Broken Down with Age !!
by mightythor

Comment:
The image is very washed out - this can be fixed in an editing tool, but make sure your monitor is well calibrated first

brake the mould
by alpharich

Comment:
This has so much potential, but you have not given yourself even half a chance.
Lets look at the background - too much going on, too much detail. Stop down to f2.8 or f4 to throw all that background out of focus.
Next lets look at the light - bland and flat. Come back at dawn or dusk and get some sideways directional light to pick out the shapes.
Composition - the main object is placed dead centre, remember the rule of thirds and look for an angle where you can make use of it.

Last - that hint of blue keeps dragging my eye over the hill. Place your camera and viewpoint so that you do not have these distractions. Hide it behind one of the upright pieces.

sun-feb-12-027.jpg
by Rando D300

Comment:
haha - he was teasing you ;-)

Lemon Drop
by Rikki

Comment:
Congrats Rikki - very well deserved blue

Space & Time
by hokie

Comment:
Returning to bump this one up a little - like the way the watch face fades into the light.

color my world
by woodsey

Comment:
OK - I voted this a 5!
For me the reasons it didn't get higher are, a) its a little bit of a tired theme, there are lots and lots of examples of this on DPC, which is not a problem except that many of the examples are much more vibrant and cleaner than this. b) the colors are dull and washed out, nothing really jumps off the screen. If you are going to repeat a formula then you have to take it one step further. Its fine to learn and practice, but your scores will reflect that. c) the border doesn't do much for me, but again thats personal taste.

All that being negative comment I do think you have had a reasonable attempt, with better lighting you might get a sharper and cleaner image. Boost the saturation in PS and you will be well on the way.

Hope you don't think I'm being too brutal

Color Burst
by donniev

Comment:
Nice pastel shades, nice structure, has leading lines, but I can't get excited about it. There is something missing, it needs another element, but I don't know what that is.

Desktop drama
by BrennanOB

Comment:
Not sure what I'm looking at, which is what the challenge asked for ;-)
However there doesn't appear to be any structure to the image, or very little apart from the bold blocks of color. It's nice but I need more to make it claim those 6 points.

Wave
by gurlwithapen

Comment:
I quite like this image, but the one thing which kills it for me is the focus. You need to have that white swirl in focus, its the one element which the eye recognises as breaking the pattern but being out of focus is 'uncomfortable'.

KCRC3
by banmorn

Comment:
Very graphic. I expected to see more of these in the challenge. This a a very good example of the genre.