Rodeo
by kennyt

Comment:
Lacking drama in the light - just overall too bright a shot for me. Levels, or curves work to bring the contrast out in the scene more strongly would have made it so much more appealling - and possibly helped with that odd greenish cast in the sky.

Dinner in the Oregon District - Dayton, Ohio
by stupidcat

Comment:
Aligning just one side of the window givves the image a weird falling-over feel. A little distortion correction would have fixed that, and it would be worth fixing i think because otherwise I like the shot: good tonality, sense of compositional balance, although I do wish those characters were better framed by the window. Even like the crop on the car - enough of it to know it, and not slvishly including it siply because it's a thing. But that slight sense of giddiness from the curvature undermines the image a little all the time.

Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
by smokeditor

Comment:
Your subject seems rather relegated in importance in this shot by that sunset. I know many folks are interpreting this challenge more as 'travel brochure' than guide, but I can't see this being even effective advertising for the location. Perhaps, as a subversive ironic entry it has some merit, but more in the point you're making than the score I'm afraid.

Whilstleblower Farm
by jonpink

Comment:
Good solid primary colours add a strong element to this shot, despite a sense that the saturation might fractionally have been pushed too far. Lihgt is good, control of exposure is good, even those slightly over-exposed areas of cloud and wheels don;t detract for me. Strong sense of compositional balance too. There's a little impression of lacking detail - like a soft-focus kind of effect, which may, looking at the hard edges of the leaves, simply be compression artefacts. I see that it's under 90KB - perhaps a little more information would give it a further edge. Like it though - a very happy shot.

Riverside
by computerking

Comment:
The sheer level of contrast prevents this from working for me - so much bright, so much dark, and I would imagine the interesting stuff - the texture of the bark of that tree, the patterning and tones of green in the far bank - happens in a very restricted middle ground. Besides that, htere doesn't seem to be much very striking about the scene anyway - no special moment of light, unusualness of location. There's a hint, in the very left of frame, that the grss beside the lake/riveer and the dappling of the sunlight through brances might make a good image, but whether you could have made that fit the challenge, I don't know. But for all those points, I think you're not far off here: wait for the light, try to control the exposure in the sky - perhaps some fill flash to give detail in the shadows? - and perhaps, compositionally, just allow a little more foreground, and i think you'd have a very restful photograph.

Through the Trees
by charmayne

Comment:
Great shame about the sky here - would really like to see that kept more under control, especially as you've done such a good job with the tonality in the rest of the image. Is there fill-flash here? There's a slight cut-out feel to the foreground trees that hints at that, and it's very well controlled if it is. I'd personally have underexposed - or rather exposed for the sky, and tried to bring back the trees and grass using curves or levels; failing that, an obvious situation for a graduated ND filter. Thatweird sky loses you a couple of points, i fear.

Osteospurmum
by paynekj

Comment:
What looks like partial de-saturation seems a bit odd here - I'm not convinced that there's enough textural detail to warrant muting the colour information to this exent. It may of course be simply the way things are, and not processing, but then I think the point that it seems that way is still valid. The barrel distortion is a pity, but not major.

Nature's beauty, framed.
by ScantyNebula

Comment:
Those very strong halos from, presumably, heavy sharpening - or at least processing of some sort - actually brings a likeable effect to this. Like the graphical nature of the composition with those window-lights, and your use of colour. 6

Framed by leaves
by pixar

Comment:
The lack of depth of field definition somehow removes the affect of framing from this - the difference in scale is not enough to really suggest a foreground element and a background; that, and the sheer amount of greenery. Tonally, it's pretty good - accurate rendition of shades, even the grey of the water. There's a bizarre quality of over-compression, yet without the halo-ing effect one would associate with sharpening normally. Very pixelated looking. That gives a quite likeable grainy feel to it, were the subject a touch more suited to that kind of feel: this pleasant natural scene doesn't, to my eye, benefit much from it.

Drifting Apart
by sher

Comment:
Like the toning very much, like the feel you've generated in the grass, and those hanging strings from the tree (they have a name, those things, though I can't recall it right now). Somehow, though, the shot overall doesn't do enough for me. It might be the sher arbitrariness of those two stones: it somehow lacks real mystery. Struggling to explain - but something isn't cutting it for me. 7