Defiance
by Imagineer

Comment:
HIIII YA!! LOL! Bow before my claws silly human type things!!

The Shooters Of Slot Canyon
by TommyMoe21

Comment:
I'd skip photogs in the photograph any day, but at this location especially. Maybe a person in native garb bathed in light, but clash between art and journalistic type shot here doesn't really work for me. I would have scored this an 8-9 without them, or a 10 with a person under the shaft of light, native or not, if they just weren't holding a camera. 7 though

Opposite
by Joey Lawrence

Comment:
Hi Joey!

"Is it gonna rain today?"
by russi

Comment:
what the??

Pretty Flower
by redmoon

Comment:
This is a little less sharp that it seems a macro should be, but I like the colors and composition.

by andri

Comment:
I stared at this for at least 3 minutes, and I still have no idea what I am looking at.

Traffic Light Spectrum
by mpeters

Comment:
::Greetings from the Critique Club::

Such a hard photo to critique, mark.

Can I really find anything wrong with the Composition? Not really, interesing depth of detail and many different elements to gawk at. Lots of detail and interesting colors and constrast. The textures on the wall and ground, the interplay of the light....

But then, maybe what this challenge called for was a certain kind of simplicity. A clear and definite message or subject that jumps up and grabs you by the ears and says, "look right there moron!" I don't know, If you look through the top 30, this is mostly what you do see though. You have so much depth of detail in this image that some of the lesser elements compete for attention. While most of the time I would like that, maybe not for this challenge.

Another issue might be the high contrast. I looked at this on a few different monitors that are here at work. One SuperbrightNEC, one that is always too dark, and one that is middle-ish. The orders of magnitude in sharpness and detail are much different on all three. The one that is too dark gave the subject focus that I was talking about before, suggesting that maybe even more burning, or possibly a shorter shutter would have been apropriate.

Overall I really like this image though and think that it should have been given a more fair judgement. However, speedvoting, and badly calibrated monitors do not do this image justice.

Good Burgers, Great Shakes!
by StopDown

Comment:
I like this, but my winsteads pic is better ;D

And I Let Go
by dahkota

Comment:
This is absoultely in every way a beautiful picture.

my favorite shape
by jossy

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique club :O)

Just te get it out of the way, it's too small. There, I said it.

The colors in this are just great, very bright but with enough dark contrast to keep it interesting.

I can see you used a shallow DOF, with the front being severely OOF, it may be the size but it didn't work. With the picture being so small as entered, it doesn't serve the effect of singling out the piece of candy int the upper third. I'm thinking maybe it's a different shape than the others, but again, I can't completely see that. You're comments say it is, but I can't really tell. The point of using shallow DOF and other comp techniques it to immediately bring the viewer to the subject of the photo. Being so small, the technique loses impact.

Possibly removing the wrapper could also serve to highlight the candy also, though I know you were using shallow DOF to single it out, just another method. Using color contrast and a non-matching patterns also makes a subject pop out. A bright solid Candy of a different color scheme than the wrappers would pop out even at this size.

Hope you found this helpful, and keep working on your entries.