Wave Watching
by Manic

Comment:
I liked this photo from the start becasue of the incredible color striping going on here. If the person had been a bit more compelling to match up with the shear incredibleness (is that a word) of the ocean colors you would have been one of my favorites.

As it is your photo and "leaving" are fighting it out for my last top 10 spot!

Great photo.

Erasure
by BdaleBlueDemon

Comment:
Well..this started off as a 5 on monday..by monday eveining it was a 6..by tuesday a 7...wednesday an 8..now it is one of my 10 best this week.

I usually don't go for shutter tricks. I can appreciate them for sure but it just isn't one of my favorite things which is why you started out low.

But you see..you can't keep a good photo down. And this is a good photo. The subject, the lighting and the cigarette that stayed in pretty good focus sold me. The final straw that put you in one of my favorites? The shadow in the background stayed nice and crisp.

Truly a nice work of art here...

Eye Variations
by hokie

Comment:
Thanks for all the comments folks....

I agree with people who mentioned the sharpness of the image. I put this photo through another round of sharpening at 200% and .5 pixels and gained quite a bit of clarity without screwing the egdes up too bad.

This was an experimentation and the lighting effect coming from behind the photo was a nice surprise. Probably why I got caught offgaurd on the clarity..I was so struck by what the lighting did and liked it so much I didn't want to screw with the photo too much:-)

I wrote a "how did they do that" article for drew and langdon and there is some interesting stuff in there as well regarding architectural inspired art.

www.sidblu.com
by chariot

Comment:
Great use of a barrel distortion effect. I like the colors (you do know that blue and yellow are perfect compliments don't you?) and all the studio atmoshpere. One of my four 10's this week.

D.P. Monopoly
by dlh

Comment:
I knew that we were bound to see the king of boardgames here in a couple of shots and yours is very good. Like the use of black and white here, nice arrangment of the elements. A little washed out up top but sinces there are no importan elemtns there it doesnt hurt the shot or my vote.

Game On...
by Alecia

Comment:
Good lighting and nice use of Black and White to accent the shot. A little dark on my monitor around the dart and I think that may be a problem as I have my monitor set brighter than most. But overall a quality shot.

Preparing for blastoff! ... but captain, its fooseball not your spaceship.
by gja2600

Comment:
He's jsut so gosh darn cute but...less elements in background would be nicer.

Pluse..he seems a bit out of foucs. Maybe a tad faster shutter, big aperature but the light looks powerful enough.

His sweater colors match the foosball talbe well. Maybe him actually at the table handes with angles to cut a lot of background out to help focus attention on the child and the talbe more.

I like the elements and the huge potential this shot has.

Let the Games Begin!
by cameo

Comment:
Bit grainy, dark and out of focus but the idea was good. I like silouhettes.

Jumbled Jacks
by rumttugger

Comment:
Nice use of the metal jacks and the mirror effect.

Good clean shot give this simple compostion an art feel.

Battleship
by #1 Bronco Fan

Comment:
Interesting use of angles here.

Your camera seems to be letting you down with all the noise, Digital cameras are very sensitive to light conditions and less expensive digitals especially. You saved this photo at the 150k limit so I am assuming this is a problem with low lighting and too much gamma correction in the computer.

A good rule is that you can't really save bad lighting in photo editing by more than maybe a couple of steps before noise and other junk starts to mess with your photo. But good idea though.