The invisible-man & metal woman
by MEJazz

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Voted earlier coming back to comment.

While many will see this as a shoe-horn I am going to put forth that you have the foundation to build upon. The title carries the picture more when it should and it should be the other way around. "Show, don't tell". Hmmm, how to show that this woman might be more than a statue and there is an invisible man standing next to her...One thought is to have taken separate pictures of a person wearing glasses standing next to her holding out flowers to the statue, a picture of someones eyes, and another picture of someone holding glasses/sunglasses in the same orientation & position as the previous shot of someone holding out the flowers to the statue. Then it is just the selecting the objects from the other shots (eyes, glasses and flowers), feathering the selection to avoid hard edges, copying and placing them in separate layers over the main photo which would be this one. You could have those flowers hovering in mid-air in one layer. The eyes would be resized to fit over the eyes of the statue and opacity turned down to maybe 80% just enough to show through to suggest this is human woman who morphs into metal. And lastly the selected glasses hovering where a man's face would be. Thus we see a courtship of an invisible man giving the gift of flowers to his lady of metal. Just a thought.

My Secret Weapon
by sfalice

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Oh I get it....I think. This is the last sight the bad guys (if you are a hero) or your enemies(if you are a villain) see as they look up to the sky before the your superpowerful, incineration beam vaporizes them. But then since you have placed me in the position of looking up at it then that mea- *zap*.....

I think the image has potential - the biggest thing that is a detractor is the color of the sky. Red for fire or a deep blue for a laser would improve the concept of a deadly zap beam...if I am correct in my reading of the image.

FireFaceDPC
by OverflowStudios

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Voted earlier coming back to comment.

This makes me think of a cross between Ghost Rider and the old cover of Piers Anthony's Book called Death Rides a Pale Horse where a skeletal Death is driving a fancy gold sports car. I wish the action and main subjects are in better focus but I do get the concept that the Super is lashing out his chain whip to apprehend the bad guys. I get the feeling that you wanted to present the action as happening now and there is movement in the scene. I think it would be stronger if the blur showed a forward or directional motion in the wheels and the front of the car. The other thing that I think would help boast the appeal a bit more is the flames on the skull take on more of that engulfing/bonfire aspect that one sees with GhostRider. Selecting a picture of a flaring flame, feathering to avoid hard edges and then overlaying it in another layer would/could accomplish that 'effect'.

Multiple Man has multiple powers including body cloning, phasing, sonic yelling and loving hockey!!
by RyanW

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Voted earlier coming back to comment.

I think that this photo composition suffers from being way too busy. Showing a super that has multiple powers in a movie short can work because you have the span of time to do so. Placing them all into one frame/single photo makes it cramped and overwhelming for the viewer. I think you could have just stayed with just presenting one power and done well with just that.

Now, effectively capturing sonic powers in a photo-manip is challenging. The concept shows promise it just needs a little more work. The sonic power on the far right does not work so well as that it is a shapeless mass that seems to just hang there. I do like how you presented it in the center frame as a circle that has concentric waves. That is a great way to show off the sonic powers. I do suggest that the center of the sonic circle best be at his mouth to better show where the power is resonating outward from. Because it would obscure his face with the tight circles, one of two things could be done. The first is increase the spacing between the rings like this example of Black Canary's Sonic power . The second is to have the model pose with a side profile rather than directly facing the camera. In side profile, you could place the sonic circles extending out from the mouth in greater sizes as it gets further away from the point of origin. Again, the idea and concept has promise it just needs a little more work.

Up, up, and AWAY!
by nickyb

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Not voting but commenting on this one.

Either this got chopped in upload or this is a very sneaky & clever 'tell but don't show' composition demonstrating this as an unfinished work(i.e. the Expert Editing was used to grab the same DPC color and cover the picture with a 3/4 grey block) You are either telling us to 'use your imagination' to fill in the blank or disaster struck and your entry did not fully load. Either way, I hope you post to the outtakes to show us what we 'missed'.

Mom isn't going to like this
by Mike

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Voted earlier coming back to comment.

The expression on the little boy's face is truly all boy. I can see his thought processes as he looks at the web shooting out of his hand, "COOL!" Yeah, Mom's not going to like this but this is so coooooollllllll! :-) A fun image. My critique is that I wish the backdrop was not so plain and had some connection to the boy and action going on...maybe his room and him shooting his web to pick up a toy on the floor. Just something that would complement the subject and action going on.

Dolly, with her demon-slaying kick-through-the-ball superpower
by herfotoman

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Voted earlier coming back to comment.

I like the moody highlights and shadows in your B&W tones. The action of her kicking the soccer ball and seeing the concentration in her stance is good. The B&W presentation makes this a very artsy shot I feel. I feel that this shot would have done better in a themed challenge more suited to the subject/action taking place such as children, sports, action, or B&W. In those challenges the picture speaks for itself. That is it's strength. Most of the times I take a firm stance with "Show, don't tell". The title is what is working really hard to show a connection to the Superpowers challenge. This picture relies too heavily on the 'tell' portion to make the connection. A different challenge more suited to what highlights the action/subject in the picture would allow this picture to shine (and most likely be more favorably accepted by the general audience)

The Power of Gigantism - Now keep cleaning, minions!
by JamesDowning

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Voted earlier coming back to comment.

Great detail on the eye and the small man. The pose and position of the man is good but something just is just not quite right with it totally integrating into the scene. Maybe it is the lighting where the highlight & shadows fall on the eye/face don't quite match up with the cleaning man. I do like that you added a reflection of the cleaning man's arm on the white of the eye that helps with placing him there...it's just that lighting I think is the issue of making it gell 100%. Heh, this is just a suggestion - it would have been a nice little detail if the cleaning man had a bucket attached to the ladder that clearly reads "Visine" (it get's the red out is the jingle).

Xirtam Matrix
by Judi

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Voted earlier coming back to comment.

Matrix forwards and backwards;-) A battle of super natural strength and leaps. I get the sense that the two subjects are battling it out in a digital grid. While the composition captures some of the 'feel' of Matrix, I think the action could be a little better. The gent on the right has a martial arts type pose with foot extended. The girl on the left not at all - she looks like she is floating or dancing to the center. Both her feet are tucked under her. If this is truly a combat scene, she would be looking directly at her opponent and have a defensive/offensive
battle' stance, but she does not.

The Touch of Life
by mrchhas

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Voted earlier coming back to comment.

Extreme healing powers to bring back the dead is indeed super. I think the 'double' exposure showing the dead come back to life was done well. The idea is good and solid it is just that I think that more attention to detail would improve the shot more. First off the deep shadows are rather odd and distracting (and given the positions of the healer the hands of the risen dead would not be on the wall that far back because the healer would block that shadow). While taking the shot, I would recommend moving the subject/objects several feet away from wall so that you do not get those deep shadows. My second critique is the possibility of the deceased staying perfectly flat on top of the thin top edge of the sofa is highly unlikely. Half on and half off would be possible but much more likely the deceased would have fallen off. As a friend would say to me at this point, "shut up, it's magic!":-) But magic cannot explain everything and the better you ground your supernatural with some reality the better the believability will be. Lastly, I think the position of the healer's hand should be just a little higher to rest directly over where the viewers will instantly recognize as the heart. The position of the hand as it is now is not near the heart and if it was the idea of a deliverance of the spark of life would be stronger.

Oh, and btw, I do like the addition of the old style broom as that I feel it is a subtle reference to the broom scene in the classic Disney's Sorcerer's Apprentice:-)