Gerber Daisy
by amcfoto

Comment:
This is very nicely shot. The color gradient from center to outer edge shows off the light very well. Would like to see the center off-centered with a really low dof allowing something behind to fill in with a complimentary color and add some artistic interest to it, but is very nice as is.

Did you use a tripod or handhold this one?

Seagull_2334.jpg
by 2Shay

Comment:
I like this image just the way it is. The blurring of the wings is minimal and the detail in the rest does not appear to have been over 'neat imaged'

Mr. Hitchcock
by alanbataar

Comment:
Concept: Good Idea, not well executed. Comes off cheap (toys and shadow boxing)
Composition: Lighting seems good, but the use of shadowcasting as a sil will hurt this image. Shadows themselves are uneven and come off blurry.
Challenge: Hurt by shadowcast as opposed to backlighting.

I'm a barbie girl, in a barbie world/Life in plastic, it's fantastic/...undress me everywhere blabla
by Tiberius

Comment:
Concept: Humor: Stands even without the title, but is hurt by the composition.
Composition: Backlit background, shows too much fabric detail which becomes an element of the shot and hurts the overall. Crop/Negative space shows too much of the distracting fabric.
Challenge: Yes definitely. In fact redeeming quality here is the red cast on the main subject that lends a bit more interest to that area.

Calunga
by CEJ

Comment:
Concept: Good subject, very bad background choice.
Composition: The screen would have been better cropped to show no evidence of the window sill.
Challenge: Yes, definitely, but the background is so harshly lit and ultimately ugly as to detract from the potential that this image could have achieved.

Up Against A Brick Wall
by dphillips

Comment:
Challenge: Sil or Shadowcast? The very question will hurt this image, although technically a sil, in the 'purist's' minds, this will cost you.
Composition: There is an uneven lighting top to bottom that causes some distraction and lends a yellowish cast to part of the image.
Concept: Fails on interest level, but does not hurt or help the overall.

late night landing
by ShutterPug

Comment:
Concept: Nice idea, but composition detracts too much.
Composition: Good placement of subject and light, but very oof, with light streaming through the wings, hurting the challenge topic. Blur factor on background and subject make this seem very overprocessed on a ho-hum image.
Challenge: Almost. Too much light/detail in the subject.

Silhouette Memorial
by zagman

Comment:
Concept: Nice Idea, but fails in the composition.
Composition: Backlit by what could be a monitor, replica buildings come off cheap and the background is not realistic. Centered subject here could work much better with a different crop-ratio or orientation.
Challenge: Not enough dark where there should be. Too much detail in the buildings.

Blue Mood & Moon
by Mona

Comment:
Subject: Torn on this one. It is minimalist and well balanced due to crop, but seems less than interesting which detracts from the whole.
Concept: Good Idea, perhaps the division (space) between the two is what is causing me to not appreciate this image as I should.
Challenge: Bit too much detail in the top portion of the branch. Almost side-lit which does not lend well to the concept of a sil.

safety first (barbed-wired fence)
by redpanda

Comment:
Challenge: Yup its a sil.
Concept: Is there one? This appears to be a happenstance.
Composition: Balanced in the thirds concept
Subject: Could be interesting but it is so (thin) minor to the background that it is easily overlooked. On one side, the wire starts a wave pattern that if repeated a few more times would stand on its own, but it ends prematurely into a cacophany of other shapes that hurt the overall image and cause it to be less interesting than its potential.