Shamrock
by NeVeRyn

Comment by Melethia:
Two things hurt the score on this one - lack of crisp, clean focus on your main subject (the yellow flower) and not enough oomph towards the challenge topic. More of a shot from above than a tilted subject, in other words.

Potential 5 Motivation 3 Imagination ???
by NeVeRyn

Comment by Melethia:
LOVE the giant monitor! I'm terribly envious! Also really like the sentiment - I'm not a big fan of pandering titles but this one is quite funny. When doing shots like this, your best bet is to try to simplify the background as much as possible - hang a black cloth, maybe? Totally ruins the ambience of the setting but makes for a simpler, more clarified photograph. You've clipped the corner of your laptop off - that can be jarring to a viewer, even though they don't know why. Same thing happens, apparently, when you cut off peoples' hands or feet unexpectedly.

Moss Agate
by NeVeRyn

Comment by Melethia:
Looks a bit like little archipelagos in some gray sea somewhere.

Agate 1
by NeVeRyn

Comment by Melethia:
These make for excellent abstracts, but still definitive enough to not completely befuddle the viewer. Try hitting this one with another serious dose of contrast, then bright up the lights at the high end (in Photoshop, you'd use levels and move the right slider back in toward the center - not sure if that exists in DPP, which I once had but never used...)

IMG_4330-revisited
by NeVeRyn

Comment by Melethia:
I prefer your original. But keep in mind that DPC, in general, prefers simpler, less complicated, and this is a bit simpler. But to me, you lose the bits around the edges, the stuff just coming in from the darkness. I like that kinda thing. I tend to do that, and I tend to not score well when I do. :-)

The other thing DPC really likes is WOW. In all CAPS! This is a quiet kind of shot - good clean crisp focus (another big plus in the DPC world) but not a WOW kinda subject. A pretty girl, a lovely landscape, a very bright, colorful, sharp, well-lit macro - those kinds of things. I'm about to go look at the rocks you have in your portfolio - those may be the ticket!

3 By 3 To Grow a Tree
by NeVeRyn

Comment by theoutcrop:
lovely composition.

Unearthly Glow
by NeVeRyn

Comment by giantmike:
OVerall, I like this. I'm sure some won't like the look of the direct light, but I think it gives a feeling of waiting through the brush with a flashlight. I do wish some of the background elements on the left side would have been cloned out.

Unearthly Glow
by NeVeRyn

Comment by bassbone:
a study in shapes - i am just not sold on the choice of composition to completely lose the left half of the image

Ancient Lives Written In Stone
by NeVeRyn

Comment by KarenNfld:
Very cool.

Moss Agate
by NeVeRyn

Comment by KarenNfld:
Almost looks like Google Earth!