tone mapping
by krnodil

Comment:
What a ridiculous use of tonemapping. You've made half the picture look blown out and overexposed. You've utterly abused this technique in order to make a picture of a concrete garbage bin into a frightening fantasyland where winter and summer battle for control of a harsh world. Ice blinds me and bugs bite me at the same time. The planet threatens to crack open.

I have seen hundreds of reverent but utterly pointless tonemappings, only to discover you wielding this dangerous power for an actual purpose. You have dared to betray mundane reality and foist your own interpretation on it. Be warned, you have ventured into the realm of the artist. It is a realm where emotions run high and discontent is always right around the corner.

Are you sure you don't want to take studio shots of jewelry and puppies?

The Picture of Dorian Gray
by bdenny

Comment:

Originally posted by purpleflutterby13: (heh, except why is the portrait so damn happy? I always imagined it as falling apart from all that sin and debauchery :p )

Yeah, I noticed the same thing. It's probably because, you know, most people smile in portaits!

_MG_6581.jpg
by quiet_observation

Comment:
haha! terrific!

Holy Spirit
by Shaman

Comment:
extra point for burning a Bible.

The Picture of Dorian Gray
by bdenny

Comment:
Dr. Confuser has missed the point. The only reason this scored poorly is because apparently most DPC voters are culturally illiterate.

the bard
by bucket

Comment:
vengeance is mine!

Poppy2.jpg
by eamurdock

Comment:
The OOF is perfect. That's the best part of this. It's the OOF that makes the colors so beautiful. Colors are just colors after all, waiting to see what we do with them. My only suggestion is a more interesting composition, but I'm perverse that way. The composition actually works very well, it just seems "familiar".

Peaceful
by jjusa

Comment:
there's something cloudy about this, and I don't just mean the clouds. It lacks the sharply saturated look so prevalent in DPC landscapes... thank God. I like the way what's in the water battles with the reflections on the water. Landscapes tend to bore me but this is very pleasant to look at. I actually enjoy just sitting and looking at it. The title is apt, not because it's a sedate scene but because the act of looking is itself peaceful.

24
by mia67

Comment:
I would call this "formalism." You have neglected the sentimental attachments the viewer might associate with children in order to focus on the purely visual composition and a photographic version of brushstrokes. Some of the most profound art comes from the integration of form with content, but there is something very exciting about the "neglectfulness" of almost pure formalism. Content, sometimes referred to as reality, dissolves before your very eyes. Glass in particular seems to be the main protagonist of this dissolution. Notice how the foreground girl reaches right into it, unafraid. Oops there I go with the content again... I guess we all have to wake up sometime.

Shaped like a Man
by Mikkel

Comment:
Very good. Too advanced for this crowd.