Sharing Wisdom
by soccerdad

Comment:
Some strong elements here - think I would have composed a little more carefully to include the pawns in the background more evenly, as their apparently sniggering expressions are priceless. Technically, some sense of over-sharpening, pixelation along the brights of his hat etc. just makes it seem a touch heavily cropped, or over-processed. 6

Just Dandy
by ellamay

Comment:
so nearly submitted a shot starting from the same idea myself. So maybe I'll be a touch harsh on you having played with dandelion macros for a couple of days myself. It lacks a fine edge of impact (only just) - perhaps I mean more a sense of texture, a sense of really being close to the thing, involved with it. Fine detail in the seeds is good, but the finenness of the head itself is missing. Is this actually pushed up against the lens? Can't work out how you've lost no seeds, but at the same time they're not in the way ... 6

The Early Bird !
by Dim7

Comment:
Lacks - well a bunch of stuff really, other than a difficult moment to catch. I'm not sure that difficulty provides enough imapct to overcome the shortcomings of the shot however. Focus, detail, plasticity are all missing, and frankly it doesn't really call out for a centred composition - doesn't depend on it for its impact, if you see what I mean. 5 - for some sense of personality.

The Dawn Of Time
by wkoffel

Comment:
Good sense of some sort of texture, though it might well be due to processing rather than your shot, as far as it looks. God, what an awful attempt to say what I mean :-)

There is interest here; but it isn't a shot that does anything for me photographically, must be final judgement. 4

Antiquated
by trying2bstill

Comment:
An odd entry. Not that it's a bad subject: that dial cries out for a centred composition. However your lighting lets you down, as nothing here portrays the texture of the bakelite, and you seem to have compromised betweeen a full image of the 'phone and a closer concentration on the dial, and I cannot concieve of a good reason for this halfway crop.

Away from it All
by elsapo

Comment:
To my eye, you've taken this slightly too far in contrast, and certainly in the decision not to rotate the shot to keep the bench horizontal. There are areas where the light is entrancing - around the left leg of the bench for example, but otherwise it seems to bluntly a dull portrait.

Foggy Road Home
by Pedro

Comment:
Mystical, threatening, highly atmospheric. Love the sense of light tailing off into the corners (i'm sure there's a technical term for that, but can't bring it to mind at the moment). The street-sign adds an element of potential information to the scene, as though there might actually be a destination ahead, as peple might come from that direction ... only who are they?

Ladybug Included
by lear202bt

Comment:
Wonderful light, and quite an achievement having that depth of field and yet still communicating the three-dimensionality of the flower.Good colour too.

Island in the Fog
by mariomel

Comment:
Has a quality almost of Lartigue, and of the early experimental photographers - Fox Talbot's leaf image springs to mind. kind of works here, though I'm not sure that it will for those with less knowledge of the history of the medium.

Old Tyme Truckin
by Coley

Comment:
Despite the rrather odd blurring and strange smoothness of areas of this shot (do i smell Neatimage?), I'm not completely convinced that it warrants the centred composition - in that sense that the challenge really requires. Tough one this week, I suspect.