Gateway to the Night
by dahved

Comment by mpemberton:
Nice photo. noise and focus ae the onlt issues i can see. 8

Scissors Cuts Rock... On Paper
by dahved

Comment by zagman:
Thank you for submitting your photo to the DPChallenge, Rock, Paper, Scissors.

An interesting concept and capture. The idea is a good one. Literally making the words of the title work for you. You show great detail. You have focus on the middle of the frame to relay your message. Somehow, the physical aspect of your action, is not really visible. The scissors cutting, or piercing the rock is not happening. The idea is good the exacution falls a bit short.

I like the black and white conversion. It adds to the drama of the scissors concept. The way the scissors are open to cut helps translate the title back to the viewer. Again, there is no contact with the rock.

Actually the rock looks realistic. If you had not mention it was a printed picture it could almost pass as real. Good one.

Technically there is some harsh lighting on the upper left of the frame. As well as in the upper right hand side. The center of the scissors also looks overdone. I see that you shot this on "Auto" setting. Yeah, sometimes if you have the option on your camera, "Auto" is not the best. It gets trick out with certain room type lighting. Actually it gets confused especially with incandescent lighting. I am not sure if your camera has other settings other than "Auto". But, if it did you could experient with different camera settings.

The scissors also looks suspended somehow in the air. But to your credit, you can't see the glue on or stick on surface on the scissors.

Great idea and concept.

Good luck in your next DPChallenge.

Parking Lot
by dahved

Comment by sigrun_th:
very minimal, great color of the sky

Parking Lot
by dahved

Comment by wester:
there is nothing i want to see on this photo, and it still manages to get cluttered. it would already improve a lot if you'd have just one or two trees or lampposts instead of five.

Parking Lot
by dahved

Comment by ursula:
I think the idea is OK, but you need a bit more "information" here. Just the tops of 4 trees and 2 lights doesn't quite do it IMHO. Maybe go back a bit further and have a bit more of the parking lot included, up to about the same height where the tree tops are now? It's just an idea.

Parking Lot
by dahved

Comment by Joey Lawrence:
Yes it is a parking lot... Or is it?

Your repeating main subject is a little...hmmm... I just don't know. There just doesn't seem much to look at.

Parking Lot
by dahved

Comment by risu81:
Not much of a compelling subject. 4

Parking Lot
by dahved

Comment by beaflies:
This is certainly minimalism, but lacking an interesting subject. Perhaps a whole lamphead in the foreground corner so some details and reflections could be seen.

Parking Lot
by dahved

Comment by Simonkasprzak:
bad snapshot, too sharpened, plain bad, 1

Parking Lot
by dahved

Comment by Tranquil:
Interesting symmetry...