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by meyers

Comment by RiderGal:
great use of shadow! You might get some angry comments on this.

Bridge Tower
by meyers

Comment by Artifacts:
Positives:
A nice wintery cityscape capture. I cannot describe why, but this captures the feeling of a big city(Chicago) in winter and that is its strength. Nicely done in BW to capture that feeling.

Perhaps it is because I have been through Chicago a couple times and have an appreciation for the city.

Technicals:
The technicals are good and exposure fine across the full range of luminosity. Composition wise there is nothing compelling about it, according to the 'rules', but I really like it anyway. It has lighting balance that works well an it has a technical feel to it, including sharpening, that cannot be denied as being good.

The challenge:
As a free study entry in challenges that have a lot of high quality entries this one suffers from 'subtlety'. It is to subtle to be appreciated in the time that most DPC voters have to devote to making a judgement.

This is a fine image!

I find it interesting that, like routerguy666's cityscape before, that this image has a statistical overabundance of 2s. Might be for a similar reason. It requires viewers to spend more time evaluating it to appreciate it's traits and typically the DPC voting process does not lend itself well to that.

Message edited by author 2007-03-08 19:06:44.

Bridge Tower
by meyers

Comment by Artifacts:
Positives:
A nice wintery cityscape capture. I cannot describe why, but this captures the feeling of a big city(Chicago) in winter and that is its strength. Nicely done in BW to capture that feeling.

Perhaps it is because I have been through Chicago a couple times and have an appreciation for the city.

Technicals:
The technicals are good and exposure fine across the full range of luminosity. Composition wise there is nothing compelling about it, according to the 'rules', but I really like it anyway. It has lighting balance that works well an it has a technical feel to it, including sharpening, that cannot be denied as being good.

The challenge:
As a free study entry in challenges that have a lot of high quality entries this one suffers from 'subtlety'. It is to subtle to be appreciated in the time that most DPC voters have to devote to making a judgement.

This is a fine image!

Placebo
by meyers

Comment by dreamy:
Usualy I doesn't like woody pictures and vote low for them
9 for this

but I realy like the humour in this picture and the title
I suppose that it's not very DPC/North America compaticle

I'm currious to see other voters comments and scoring

Placebo
by meyers

Comment by RobMcGee:
simplicity of the picture: +3
shadow of the title: -1
cut the toe: -1
use of woody: -1

Placebo
by meyers

Comment by jblaylockrayner:
Great emotion from such a wooden figure - Nice capture

Bridge Tower
by meyers

Comment by CapeSail:
Great B&W photo, nice processing

Placebo
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Comment by option:
Love it! I hope this is getting the religious types all riled up!

Bridge Tower
by meyers

Comment by neophyte:
Nice capture. I love this genre of photography and this is a nice example. It seems like a bridge I know in Boston. I'll check back to see.

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by meyers

Comment by J-Me:
Ok, this one made me chuckle........and that is "alternative medicine" for me! Love it!