Stag: Interrupted
by FrankRobinson

Comment:
Had great potential, but so over sharpened IMO his face looks like stone. Not voting yet. Will have to come back to this later in the week for another look.

Fall comes to New England
by wildiris

Comment:
Beautiful Autumn scene. Love the colors obviously, but I also think you nailed the shutter speed and got it just right. 9

lanterns
by v5planet

Comment:
I like it. 6

I Believe I Can Fly
by bcrants

Comment:
Another image I gave a 9. Excellent capture. Congrats!

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
by Judi

Comment:
Great job Judi. I gave this a 9. Loved the orange tone of the sky and Sun as well as your silhouette. Congrats!

Soar
by stantheman1313

Comment:

Originally posted by Bear_Music: Congrats on your first ribbon. I was thinking, as I voted on this, "I wish it were vertically oriented, this looks awkward..." but I guess that didn't hurt you :-)

I called this to ribbon, and I'm glad it did. I do agree with Robert here though that the landscape orientation was a little awkward to the eye. Not that it's a bad thing because it can add to an image as much as take away from it. In this case it more than likely helped as you got your ribbon which again...I knew you would. LOL. :) Congrats!

Soar
by stantheman1313

Comment:
I like this a lot. Great perspective on the jump as well. Should place very high and probably even ribbon. Good luck. 9

Up..Up...Saved!!
by Trompie

Comment:
You should have turned the goal around and shot your subject front lit by the sun. It would have been more effective and you lose a lot with the blocked shadows in the trees and the washed out sky. Not voting.

Colour Inside the Lines
by hotpasta

Comment:
Well, it's one rule that I think is a bit over the top and should be addressed. I may be wrong, but I feel it was probably DQ'd because of the black border you added which is for the most part distinguishable around the actual image, but on the edge where your hand is and the border meets your black board it no longer looks like a border. At least it doesn't on my calibrated monitors. It has to clearly be defined as a border. If I add a border to my photos it's always a small black border, but I won't add it if there is a lot of black on any of the edges where it gets lost as it does here.

It's a pretty silly rule, and I agree with most if not all the rest, but to ME...if you can clearly see a black border (or sometimes white depending on the photo) on 3 of the edges it's pretty darn safe to assume that there is a border on the fourth side of the photo even if it blends in with the background. How many people add a border to only three sides of a photo. Answer...none. People either border two sides or the whole image.

I've seen it time and time again on here where a black border added to a black background gets a DQ. If you had added a white border for instance the photo would still have a blue ribbon next to it. Again, maybe there is some other reason that it was DQ'ed that I'm not seeing, but that's my take.

Great photo BTW...

Dave

another view of the Golden Gate Bridge
by supergold

Comment:
As a Navy veteran I've seen the bottom of the GG probably a hundred times or more. Somewhere in my archives I have a ton of Kodak 110 exposures. This photo would have been better had you opened up the shadows more in RAW or Lightroom. When I was a sailor I took those same shots for the same reasons as you apparently did....to show a different side or view of an otherwise iconic and often photographed American treasure. Sorry it didn't work for me this time, but I encourage you to keep trying to get "THE" shot from this vantage point. No vote this time.