Mines Gravity
by maralomar

Comment:
Nice perspective and good composition.

The image is slightly low contrast. An autocontrast adjustment will make this image look a little brighter. It is always a good idea to try autocontrast after you are finished processing to see if your final image is contrasted properly. That does not work with every image but does give you an idea if you might need further processing to get the final image perfect.

You might consider darkening the right side of the cloud at the top about 20-30% with burning to make it more dramatic. There ara couple dark specks on the image, probably caused by a dirty detector, that should be cloned out. You might consider darkening the color of blue in the sky for added interest.

Free world
by heida

Comment:
This is a fantastic composition. You are a genius to have come up with this combination of lighting, fantasy action and color. Good use of the rule of thirds.

Reviewers will easily connect with your image.

It is ever so slightly overexposed but that seems to work very well with your fantasy illusion. The bubbles are a little hard to see at first but are a nice addition.

This will be a top placing image in this challenge.

When boat masts take the world over...
by blanceric

Comment:
Interesting composition and sky color. Fine detail shows up very clearly.

The way reviewers react to the sky will determine how well this image scores. If they like it it will do well. If they don't it will not.

A couple suggestions. Apply noise reduction to the sky and clone out remaining white specks to give it a very solid look. The visible electronic noise it now has is a distraction.

The thick wire on the far left at the very top should be cloned out. Unlike all the other major wires in the image this one's counterpart is not visible. That makes it appear unbalanced. The easiest thing to do is get rid of it.

Overall this is a pretty good picture.

Imagining the Summit
by neophyte

Comment:
Good capture and decent quality photograph. Well composed with eye appealing colors.

Some reviewers will view this as a 'kid' picture more than a fantasy world and score it lower.

The image is a little on the low contrast side. It does not appear to have a proper black point set. Adjusting that will give the image more 'pop'. The clouds on the lower left are overexposed.

The Timekeeper
by Gabriel

Comment:
A creative and eye appealing composition. Perspective works and the general image technical quality id good. The rust and gold tones stand out very well and are appealing to the eye.

This image fits the challenge very well.

On the technical side there are a few hot spots on the gold items and there is some digital 'jaggies' on some of the strait edges.

verall this is a good image and probablty finish high.

Smoke Flowers
by Mona

Comment:
The smoke is nice with a lot of detail. The noise level in this image is low which is good for a lower light level image.

It is one of those images that makes the viewer wonder exactly what it is. It is not a bad idea to make viewers think, good photographs always do that, but it needs to leave easy clues to lead the viewer to care about what it might mean. This image probably does not do that for some viewers and they will score it lower.

The white objects, which look like popcorn, are overexposed. That is a major distraction for the composition since they are the main focal point the eye is immediately drawn to.

Dream Forest
by vasilkovaya

Comment:
Composition, framing and the idea is OK.

Your attempt to use blur to simulate a fantasy world will not work well for most reviewers and this image will score poorly. It might have worked better if you could have taken your picture with a longer exposure time on a tripod to have most everything but the natural movement of the people and trees be sharp and clear. Your idea just did not work. Sorry.

Strange Orbit of a Strange Planet
by sfalice

Comment:
Meets the challenge and is ga generally well executed capture. Solid blue background works well. Framing and composition are very good. Exposure and lighting mostly good. Shallow depth of field works well.

This image is pleasing to the human eye. It has a overexposed area o the close metal spiral near the upper left center of the frame, but it is not bad.

This is a very, very clean and simple image. It should get a very high score. Great job!

Planet Mars
by arnit

Comment:
Great work with what likely is a much more mundate original. The clouds are distinct, dramatic, well focused and there are no overexposed areas. The way you have added a lot of viewer interest to the composition through lighting post-processing on the hillls is terrific.

This will meet the challenge for most reviewers.

The only technical flaw is the transition border between horizon and sky. It has haloing. It is common to have haloing show up when sky and ground separately have global processes applied to them. You can easily clone out that defect by selecting the sky only and expanding it a pixel or so if needed to include all the edge halloing and quickly cloning the edge to remove the defect. I always save selections by name so they can be brought back later specifically for this purpose.

Overall this is an excellent image that should score very well.

Kosciól Mariacki
by labuds

Comment:
What a terrific capture! Detail and clarity is fabulous. Colors are amazing. Perspective and composition is superior. This baby has ribbon potential written all over it.

One would hope that reviewers would not think of this as a smack against religion being a "fantasy world" but, sadly, some probably will.

Technically there is only one small item to consider. The two statues in the upper left part of the frame don't seem as well focused and oddly out of place with respect to the rest of the image and it is a little darker on that side. You might consider cropping them out of the composition when puttng this up on DPC prints. :)

This is an absolutely fantastic image! Kudos for a great job.