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by UniversalTheory

Comment:
this is nice. very nice. it's a little off-kilter and i think i like that :) very good BW conversion given the limited basic editing rules. good find.

Pathways
by jaredldr

Comment:
a little flat, but really interesting subject. like the winding path, and like the tree cutting the image. would love to see this a little more contrasty, specifically with blacker blacks (that's just my preference).

JD in B&W
by Wobble

Comment:
yes please. :) (though it's "Gentleman Jack" for me this evening). this kind of shot tends to get hammered on DPC - high key, grainy, a little off the beaten path...all the things i love in a photo that get 4s around here.

you get a 7 from me, and a high five.

Friends
by jazper

Comment:
either you used a flash on this, or a REALLY strong spot light. unfortunately close up flash makes for some nasty highlights, as evidenced in the reflection on the balls and their noses and cheeks. it also makes the background unnaturally dark. if you can use more notural or ambient light with a higher ISO, you can minimize this effect, even with a little fill-flash. composition is ok, kids are adorable, BW conversion is quite nice, particularly given the annoying basic editing rules. overall a nice effort.

P

At Ease
by ClubJuggle

Comment:
dammit i wish this wan't basic editing, since his face is begging for a little dodging. composition is pretty basic, but the technicals are nice; well exposed and focused. in advanced editing this could be improved a ton in my opinion. in the absence of that - great job.

Hell with 256K color TFT. Need those calm B&W screens...
by alithenake

Comment:
well executed product shot. nice clarity, decent composition, shallow depth manages to separate your subject nicely. a little on the dry side for subject, but on the whole the image works nicely. well done. 7

Light and Dark
by yeoua

Comment:
nice. love the contrast, though i might have liked it better if you pushed your blacks a little more, so your right eye disappeared. completely. good idea on the background; sort of a double entendre on the theme.

Tear Drop Blues
by kosmikkreeper

Comment:
Yeeeeehaw! Well done Yanik - you are without a doubt my hero (damn too late for that challenge.

P-ness

November
by TooCool

Comment:
very nice except for the exceptionally noisy background. usually a result of oversaturation, but the rest doesn't look that way, so i'm not sure. the colour in the background is great, and punctuates the month nicely, but the noise is quite distracting.
the rest is great. nice shallow depth, crisp focus, nice positioning of the gull within the frame. i can just hear the sounds: "mine! mine! mine!" (sorry - Finding Nemo reference; how can you tell i have a four-year old?)

:)

Pedro

May 2005
by agrimace

Comment:
Assuming that the Persons headstone is the focus of the pic, it seems like it's crowding the lower left edge a little. I like the low perspective and the shallow depth, but my eye still drifts towards other things because the subject os too far off the picture to keep me there. if *that* makes any sense at all :)

Pedro