo

Comment:
From a thread- just want to keep it w/ the image...

The image is, first of all, not NEARLY as textural as you'd want it to be for this topic. It's luminous, but it doesn't really say "texture" to me. Compositionally, it's divided vertically into an in-focus and an our-of-focus section more or less precisely on the vertical bisector of the image; that's a very static composition. Fully half your image is out of focus, but it's unfortunately rendering the same VALUE as the in-focus part (the leaves are lit the same), so it looks vaguely like sloppy work.

Try making a selection of the in-focus leaf, invert the selection, and use levels to tone down everything but that leaf; I bet you'll find that a distinct improvement. I realize that wouldn't have been legal in this challenge, btw, but try it and watch what happens.

Finally, the way the left arc of the subject leaf is truncated by the left edge of the image doesn't feel right to me, especially inasmuch as there's (as I mentioned) fully half the image out of focus on the right, an area that could easily have been eliminated to osme degree by panning the camera left on the subject leaf, so the ratio was more like 2/3, 1/3.

Chicago--selective-color.jpg
by sheapod

Comment:
I think you did a great job- the clouds and the blue hues are especially outstanding :0)