lighting the way....
by clay808

Comment:
Rotoation effective, lovely effect. Like also the sense of mystery that the inability to see the other end of the 'corridor' produces; Don't expect to see it scoring very much above 5, but here's an 8 for you.

light sources
by anshalin1

Comment:
at last an interesting, even arresting, shot that meets the challenge. I have slight reservations about the composition - not the positioning or angle, but rather the extent to which you've pushed the building into frame, perhaps I should say the lack of extent. It's a fine blance, and I've no doubt you experimented with it, but I think I would have taken it a touch further in: I just sense that the blance of sky and building is a little too far in favour of the sky. Still, good work. 8

Sunny day
by asij

Comment:
Aguably, I suppose, each individual cloud provides some reflected light. But then, arguably, each individual molecule of the sun proved another light source. For myself, I would draw the line beyond the point you have chosen. Kind of pretty image, though I would have levelled it, and not placed the horizon so close to mid-frame: especially with a sky so interesting.

Simplicity
by train

Comment:
I guess you must have used some reflector, or fill light from somehwere, to have entered this in this challenge ... but for the life of me I cannot see what that is other than what looks like one large softlight. there's also a slight feeling of the bowl of the petal drifting out of focus, just out of the focal range perhaps, almost like a wide aperture shot focussed on the nearer part of the petal; this is a shame, as the wter drop makes that area appear to be the natural catch-point of the image. 4 - mainly for not meeting challenge.

I Love You Too
by Konador

Comment:
Highly accomplished technically, though just seeming to lack an edge of clarity around the text - sharpening? see also divorce :-) - catches my eye. 6

Grangemouth Oil Refinery
by Tallbloke

Comment:
You Scots have all the locations :-) This seems very noisy (the smoke) - and I wonder if that is having an effect on what I'm seeing as a lack of fine detail in the pipework here. I'm not completely convinced about the silhouetted bushes/trees in foreground either: in fact, I rather think there isn't enough location here, just that pattern of lights and pipes, but without enough drama to grab me. were it my shot, I'd parhps have tried early evening (late evening at the moment, I suspect), to keep some sky and surrounding detail. 6

Fly
by TedvandenBergh

Comment:
Difficult capture, but the quality issue lets it down very badly indeed. Not to mention the force required to get it into the challenge at all (which, IMO, it fails) 2

Filtered light from above
by DeepDive

Comment:
I don't know - perhaps there's some thinking that I'm missing, but I can't see this fitting the challenge here. Top shot, however. Love the pose, the bubbles. 4

Reflections
by anatom

Comment:
Why so many small photos this week? maybe it's just a freak of the order I'm seeing them in. If it should be a software problem - there are many free editors, many programs put out on the coverdiscs of computer and photography magazines ... you don't have to spend $600 on photoshop. If someone were to enter a 4x6 print into a print photography competition, would you expect it to get marked down?

This doesn't seem particularly sharp, even at this resolution. Compositionally, you've placed the bridge right across the centre of frame, at the expense of some of those reflections, and at the expense of a comfortable shape for the eye to follow through the frame: placed a little higher, it would, in conjunction with the river, create a curving sweep up and round to the right that would give a strong central graphic element to the image, and improve it for the viewer no end. 3

Multiple, more than 1
by Pixelprose

Comment:
Why so small!? It may be just that I've seen three or four shots in a row that haven't used the available size by a distance, but surely this would have been more effective at 640xsomething? There's nearly 200 pixels of height you haven't used here ... whyever not? It's tha more annoying, because this could be wonderful - really wonderful: the effect of the lampshade on the things own stand, and the effect of that little cross-light on the shade itself could have brought out more, perhaps. You could have found that great range of tonality that black and white can really do, but that only really shows in the details, and the detail disappear in the sizing. 6