realm of the vengeful woodsprite
by skewsme

Comment:
Lovely painting like effect. I wish I could capture images like these.

Mobilis in mobili
by LevT

Comment:
Great feel and flow. In my top three. Bumping up.

My Way
by galatia_n

Comment:
Love this shot. The blur of the people to the point of being phantom like is awesome. Bumping up in my top three.

The Boy in the Cellar.
by rooum

Comment:
Very nice work Clive. This one grabbed me right off the bat. In my top three for the challenge.

Son of a @*%#$!
by hawkeyefilms

Comment:
Hey David. I voted this a 7. I thought it was a humorous and creative take on the challenge and not what I was expecting to come across - which is a good thing IMO. The out of box thinking doesn't always garner you high scores, but I would assume you are getting some praiseworthy comments for the idea. Execution wise the lighting may be a bit harsh as the shadows are pretty sharp on your model. I think you could have fared well with a slightly heavy handed edit, making it a tad bit more cartoonish - maybe making the keys a bit more quickly recognizable by appearance rather than just the idea (with them laying flat and the harsh lighting they kind of go blah on the eyes). Your model has a great frustrated look. Overall though I am not sure if there was much you could do editing wise or anything to really effect the score much. The out of the box thinking is probably what is hurting you most - but again that is what I appreciated in this image.

The ancient art of seing fireworks
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Not sure what to do with this one. On one hand I love the image. Peculiar and pleasingly odd. On the other, even with a broad and liberal view of fireworks I am not getting it, even with the title. So I am going to pass on voting on this one. In a FS or different challenge where it wasn't so much of a DNMC I would score this well. But I hate to give it a DNMC vote here because I like it. So no vote. Curious to see your details and hoping you have shared your vision for the image.

Snail
by Melethia

Comment:
This would look lovely as a canvas print. Color tone and texture are beautiful.

Melonbythesea
by Melethia

Comment:
How delightfully odd. Gave me a smile.

Six Seconds
by kleski

Comment:
Hey Kevin. I actually scored this a 7 so I am caught off guard by your 4+ score. Sitting here looking at the image a little bit longer I can probably give some feedback as to why it would be scoring low even though some of the issues are not big ones for me in this issue. I liked the simplicity of this, the colors are pleasing, the curved tips on some of the streaks and the square crop. I like the almost abstract feel of it. I do wish there was a bit more black around the image as a whole to better frame in the burst. I may have also jacked up the saturation everywhere but the center. Ideas as to why it may be scoring low - I guess the streaks may seem a bit soft but probably the biggest issue is that from a composition perspective it is just a single burst with no other dynamic or interaction around it. Like you were saying - it is not a scene. Full scenes do score better because it gives more of a story. That it is just a centered shot is probably hurting it too - but again that falls into the dynamic of the scene. 5 of my top 16 images (including yours) were of just a burst or multiple bursts - the rest were scenes (all my very top scorers). In challenges like these that can become very repetitious very quick you need to offer up that WOW factor to grab consistently. If your image comes up more consistently at the end of peoples voting queue then you are probably in trouble. Luck of the draw there. While I gave this a 7 I would not have been surprised to see it mid 5.

A boy and his tree
by Neat

Comment:
I don't vote much anymore. I usually just look through the thumbs and see if anything catches my eye. If it does I might fave it, but I rarely leave comments anymore. Even in the threads I just troll. I faved you as photographer the other day because of your interaction in the comment discussion thread. I thought you handled yourself well and appreciated your concern. Then late last night - literally 15 minutes before rollover I decided to vote in the sepia challenge. Very glad I did. This image here had not caught my eye from thumbnail. It scored an easy 10 from me (and 10s arent usually easy from me). If this were my image of my boy I would have it framed huge on canvas and hanging in my living room because even though this is not literally a picture of my it certainly is a picture of my boy. There are some edit tweaks that I may have done personally to make it pop some more or be more like my own work, but really that isn't the point of this image or even the point of my vote. You captured a moment that I love that I can connect with. It brought a smile to my face and had me hang for a while last night as it does rightn ow typing along (I scroll up every so often to take another peek). And then to see that it was you that I faved as photographer who captured this image affirmed my decision to fave you as a photog (and looking through your portfolio gave me other reasons as well).

In shorter words - Lovely work. Thank you for sharing. ;)