The Sk8er
by LadyK

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Commenting as part of my Team Suck duties...

First... welcome back to the fold after serving your suspension...

A good capture, however, I think you've tried too hard to make it look like HDR... the overstauration, the haloing, the black grittiness... while all these are characteristics associated with HDR, they're not things that improve the image. I think there's stuff HDR processing can bring to an image w/o having to adopt these HDR cliche elements (IMO).

The Golden Age Of Steam
by SteveJ

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A good image. A little over saturated for my liking and I think it might have done better in voting with a tighter crop (top and bottom). Details are good, and you've the details in the smoke are brilliant.

Sammy
by see

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Commenting as part of my Team Suck duties...

Great capture, and given the right challenge, this would have fair a lot better, but this doesn't lend itself to HDR (IMO). Colours are a little flat, and while I rate it as one of the images features, the lens flare probably hurt your score in the end too. Oh... also could have cropped just a tab more off the bottom to lose the white bit in the bottom right.

Ye shall not eat of it
by posthumous

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Commenting as part of my Team Suck duties...

I think the biggest issue with this image is the centred composition... that and the fact that it doesn't look HDR enough perhaps, though your faux-HDR processing did a decent job of giving the clouds a HDRish feel. I'd ask you not to give up on HDR... I think there's a lot of good Team Suck and the like could do, artistically, with HDR.

Van Gogh's Choice
by Emerkaza

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The composition and colours of this shot are good, however, the processing has left it looking very flat and unnatural... there's also a little too much going on above and behind the main flower which distracts the viewer away from the main subject.

Wind
by colorcarnival

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I commented on this during voting, and I have to now say, this is by far the most under rated, under appreciated image of the challenge, in that I think it deserves to finish MUCH higher, score MUCH higher than it did in the end. I think 6.8+ is more like where it deserved to be which would have put you in the top 10... in my books... even with the issues I highlighted in my original comment.

I love the composition... I love the colour of the sky. Hell, I like this so much, I think it deserves a fav.

quietude
by skewsme

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Commenting as part of my Team Suck duties...

I love this photo and am surprised it didn't do better in the challenge. I have no idea why, but perhaps b/c it may have been, as you said, not HDR-y enough. Shame. Composition, detail, colour... all wonderful, although, perhaps not enough colour for the DPC audience. That said, I wouldn't change a single thing in the image. Love it.

edelbrock
by krnodil

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Nice image, though I think I'd have preferred it in colour. The effect of the chrome may have been lost a little by going to B&W with this, IMO...

Energy of Pain
by Photologist

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I really love the clouds, composition and colours in this shot and the details you've managed to get in the sand with your HDR processing. I feel the ONE thing that hurt this image was the pixelation (from sharpening perhaps?) around the structure... as your eye is naturally drawn to the subject, and then the pixelation just really jars. I reckon this would have easily been a top 10 if not for that one little issue... but having just looked at the other comments, perhaps its just me that the pixelation is an issue with. Anyway... I'd love to see this if you reprocessed it with the comments it got in mind.

Wash Day
by vawendy

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I like the minimalism of this image, and love the balance it has. The window and the tub (?) in the table... superbly balanced. This is an excellent example of where HDR can be used well. I think this may have suffered a little from the voters that punish anything with too much of the HDR black/grit or haloing as "overprocessed". Despite this, it's done quite well. Congratulation on an excellent HDR entry.