Summer Innocence
by dssagent88

Comment:
the selective desaturation does not work at all for me on this shot. The girl is beautiful and either b/w or color would have worked SO much better.

Sophia
by njsabs

Comment:
wonderful lighting - maybe a bit much on the sharpening of the eyes

Corn
by pointandshoot

Comment:
very intense use of editing - very surreal - not sure I like it but it sure made me look more than once!

artificial rhythm \ natural rhythm
by shoggy

Comment:
love the theme and concept here - just would have liked a little more depth of contrast to really make this jump out a little more

Darwin's Keyboard
by jonfrommk

Comment:
jon - very creative shot - gave it an 8 during the challenge. The silly thing is that I needed to look at my keyboard to figure it out

Day 22 - Rosebud - Dedicated to SandyP
by sherpet

Comment:
I really love the treatment of this photo. The colors and watercolor feel of this are so cool. I'm glad you are feeling better and are able to get out and take pictures again.

Two Reams of Paper
by DistantColours

Comment:
incredibly good lines and lighting here - fantastic vision to create a work of art from this mundane object 10

Origami Lesson
by mohhomad

Comment:
the composition of the photo is fine but the lighting is extremely harsh

Every little girls dream...
by piaffe529

Comment:
It is a pretty horse and you have captured a dream of many a young girls. However, as others have stated, the image really has some technical issues that resulted in the sub 5 score.

First, the lighting is not flattering and works against you - the background is too bright and takes us away from the horse. Second, the extraneous pole, harness, and other lines distract from the beauty of the horse. Third, the color cast seems off.

I understand that you were trying to use blur to give a feeling of dreaminess - but with the other technical issues, this blur just seemed like OOF.

Simplifying the image is what is needed for photos on this site to do well - taking a shot of the horse head without the harness and making sure the background does not distract would have scored much better.

iBook
by Abstract

Comment:
very creative shot - love the composition and concept. I think this could have been just about perfect if there was slightly better cutting of the pages on the left hand side of the slice - a couple of the pages don't quite line up - but that is being ever so picky!!! 9