Shades of my city
by bobdaveant

Comment:
This is excellent composition. But I personally have trouble with images where the horizon angle is wrong. (You can use the measuring tool and info pane in PS to get the exact angle for correction if you weren't aware.) This one looks to me rotated a degree or so clockwise and as such is very distracting. Otherwise it's an excellent shot. 8. Good luck!

Who Framed Mt. Fractulous?!
by gruvin

Comment:
Thanks for all your comments.

I'm embarrased about the frame. It really does flatten out the contrast! Thing is, I put that on to enhance the contrast on a black, full screen display without a second thought that the DPC background is neutral grey. Doh! Foolish of me.

In hindsight, the crop should have been much tighter at the mercy of the symetry I had aimed for while taking the shot. That might have given it more of a macro feel - but I was working on the "or at least extreme close-up" aspect of the challenge description. (That "rock" is a piece of wood about two inches tall. The foreground tree is a one inch high weed clipping.) The image as a whole does not make much of that obvious. A flaw to be sure.

"Fractal" was about the shapes. The shape of the house's roof and that of the "rock", the shapes of the tiny foreground tree and the large background tree (and that they are both "trees".)

I think I tried too hard on this. I was trying to get too much out of one picture. I should have just let it flow I think. The "KISS" principal maybe.

Message edited by author 2004-12-06 21:54:40.

Late Night Talks
by TerryGee

Comment:
Excellent composition. Was it planned? The grain is great. This must have been posed to get such a clear shot at low loght levels. Well done! 8.

Daddy's Girl
by debitipton

Comment:
Great family shot! Unfortunately the high brightness and possibly compensated contrast is washing out the girls arm and he face. With those aspects improved I'd have given this a nine, at least. For now, a 7. Good luck!

High and Dry
by orussell

Comment:
Perfect light, contrast. Perfect horizon angle (very important to me). Excellent ablance. I love this shot. 10. Well done and good luck!

Sword In the Stone
by Jas

Comment:
INteresting composition. I generally like this, but feel the brightness is too low and the contrast too high. On my screen the chin is almost completely lost in the dark creating a "stare zone" distraction. (The brain wants to see what it can not quite see. Well mine does anyhow :) Still, I like the composition and camera angle etc dso much I'm giving you a 7. Good luck! (Might be the Scotsman in me deep down somewhere! )

Moody
by space amoeba

Comment:
I feel the focus should have been most clear on the hands and book. Adjusting contrast down to bring the short shadow to the left alittle (of image) and also decrease the brilliance of the light just under the book might have also improved this image. 6. Good lcuk.

i do
by sacredspirit

Comment:
Good shade and framing. Butit's just way to dark for me. Not sure I understand the title either (but that doesn't really count.) If lightened, yo might need to reduce contrast slightly to keep the far leg in the "gray zone". Did you have your computer screen turned up high brightness in low light perhaps? it's so easy to do with black and white images. What a shame. 6.

Can´t wait...
by LalliSig

Comment:
Lovely pose and a rare opportunity. Great angle and framing. I felt the contrast was little too high washing out shades on the chest and near shoulder areas. (This would look softer on a CRT monitor.) 8. Good luck!

Simply black and white
by Cobra517

Comment:
Simply 9. Nice.