Of Dreams Past
by rajron

Comment:
Beautiful landscape but it doesn't say zen to me. (Though this would have been perfect for the black and white landscape challenge)

Not voting at this time.

Somewhere in Chicago
by needoptic

Comment:
I really like the lighting here. I look forward to seeing details on the setup

Sunday Reading: Mark 6
by northebound

Comment:
I'd have to agree with previous commenters. This light is really harsh and you have a lot of blown highlights. The fact that they are mainly in the text of the Bible makes them glaringly obvious unfortunately. The highlights on the left hand are blown out but its not quite so jarring.

Of course there is a but...

The cross you were trying to convey in the image was a great idea. Trying to get a defined shadow AND have nice soft light? yeesh.... I think that's a lighting problem that may be unsolvable at least using natural light. Maybe a reflector to provide some fill to the areas outside of the direct sunlight to balance out a bit and hopefully your scene would be less contrasty. It would probably involve a different pose and composition though.

To be honest, I think that the exposure lost you marks and the idea you were trying to pull off actually brought your score up.

Keep up the good work and keep the ideas coming.

Girls just wanna have fun
by Maggye

Comment:
This really needed to use the full image size allowed (800 px on the longest size).

Focus
by avalanche1030

Comment:
When my dog saw one of my balloons on the floor he went absolutely nuts. He kept barking at it and trying to play with it. Everytime he went near it the air currents would move it and he would start all over again.

Ain't pets and balloons fun? :)

0wned
by gloda

Comment:
Alright...I had have to laugh. I hope this isn't a self portrait :)

Zoom
by Prime_Time

Comment:
great abstract images that subtly meets the challenge.

UP
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
Great idea but the processing kills it unfortunately. Oversharpening has created halos and the saturation has been pushed too much

"Tree" Balance Training
by Coley

Comment:
lots of selective desaturated images. This is one of the best I've seen so far

Acrobatic
by Techo

Comment:
um...wow. Going to need to see the details on this one.