Dark Kindred of Martha Carrier
by kiropractic

Comment:
Nicely set up and captured. Bet you had fun with that. Has that Addams Family look. :) Lighting from below is great which produces that nice upward looming shadow. Nothing is overexposed but there is a little grainyness on the right hand side subject's forehead and cheeks.

headed to bed
by neeneefortwo

Comment:
Decent silhouette of duck and ducklings. Nice concpt but some votes may think this does not convery the sense of darkness enough for THEIR taste. This image has great possibilities. The positives are the foreground grassy reeds and the reflective lighting off the rippling water and wake. Fetures holding it back are that is is way too small, the focus is too soft and the triangular object on the left bottom of the frame is distracting.

Darkness Cometh...
by sfarrell23

Comment:
Sunsets are the gateway to darkness so fit this callenge topic well and in an understandable way. Good capture of horizon lighting with sun below horizon. It is often hard to get that lighting right and retain decent lighting and detail at the top of the frame but you have done that well. Good use of the rule of thirds. The only defect is the haloing along the horizon edge. It could be removed with cloning.

In darkness, scare with a smile
by heydandy

Comment:
Nice concept, nice solid blacks. The smile of your subject is more like a happy smile rather than a diabolical smile as one might expect for an image of this type. Unsure if this is intended but the subject's eyes are not level. If intended a larger angle might be better, otherwise it should be straightened.

"At the sixth hour darkness came over the land. . ."
by lwphotography

Comment:
Very dark image, both actually and conceptually. Great concept. Meets the challenge exceptionally well. Ironically the blacks are not solidly black on my screen (which is well adjusted using a Spyder calibrator, btw) which makes it appear slightly washed out. Looks like it retains color noise that you might want to remove. Hard to say how you could display all the very dark detail in the image that prople could still see the eye and surroundings but you could try selective color where you blacken the blacks and whiten the whites just enough to give it a little more contrast but preserve the dark nature of the image. Good job here.

Dark Party
by Kaups

Comment:
Color is the striking feature of this image. Nice RGB (Red, green, blue). Blacks are decent. Obviously darkness means an evening conversation likely triggered by events of the day to you. That might seems obscure to some voters and they will be wondering what the conversation is about. The setting was most important to you when taking the picture but a lot of viewers would like to see the peopple closer and see the expressions on their faces and better understand what they are doing there. The wire across the sky is a distraction. The amount of lawn in the foreground may be more than needed. Image quality is decent.

Passing Through
by shutterphunk

Comment:
Excellent take on the challenge theme. Nice perspective. Good use of the rule of thirds and having a lot of black on the image conveys the sense of darkness well. The blur motion of the walker is a great idea but just wish we were a little closer to them to see that aspect better. This is very well done the way it is but the tunnel could be a little larger in the frame and still work.

Darkness, A Time For Change
by msimaging

Comment:
Interesting take on the challenge topic. Good perspective anddiagonals in image. Contrast is weak and focus soft.

Into The Darkness of the Forest
by drake217

Comment:
Nice green color, good concept and idea. For this challenge some voters may think you should have more of the darkness of the forrest in the image then you have. They may think the strait on perspective from a standing position is unimaginative. The black point of the image is not set properly. The significance of the person standing in the shade is not immeduiately apparent how it supports the theme.

If the image were taken from ground level closer to the forrest but still showing the bright sunshine on road and grass in forground and having the person walking away into it with a proper set black point would have a lot more impact.

Silver doors to pearly gates
by petrik

Comment:
Nice diagonal lines. Probably meets challenge for most people. The image score affected by these factors: Contrast low, sky color weak, lightness i background trees is a distraction and the chopped down tree with a prominent position in the left foreground is a major distraction.