"New Landmark"
by eagleone03

Comment:
Such a small image ... a shame perhaps, especially when the amount of compression artefacts present. Looks like it might have been intersting tonally, on those wall panels, but it's really so little bigger than a thumbnail it's impossible to tell.

Joshua Tree
by sfarrell23

Comment:
Good crisp detailing, composition, focus etc. I find it lacking in any sense of drama though - the colouring is a touch too weak for that ... I think perhaps richer tones in the grases, and even darkening the sky further might have been effective. Either that or take it to black and white, to emphasise the cilhouette of the tree further. Competent shot, though.

Hopeless
by alternarule

Comment:
I'm not certain that the colour noise is effective, certainly in such a near black and white shot. The capture is good, the scene is good, and it's well composed however ... a decent photojournalism shot. Porcessing is lacking to my view though - the figure seems overly lightened, without putting back any contrast much, and as I said the noise (which doesn't work like grain for me, being colour noise).

Magical water
by nicklevy

Comment:
Good toning - there's a serenity to those tones of brown and grey - and a smoothness that's appropriate to product photography, especially perfume. can't say that I find iit to be anything out of the ordinary, though.

The birds are back
by pcody

Comment:
Nice portrait - like the colour contrast here with the reflected sky. I would personally have cloned out the glass mark bottom left ... I keep trying to read what it says, and can't, quite.

Maximum Destruction
by LegatoMuzic

Comment:
Yep, it's a car up in the air ... not meaning to be rude :-) Apart from that, there's not a great deal I like here: the truck is slightly blurred, suggesting you didn't quite have a quick enough shutter, yet you haven't followed it to produce a blurred background and give any sensation of movement.

Too Young to Belong
by LtHousLady

Comment:
Of course there is sadness in the death of a child, that almost goes without saying.

Your photo, however, is really very blunt. It is entirely a portrait of a tombstone - what sense of location there is is simply entirely of a graveyard, exactly as one would expect, and makes no contrast, comment or difference to the view of the stone. As a study of the texture of the stone, the light is not useful - there is little sense of smoothness, or roughness, and the framing and depth of field does not allow for a perception of contrast with the grass, trees, and what surroundings are visible. This is what I mean by 'blunt' ... there is nothing else going on here, in photographic terms.

Had it been my own project, I think I would have tried to show something of the atmosphere of the cemetary/graveyard, or perhaps tried to contrast the heaviness, solidity and smoothness of the stone with the surrounding grass, leaves, or whatever. Those choices would depend on the nature of the location. Colour might have been effective in that task - it seems to be a black stone, and to contrast that with a vibrant green in the grass, or perhaps the leaves of the tree (shooting upwards from the ground), might have made colour a good choice for the shot - black and white is not necessarily the only way to 'do' sombre moods.

Just some thoughts.

Ed

Factory Accident?
by Jacko

Comment:
Technically, of course, wonderfully executed - attention to detail is aastounding, even the scalloping of the edge of the tin's lid is organised. Would it be ungracious of me to point you at this photo of mine?

Many congratulations on the ribbon.

A close shave
by jjbeguin

Comment:
So what is it ... can people not read, or something?

Friday Night
by choklat_thundr

Comment:
I do hope this placing doesn't stop you submitting here in future - though it's a clear lesson in what doesn and does not work as far as the mass of dpc voters are concerned :-). I still really like this shot - as i said, it was a clear second place effort for me, and I particularly don't understand what it is about this that places it so very low in the list, at least compared to a lot of the absolute rubbish that has been rated higher than it.