Celebrate
by Kelli

Comment by chalice:
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Congrats for having this image land in the middle of your top five. I like the abstract quality of the fireworks, the multiple colors, and the slightly off-center capture/composition. Given that I like fireworks this photo works for me. Since PP is not permitted, I guess that sums this up.

Sailing towards calmer water
by Kelli

Comment by chalice:
There are two things I like about this image: (1) the idea of using color to simulate a storm or rough waters, and (2) the blue colors themselves and the way they fill the whole frame. Having said that, I am not a fan of posterizing and other heavy filters. Here it is particularly tough, because the subject is glass which by its nature is transparent. The posterized treatment comes right through the glass and makes the focal point of the picture hard to discern. With glass, less is more IMHO.

Permanently Docked - USS New Jersey
by Kelli

Comment by Vapor63:
Nice colors.

Celebrate
by Kelli

Comment by Melethia:
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Wow! Very cool! Nice addition to your top row, too! Really a lovely capture - extremely well framed with the camera. Good color and sharpness for fireworks. Well done!

Fire Flower
by Kelli

Comment by Melethia:
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I gave this a 6 because by gosh, it wasn't just another flower! I thought it fit for a flower challenge around the 4th of July just fine, but then I'm weird. I kinda like the long horizontal crop, too. I suspect a lot of the scoring is either DNMC related or crop related.

Future 10
by Kelli

Comment by Blue Moon:
wow, a little girl wearing a powerpuff swimsuit is a babe. that's just weird for me to say that, but it's true.

Sailing towards calmer water
by Kelli

Comment by timfythetoo:
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I will be up front and say that most of the figurine type shots just didnt grab my attention in this challenge. I think your shot was too heavily processed. The figurine detail gets lost in the funky tones and textures of the colors in the background. It has a messy feel to it and no real focus. Just distracting in general. I scored a 5 because you did at least try to be creative with your shot where other figurine shots scored less because they were just flat out boring with no creativity. Here you tried but the results were not that good in my eyes. (But I wear glasses so take this opinion for what its worth.)

Celebrate
by Kelli

Comment by rinac:
Coooool! Love it :)

fireworks1.jpg
by Kelli

Comment by kirsty_mcn:
Too early for the challenge? Aww, hard luck. This is a really great shot, with the skyline and bridge giving the fireworks context. Composition is great, the only thing I might change is use curves/levels to darken the skies a tad, just to make them a deeper black.

Sailing towards calmer water
by Kelli

Comment by kirsty_mcn:
Hmmm...I have to say that this one doesn't really do anything for me. At first I thought you suffered badly from JPEG compression, but I see that you used posterize so that effect was intentional. I'm personally not keen on posterize, but thats just me, I don't tend to like shots that look too heavily processed.

One thing that would really have helped would be if the boat was more obviously a boat - even with the title I'm struggling to figure it out. Also, the composition is very centralized, which makes it much more static