Nine Rolls
by cbondar

Comment by bob350:
Using light to show the texture works pretty well here. Stack seems oddly off, maybe leaning towards us a little.

Nine Rolls
by cbondar

Comment by cutout:
nine rolls standing on the wall
one fell down
eight rolls standing on the
so a 8

Nine Rolls
by cbondar

Comment by poser:
just a little to bland for my taste.

Nine Rolls
by cbondar

Comment by ericwoo:
Not a bad plan, but the lighting is far too harsh, uneven and unbalanced for this one. My eye is immediately drawn to the several hot spots in the image and captured there. 4.

Little Girls Shoes
by cbondar

Comment by Paul:
OK, I'm going through the Free Study submissions, purposefully finding those image I think are shot with a less conventional eye and leaving my thoughts and score - this is one of those images! Thanks for offering something that isn't just DPC friendly eye-candy (though of course there's nothing wrong with eye-candy):

Positives first: I really like you eye here, drawing our attention to something we might just walk by - offering a suggestion of a story to tell. To me it looks like the shoes are the wrong way around, left and right swapped - which makes me wonder how they were placed there. The placement of the shoes in the frame is just right too, as is the focus which communicates the texture of the wall slabs very well.

Critical stuff: Although the background is interesting enough, the grey of the trees just seems a tad flat to me. I have had this problem before myself and I've really only managed to sort out my monochromes by using Nik Silver Efex in Basic, but in Advanced I would've thought that some selective darkening of the tops of the trees or some increase in contrast in those areas might've improved things. Another approach may have been to use a much wider aperture and bokeh-ise the background but of course you woul've lost some of the context.

Overall a thought-provoking and welcome image.

Little Girls Shoes
by cbondar

Comment by annig:
kinda hard to see the shoes, not much impact

Little Girls Shoes
by cbondar

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
Might have worked a little better for me without the van in the background.

Decorative Footwear
by cbondar

Comment by JulietNN:
HI from the CC club,

For your first entry this is very good!! Well done

1st Impressions, it is very dark, the lighting is dark. In post processing you could have used the shadow highlights, exposure and or brightness, using the unsharp would have give you a little edge too. . Your leading lines are excellent.

Overall, if it was just a tad lighter then I think this would have scored higher than it did.

Great job Cant wait to see what else you produce!

Decorative Footwear
by cbondar

Comment by JustinM:
pretty cool... my personal taste does not include black as nail polish but then who am I to judge....

Decorative Footwear
by cbondar

Comment by hotpasta:
lovely...very nice use of black