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Comment by Givemeashot:
Man i want another Tatt!

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Comment by ShannonLee:
good capture of city life, definitely meets the challenge, i like the black and white... but there isnt anything about this shot that will really make me remember it

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Comment by skylen:
Good capture of bustling city life, but nothing is quite in sharp focus, it seems like the far streetlamp above and beyond the Hutchinson St. sign is probably the sharpest part of the image. My eye doesn't know where to settle.

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Comment by kevrobertson:
Fits the challenge to a tee. Focus is a little soft.
Good luck

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Comment by posthumous:
I like how the words phase into the people.

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Comment by lkn4truth:
Composition is ok. The choice of subject matter is ok. The image quality is ok. Could have been a little more creative. - 5

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Comment by melismatica:
Good possibilities but ultimately this is a ho-hum capture for me. There really isn't anything that draws my interest. The focus needs to be much sharper (blurring of movement is okay but the stationary objects need to be nice and crisp).

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Comment by DrAchoo:
It seems a common theme that images which score at 5 or below lack contrast. Also, in a picture like this (and a challenge like this), I really think about B&W. The color isn't helping too much here, so get rid of it. I liked a B&W conversion using a majority of the blue channel. (if you are using PS, just click ctrl-3 to see what it looks like). I also decreased brightness by -10 and upped contrast by +20. Finally a polarizer might have reduced the glare of the bricks a bit and brought a little more color out.

As far as the challenge, I think the picture suffers a bit because there are competing patterns (the curved bricks, the bench slats and the brick wall). The winners tended to have a picture which had one predominant pattern we could latch onto. Here we aren't sure where to concentrate our attention.

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Comment by iluvlife:
Wish the floor was more contrasty

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Comment by hotpasta:
seat looks a little too chopped off as does the pillar