Reflected Glory
by JacquiD

Comment:
I get a feeling this is taken in some Icelandic church, this looks very familiar.

Through a Glass Darkly
by raish

Comment:
Sorry but this is too dark/noisy for my taste, I would have liked it better if the whole image was brighter and more crystal clear.

Death of a King
by tngrndream

Comment:
Not really crazy about the red hue in this one, I think I would have liked it better with a more neutral hue, I get the reference, red=blood=death but still, not to my taste. Nice idea though!

outerworld
by ordinaryangel

Comment:
Seems slightly off focus, and I mean the top one, not the reflection, also I am not really fond of the light glare reflection in the ball but I like the composition and use of negative space.

Fairie Magic
by sunrise

Comment:
Try making the photo as close to 640 pixles next time, it will lead to a better score.

ROCK ON!
by kgeary

Comment:
To be brutally honest, I would say it placed pretty much where I think it should have placed. There is pretty much nothing really wrong with the shot, just all not that interesting.

The fact that it was not set up doesn´t matter one bit to me and frankly, wether it was or not is irrelevant, all that matters is if it "appears" to be setup and I kindof think that is the case here. The lighting is not bad but hardly good either. The composition is good however and I like the choice of DOF and I personally think it met the challenge, I do suspect though that there were a lot of voters that didn´t think so since it didn´t have any circular highlights in it, there was a huge discussion over this in the forums.

To improve this photo, both as a photo and your score here, you would have needed better stage lighting, probably a black bacround behind the drummer, I would have used a longer lens or a bigger aperture to cast him even more out of focus and perhaps finding a slightly better viewpoint on this, maybe composing it with a tilt to it, having the guitar players hands up in the right corner and the drummer in the lower left corner.

All in all I must say I would have given this a 5 and not commented, opting to go straight to the next photo. I know I am being a bit brutal here and I am sorry if I am hurting your feelings but I hope you value an honest opinion over a brown nosing one.

I do like your thinking process behind this photo and I really encourage you to stay here and keep entering challenges, most people (including me) take about 10-20 challenges to figure out what does well here so please, keep at it.

I also put this comment in the thread you opened here

Bokeh Rising II
by 2mccs

Comment:
Congrats!

Moonlight...
by gipomontesanto

Comment:
Congrats on the ribbon, too bad it will be disqualified if what you are saying about the dust spot is true :(

Well you´ll just have to get another one then :)

Confluence
by Cutter

Comment:
One down, two to go, I think you can do it ;) The WPL2 will certainly help, I think the mag 7 collected 10-12 ribbons last time. Congrats dude!

red skies at night
by Rikki

Comment:
LOL! Jason was so intent of catching up to us in the ribbon race so I just thought it was SO funny seeing your name on the front page at the same time as his. Congrats dude, I gotta say I didn´t like this as much as the majority of the voters, gave it a 6 but fortunately different people have different tastes and still a 6 from me means better than average. Now I really got to put my foot down on the gas petal, it simply will not fly you having more ribbons than me :)