Marquee
by banmorn

Comment:
One of those shots that seems to have more impact as a thumbnail than as a full image - I think there are graduations in the tone across the frame that aren't so apparent at full size. Strong composition, obviously, but just lacks any other major point of interest for me.

Crossing Light
by m2iw

Comment:
Kind of like this. I can see your choice in cincludding the shadow, but I think you've pushed the structure of the lights and their pole too far out of frame in order to include it, and cropped some of the other fittings on the pole - not suggesting that you include every light on the stand, but I think moving the pole into a stronger plane in the image would make it feel less releated - and the colour, the rust, the texture there, set against the moving train, would be rather fine, i think.

Alleyway Refuge
by redmoon

Comment:
I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff - I even have a similar thing entered myself :-) I'm not wholly certain of your treatment of this though. The sense of soft focus seems to work against the feel of the scene, to mask the chaos of pipe-work and surfaces. That could equally be the point, of course.

"Light" Weight
by slindenman

Comment:
This is a great fight shot, even without the beam of light. Now do tell - you have surely added that in, haven't you? The trouble is, no-one even in their wildest moments in the lighting indistry would use a light of such narrow beam to light boxing - and from what i can see here it looks like a PAR lamp anyway, which simply cannot produce a beam that narrow (it must be six inches across where it 'hits' the boxers face). Also, thing that should be behind it have become brighter in that line, which should not happen (the red roof beam). If you wanted to be more accurate, then the beam should spread considerably as it approaches the ring, cerrtainly seen from this angle. Aside from which, as i said, it was a good enough shot anyway - especially with the sweat flying like that, the sense of controlled power from the fighter on the left, the wonderful look of the referee (and his hands in his pockets).

A Light's Point of View
by fifield

Comment:
Strong sense of composition, just that little touch of mystery form those two whatever-they-are's. The natural light is good.

lumière de soirée
by Ecce_Signum

Comment:
Certainly eye-catching, although I never got to it in the voting. I agree in general about the border - would have been worth a .something on the score I think - though inmy opinion some work to bring out the rest of the landscape would have made it feel less PS'd. Not saying it is PS'd, but it feels like it's been deliberately darkened to isolate the 'mill. More definition (not masses, but enough to see that horizon properly), and even some lightening of the sky toward the horizon would have added to that massive sky feel that is so imperative in communicating the feel of the Broads). Check out some of Tom Mackie's stuff - feature thhis month in Practical Photography of just this territory.

Striped Light
by gajmaj

Comment:
Shooting from the same vertical angle as the striped light has negated a real possibility of ehhancing the sense of shape, of three dimensions here: given the background straight lines, some sense of curve might have really been useful across the petals of the flower. The texture is good, and the tonality, and the grey backing especially effective to set off those tones ... but it cries out of missed opportunity to me.

Towers
by Manic

Comment:
I also took tis shot, for both this and for the architecture challenges - although, to be precise, I probably shot from around two yards in front and a touch to the left of where you stood. I also took a version which included the building to the right of the church - a mid-thirties small office block, though in an ordinary City style, as i thought it added a progression of age that I liked the idea of. I didn't submit those; I think i thought that it'd be done by others, and also I wanted something less obvious (not directly a criticism), and I rather liked the other shot I had by the end of the day. congratulations on your placing and score. Oh, and of course the Wb doesn't need to be sorted.

Time Pressure
by e301

Comment:
Thanks to all for votes and comments. My second 4th of the year (once described as the worst of all possible finishes). a few poeple picked up on the confusion at the top of frame, which I did want to try and do something about - but cropping to the edges of the clock faces relegated them in the composition too far, and cloning out the other people there ... well, after a while it just seemed wrong - part of the point was the press and rush and chaos of the people. The crop overall is so narrow because that's how this scene is - immediately to the left of this we get into cafe-world, and that over-confused things, and immediately to the right there's a line of trees, likewise.

Oh - and for those who crave expensive cameras, the one used for this shot cost £110.

Oh again; this was challenge number 301, it appears.

Message edited by author 2005-02-02 13:32:55.

On the way back
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Your sense of composition remains an object lesson to us all - in fact, an object lesson to any photographer I could think of. Proper photography.