The Guitar Man
by whiterook

Comment:
I am afraid you are not going to draw the crowd nor steal the show with this one :-)

Safe and Secure
by Charlene

Comment:
Very nicely done. Grain, duotone and softness work very well here.
I regret the senseless tendency of dpc voters to over-rate razor-sharpness, noislessness and eye-blinding saturation.
In the real world of photography you must make choices like the one you did, depending on the story you are trying to tell.
The same people who have voted 5- would have probably voted 7+ for this photo if the challenge was "grain". That means many voters will not see beyond the tip of their nose unless they are forced to.

Message edited by author 2008-02-14 03:16:19.

the Great Outdoors
by mpeters

Comment:
you were robbed!!..this should have ribbonned
great shot!!!

Worried
by JaviZ

Comment:
I think I've seen this beauty before :-)

Moorish Temple in Snow
by Charlene

Comment:
You are getting better at controlling your exposures!!. This is well exposed, maybe 1/3 f stop low, but it could be corrected with curves an levels. Too bad there were not interesting clouds in the sky. With that lens you could try a wider composition at 18mm to get some ground. Maybe you did but there were some ditracting elements you did not want to show.

It was Big, Yellow and Scary
by JeniY

Comment:
not the prettiest image...but the strongest concept fot this challenge...very well done...10!!

Going to the Harbor
by Tom

Comment:
r u 300 years old? :-)

the Great Outdoors
by mpeters

Comment:
congrats for the blue..definetily the best in show!!!...10

The Great Leap
by Charlene

Comment:
Too bad it was the same idea used by a few others. I am sure that has afected the score.
About possible improvements:
*better if one of the leather seats was not intersecting one of the poles.
*a bit shallower dof to isolate the main subject a bit more from the bg.
*duotone works fine but it eliminates the use of color to isolate main subject from bg, so some S/H adjustment could have been made to avoid the merging.
*a little tighter crop on top and left would have helped to get more detail at 640px dpc.

Message edited by author 2008-01-30 20:15:19.

Captivity
by BHuseman

Comment:
congratulations for this wonderful image Ben!! Il like the title and the duotone processing as well.
I think it had a good chance to ribbon in a regular free study.