the window
by ursula

Comment:
Yeah - for once selective desat really does work, even for me :-) Congrats on another ribbon ... that blue's just around the corner ...

The Prey's Perspecitve
by JoelHSmith

Comment:
Nah - cat photos? Everyone hates 'em :-) Great work, good result ... congrats on your first ribbon.

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"High Above Hoover"
by tfarrell23

Comment:
Good - serious competition on the 5400 front page. You have what many regard as the worst possible placing here - so close, and yet so far. Good shooting.

Curious Cows
by e301

Comment:
Thanks for all votes and comments. One point that I think a lot of people misunderstood - fill flash would not have helped - apart from scaring them off (and this is more than just a quick one shot snap), it would have burnt out the foreground cow way before helping with the black one. Burning etc. no hope as there just isn't the information in the black cows face at this exposure. Anyway, I was way too busy trying to stop their friends from eating my tripod :-)


Message edited by author 2004-06-24 04:22:22.

Family
by moodville

Comment:
Oh gosh this is one of those shots that makes your heart beat faster - has a wonderful aged quality (dof, I think), and were it for the fact that he never took animal shots that I know of, would be worthy of Frank Meadow Sutcliffe - there is little higher praise. Compositionally perfect, and so exact as to take it beyond the sentimentality it might easily have succumbed to. You should be sending this to every picture editor you can find.

At The Train Station
by NicNic101

Comment:
I find the angling of this shot odd - neither one thing or another: not extreme enough for impact, too much for accident. Can't see what it gains from excluding part of some of the hanging fittings. Has a level of interest in tonal difference, and some play of light on that ceiling ... I just get a strong feeling that it would have made a happier composition were it straightened and were those fittings fully included: it has the distinct impression that this was the only way you could exclude some major distraction from frame.

Florida Sunrise
by Gallatin

Comment:
I personally feel that this is outside the challenge stipulations - but it's such a nebulous and debateable area (clouds, reflections) that I guess I'll let you off. Some technical problems around the sun, over-saturation etc., which could probably have been sorted out (were you given the advanced editing rules) and I'm not convinced about this framing. 7

Lights at the House of John
by tlchamb

Comment:
Size issue - you've used way under half the available pixels, under two thirds of the available file size. Even without great software, I would think you could get this image larger. I think I quite like the image, though I always have the feeling with these small shots that something is being hidden by that re-sizing, that maybe the fine detail is missing and just doesn't register so much at this size. 5

Leaving the Rest
by Coley

Comment:
Strong impression that what detail there is here is forced, through processing, rather than captured. I know it's a very tricky subject to capture, with there being such an amount of fine detail here, and display of very fine white lines on the internet, given the pixels, is tricky. But for me, here, there are too many jagged edges, and too much of the head of the dandelion is out of light or out of focus or just plain dark. Don't get any sense of multiple light sources either - there amy well be reflectors used etc., but we were asked for it to be 'obvious', and I fear that here it isn't - I'm certain this will hurt your score more from others than from me, however. 5

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by frumoaznicul

Comment:
Like the composition, though I'm not such a fan of the grain of the shot. I also think that missing the brightest area of the tines with you chosen dof might be a mistake - it leaves a conflict between the natural draw of the brightness and the opposing draw o the focus that doesn't allow the eye to settle at all. But there's a feel I like here very much.