Apple
by Wildpurple

Comment by bmartuch:
Interesting looking shadows.

Eye of the Storm
by Wildpurple

Comment by GeorgesBogaert:
I like this image. I don't know what it is.

Eye of the Storm
by Wildpurple

Comment by posthumous:
the crystal ball of abstraction where we forget things we used to know, miss things we used to see, and find new wisdom thereby.

Eye of the Storm
by Wildpurple

Comment by mefnj:
might have benefited from a crop to just the upper half or so

Eye of the Storm
by Wildpurple

Comment by onthecusp:
This one wowed me because, COOL!

Eye of the Storm
by Wildpurple

Comment by jim29028:
Plasma ball, I used to have one of those. Good subject for the challenge. Well positioned in the frame and I like the yellow glow around the ball.

4 Way Stop Sign
by Wildpurple

Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

I like the angle you shot the sign from, you filled the frame, and it is a truncated sign so it fits the challenge, and it's that universal shade of red so everyone knows it's a stop sign. It has great detail with all those little microreflectors in the surface. So why didn't this do better?

Honestly I feel that the main problem is that there is a lot of noise visible, mostly to the left of the image. Using denoise and then sharpening is a very tricky thing to do well, because the sharpening essentially brings back the noise you tried to get rid of!

Hope this helps

Susan

Severed Leaf
by Wildpurple

Comment by clickodak:
Nice composition I give 8

New Jersey Farms
by Wildpurple

Comment by tnun:
evocative light. lovely lines. everything felt.

Black & White Rose
by Wildpurple

Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

I see that I'm one of your 8s, I felt you deserved some extra kudos for entering a flower macro in a challenge dominated by things much bigger than flowers :-) Good comp and lighting, you used HDR to good effect and the b/w works surprisingly well. I would be a little careful in your post work, though, I can see sharpening 'jaggies' and those will cost you. In this case the effect around the droplets especially gives them a bit of a plasticky feel.

Denoise itself can do sharpening on its own, so if you have the original image, maybe just play with a little and just leave out the sharpening. Or do as you did already, but fade back the sharpening to about 50% and see what you think.

Hope this helps

Susan