School Days: Prom
by kellyrc01

Comment by hotpasta:
almost a 1950' look...nice idea

School Days: Prom
by kellyrc01

Comment by Pug-H:
A more unusual viewpoint of the traditional prom photo. The one the right, whose shoes a cut off too much in the picture, are cut off very sensibly in the heel department. ;-Þ (That is, unless the heels have sunk into the lawn....)
Vote 12

School Days: Prom
by kellyrc01

Comment by Gnarf:
funny legs. reminds me of a flock of cows.

School Days: Prom
by kellyrc01

Comment by Germaine:
Sorry, but to me, people's feet just aren't that interesting.

School Days: Prom
by kellyrc01

Comment by Retroesque:
WONDERFUL, Wonderful, wonderful!

I simply LOVE this!

Reflections in the Water
by kellyrc01

Comment by littlefish:
ok

The Lone Red Flower
by kellyrc01

Comment by Artifacts:
Positives:
A decent floral desat in a soft focus mode with a supportive black and white background.

Technicals:
The black and white treatment has good tones and full range from pure black to pure white without under or over exposed areas. The color boundary to the B&W is well done. Nice idea to put a red flower with white ones... makes the desat part a lot easier to do.

Interesting this image is so softly focused given it is taken at f/20, perhaps this is because you were in macro mode or possibly camera motion suring the 1/60th second exposure. It has those spotty areas that look slightly out-of-focus which is incompatible with actual distance that we sometimes see with digital images. Not sure how that happens but think it is an artifact of digital image capture.

The red is a little too intense for the composition. Looks like you might have saturated it in post processing. The reddish refelction on the white flower below the red acts as a distraction.

The composition is on the weak side, kinda snapshot-like.

The Challenge:
It meets the challenge but most voters probably thought it a gratuitous floral image so voted it lower. Voters probably wanted to see a reason for the use of desat and did not find it in this composition. Others probably felt it lacked the ever popular "wow" factor so voted it lower for that as well. Some voters may have thought the reddish reflection off the white flower below the red one was color bleeding and marked it down as a technical error. All those reasons combined are probably why it scored below average.

I scored this image 6. That means I felt it was below average but not a "failure". I felt the image was OK but the red was to intense and the reddish reflection on the white flower was a distracting flaw. In my opinion your picture is not "bad". If it were I'd have given it an even lower score than the average DPCer did. I usually vote the "bad" pictures lower than other DPCers and the "good" ones higher.

Suggestions:
Here are some things you might try. Reduce the overall saturation of the red flower so it doesn't hit the viewer over the head then use selective color to darken just the blacks in the red flower to give it more contrast and definition. Clone out the red color from the white flower.

Another thing you might consider is cropping it differently to center the red flower at one of the rule of thirds(ROT) intersection points for greater visual impact. Cropping a lot from the left side to position the red flower centered on the upper left ROT intersection might look quite nice.

Waiting for Sunday
by kellyrc01

Comment by purpleflutterby13:
Ok, so it's a nice enough shot of an empty church. Past that, I don't really get the concept, which makes it just another church shot (nice but unexceptional). The B&W does work well with the title, as it makes the place look sort of static and dormant.

Waiting for Sunday
by kellyrc01

Comment by Monique64:
Because the shot is so symmetrical it would have looked a little better if you had centred the shot or cropped a little more from the right hand side.

yellowdaisy
by kellyrc01

Comment by jblaylockrayner:
Nice feel to this.