Exotic Flower....from the ground up
by debreeze

Comment:
The persective here is not from the ground up, so that immediately hurts the score. Colors could be a bit more vibrant and the flower itself could be sharper in focus. Some interesting detail on that thing.

spring water
by dolikemagoo

Comment:
Perspective is pretty much the exact opposite of the challenge. Crop is too tight, nothing here to move the eye around the image. Maybe getting down on your knees, shooting from an angle that does look as if you are looking up at this thing, including all of it in the frame or moving it off to a side, something.

Up the tree
by kalmedo

Comment:
Going through and trying to comment on shots I voted low on. I voted this shot low because, while certainly meeting the challenge, it is a very, very boring photo. The lack of colors here is tough on the eye. Little sprinkling of green among the leaves crushed between a dead sky and the neutral tones of the tree itself. There also look to be some interesting shapes up in the tree so I'm thinking moving back a bit from the trunk would have kept your persective for the challenge while adding some things for the eye to move around on in the photo. The trunk itself overwhelms this picture while at the same tim eoffering almost no detail to study/get interested in. There are probably some nice textures on there that could have been brought out by crisper focus and some increased contrast. Good effort.

Summit Predator
by MIN-BITER

Comment:
This is a nice photo, and I like the BW processing. It's also clearly shot dead on level with the guy so there goes 'from the perspective of the ground up'. Kneeling down behind him and shooting up with those mountains in the background would have made this an excellent photo for the challenge. On a relatively minor note, a litle more contrast to bring out the details on those peaks would be welome here as well. Good effort.

Weightless
by LERtastic

Comment:
I'm leaving comments on shots I voted low, so here we go. Biggest problem here is not meeting the challenge in the least. This photo isn't shot from the perspective of the ground up, it's show from above looking down. That is a huge problem. Don't care for how the kid's upper body is cropped off. I think there might be some promise in a shot like this if shot from below, from a different angle that includes what is probably a really interesting expression on the kid's face, doesn't overwhelm the eye with the boring gray of the skatepark concrete, etc. Good effort.

Web of Life
by honikum

Comment:
Part of the challenge of showing somethign from the persective of the ground up is actually showing that the persepctive is from the ground up. I give benefit of the doubt that you were standing underneath this bug and shot upwards but the angles of the web strands, the fact that there is a fly on the right hanging 'down' - all these things really give the impression that this was pretty much shot straight on horizontally. Little more DOF would be nice to make out more of the web. Hard to make out anything on the spider itself other than the yellow blob on the back. Overall nothing to really interest the viewer here or move the eye around the shot. Biggest drawback though is the perspective thing. Good effort.

Ground up at sunset
by Shaurya

Comment:
I'm going through and leaving comments on photos I voted low on. This photo has some problems. First of all it appears to be over-sharpened which gives it a very harsh, artifical look. Composition wise there isn't really anything here that acts as the focal point of the shot. Cloud details are either neat-images beyond recognition or missing for some other reason, trees are backlit, the sun is barely visible, etc. Pretty colors are always nice but they can not make a photo interesting on their own. Here you've got blue and orange with very little transition between them, and the right side of the photo gets pretty heavy on the darkness with the trees and that big cloud. Good effort.

From My Lawn Up Up and Away
by br o kenl o ve

Comment:
I am going through and leaving comments on photos I voted low. Biggest problem here is that it doesn't meet the challenge of shooting something from the perspective of the ground up. This is a shot pretty much on the level with your subject. So there's a big mark against though I suppose hairs can be split and degrees of ascent argued. Setting that aside, the foreground lighting detracts from the lights in the one house which would otherwise draw my attention quickly and make me think about that part of the photo. What's happening in there, that house looks alive, etc - things that let me take this photo and draw my own conlusions about it. Also looks like the photo is a bit out of focus or suffers from a little motion blur, hard to say, but nothing on that house is looking to crisp. A lot of that combines together to make the only focal point here the two pieces of overexposed light by the door and in the window - not very interesting.

Good effort.

Break in the Clouds
by paullyjay

Comment:
This photo has some issues. The composition is not interesting. Some of the clouds on the right side are blown out. Backlighting the pole doesn't really work well here because it just ends up looking like a jumbled mess on top of a big black mark in the photo. I'm commenting on photos I voted low on as people cry for insight into why they got a low vote. So not being harsh, but there it is.

Big Dipper
by pinbokeshatta

Comment:
I'm going back through and commenting on shots I voted low. Pretty colors in this shot is all it hs going for it. This doesn't really show the perspective of from the ground up as it's pretty much a straight shot at the horizon with a lense that happened to catch a bunch of sky in the process. Composition-wise there is nothing here to look at other than the blue gradient. It just doesn't trip my trigger but, most importantly, is a long stretch for being relevant to the challenge. Good effort.