ride on yellow and purple
by Gotchya

Comment by eloise:
The composition gives this shot a distant feel. Which may have been what you were going for, I don't know. :-> But the way it's so precisely square, and framed by the bracket, with the subject tiny, gives it a sort of frosty formality.

primary colors
by Gotchya

Comment by karmat:
Compositionally fine, but I don't think I find the yellow particularly effective.

primary colors
by Gotchya

Comment by autool:
this is just too much for me. digital defacing of my flag. 3

Cable Car Xing
by Gotchya

Comment by ursula:
From the Critique Club

Hello,

On first impression, this is a striking postcard. The text jumps out at you, as does the street-sign with graffiti. It was a daring move on your part to use this photo for the postcard challenge!

Graffiti first: On the one hand, including it makes San Francisco more real, perhaps even more "likeable", more like a place where the common person would feel comfortable. On the other hand, I think it's highly unusual to include a sign with graffiti in a postcard - and this cost you in the challenge. For myself, I'm not sure; I like it, then again, if I were a tourist in San Francisco I would think, "Well, that's a shot I can take myself, why do I need to buy it in a postcard?"

The grey sky is also daring - most postcards seem to aim for the perfect blue. You didn't. I must say, the grey goes beautifully with the buildings on this street, and gives the flavour of the city better than if it were blue. I like the light - the street is for the most part in shadow, but still bright. Nice.

Focus also is good, actually, there's hardly anything out of focus in this picture, just the trees and buildings in the way back.

The text is beautiful, bold, appropriate. And the lighter border (of the card, not the text) softens it just so.

My nitpick: the streetlight in the top right hand corner, I think I would have tried to keep it out of the photo.

Good work! Take care,

Ursula (uabresch)

orange waves
by Gotchya

Comment by cykhansen:
This was nice but spoiled by the ring shape at middle right.

primary colors
by Gotchya

Comment by GolferDDS:
I'm not sure that you meant this but the change of white to yellow in the american flag makes a political suggestion.

orange waves
by Gotchya

Comment by pollonos:
Nice, but that ring formation on the right looks strange.

primary colors
by Gotchya

Comment by kiwiness:
Nice work! You got your primary colors for sure. Did you use yellow lighting or did you get the effect through post processing?

orange waves
by Gotchya

Comment by tuzik02:
very interesting, i will be checking after the final results to see what it is, 7...

primary colors
by Gotchya

Comment by CLarson557:
I understand what you were trying to do with this by manipulating the colors or by using a filter to make the white stripes yellow. Although you were successful in meeting the challenge, it turned the flag into a displeasing color and very unnatural. I do like the ripples and shadows in it though.