Buffalo, NY Finally Sees Winter's Entrance (after unseasonably long high temps.)
by dsterner

Comment:
Composition is pretty nice although cropping the bottom might help a bit as mentioned. Also maybe a bit looser crop on the right, to include all of the branches on the rightmost tree. Definitely adjusting the contrast would help a ton. First it is normally not so great to see so much gray in a picture, and secondly you want to get brighter tones to emphasize the white "snow-ness" of the image.

Study Tableau
by dsterner

Comment:
The main thing I notice about this that you could improve is that there seems to be a reddish tint over the entire image and the paper just doesn't seem right. There are multiple ways that you could address something like this - in Photoshop, using levels, curves, hue/saturation, and brightness/contrast will all make some sort of effect. What I would do first, if this were my image, would be to use levels or curves. That gives you a bit more control, I have found, in brightening up the whites - if you look at the shot the white paper doesn't really seem all that white. You could adjust levels as a whole or adjust the red levels separately.

I'd recommend playing around with all the different options and seeing what you like. You could even use adjustment layers (legal in basic if they're in "normal" blending mode and there are no masks), making changes one at a time (hiding each after you do it so that you can make your next change to the original image) and that would allow you to see very easily the differences between the methods (while keeping a copy of the original background layer, which is helpful).

Post Mortem Examination
by samhall

Comment:
I think that the composition is really nice and the lighting is also great. Not a fan of the motion blur in the left but everything else technique-wise I think is pretty good.

Bad Clown
by Jesuispeure

Comment:
AIEEE freaky!

Dark Angel
by Judi

Comment:
Really nice except the white spots, which I find very distracting. Great colors and I love the smoke.

Bad wisdom toothache
by tomz

Comment:
I've been staring at this for a while trying to decide if I think the blood is real. If it isn't, then I think you've fooled me! I'm not too big of a fan of the way it doesn't look like it's on the lip so much, especially the left side (of the photo). However I think this was definitely pulled off nicely.

VENOM: BAD HAIR DAY
by hotpasta

Comment:
Ummmmm.. ewwwww ewwww ICK ICK ICK.
*ahem*
Very very excellent and wonderfully detailed photo. Congrats.

Eyed
by Melethia

Comment:
I absolutely ADORE the colors you used. Very beautiful combination.

Cash Is No Longer King!
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
Awesome concept!!!! Ahh, and the Washington has a black eye and scrape.. how funny!

The Bible Speaks to God's children
by jan_vdw

Comment:
Hmm. This doesn't fit the idea of personification that I'm seeing from most of the images, which would be the visual representation of a person, or "shows human characteristics" from the challenge description. However, I feel that it very definitely "evokes a human feeling" and so I think it very much fits the challenge. The composition is unique but very interesting, and I think it draws much more attention to it being the Bible, rather than the specific words on that certain page, than I think a 90 degree rotated pic would. Overall a very good job.