Legs
by JeniY

Comment by aimeethetoo:
Hey! Where's the other roller skate? Just kidding : ) What a fun shot - fabulous colors and cool perspective. I even like the texture of the ground. 8

Legs
by JeniY

Comment by jblaylockrayner:
Nice shot - Love the composition and the placement of the red shoes - Really great and imaginative which always helps the score for me (for you!). You can see the PP in this pic but I don't think it takes away from the image.

Legs
by JeniY

Comment by Hipychik:
I like this. Very different!

Legs
by JeniY

Comment by tannah:
Interesting idea, I like the blue in the jeans. This shot might have been much more interesting if taken from the ground and up ?

DIM
by JeniY

Comment by shutterpuppy:
color of the milk isn't very appetizing, and mottled background is distracting. but nice composition and lighting. - 5

School Bus
by JeniY

Comment by susi:
Yes, hard to get a good shot of a mundane subject, but you did!!

Calvin
by JeniY

Comment by dreamy:
Nice picture
Maybe a bit disbalanced - pending on the right?

Downtown
by JeniY

Comment by DrAchoo:
Technicals: Excellent focus and DOF. The image is crisp and sharp. The sky has a tiny gradient which is good. Blown sky in B&W isn't the end of the world anyway. The B&W conversion is well done.

The feel: I think I'm going to say this a lot on my Street Photog comments. Street photography should do one of a few things: 1) capture the human condition either through an interesting scene or through the facial expressions captured in an everyday occurance. 2) capture nostalgia 3) capture an interesting geometric pattern (meaning the photo has abstract qualitites) which rises above the photo as a whole. Your shot, without people, cannot do the first. The snow and the light do give some nostalgic feelings and you do have the leading lines you mentioned (although they don't technically "lead" to anything).

The game: I gave this a 6 because you did capture some of 2 and 3. (although when voting I didn't go down my checklist which I only came up with for the purposes of these comments) I think people were looking for people, that's probably a large part of the 45 4s you got.

Downtown
by JeniY

Comment by violinist123:
I prefer black and white photography so you get my interest right off the bat. Couple issues with the shot that held it back. First, it is over sharpened. The little points showing up in the bricks and the jaggy along the edge of the wall lamp are signs of this. I would ease up a bit on the sharpening. Yes, in challenges people expect retina slashing sharpness, but there is a line there that you still don't want to cross.

Second thing is the composition. I do like the details of the wall and the leading lines. However everytime I look at this photo my eyes immediately move to the right side and my mind says 'wheres the rest of the photo'. I think a landscape crop would have worked better here as it would have presented a good chunk of the street along with the wall. Your eyes are naturally drawn to the brightest spot in the image and here that is the sky above the street, so you want to get something in that section of the photo for the eyes to feed on.

Really nice tones. Good job on the BW conversion.

DIM
by JeniY

Comment by Shermy:
"Dip in milk"? Or "diet in mind" :P

Good shot!