High Fidelity
by Imagineer

Comment:
Forbidden Colours huh? I work regularly with Ryuichi, not a song one sees a lot of around these days ...

Quite a cool photo - though I'm not sure it holds the interest very long. Detail, focus, all that is fine - just think it's a bit straightforward, and there isn't the profoundly good lighting to turn that into something fascinating. 6

Like Water For Chocolate
by pcody

Comment:
Well executed, but surely old hat by now. Check out Dr Harold (Doc) Edgerton's work, if you don't already know it of course.

Prospecting for gold
by Pop_in_Oz

Comment:
Now if you'd called it The Manhattan Project, this would have been a scary photo. Neat trick of light though, and intriguing image. My eye is drawn to the blank foreground space though, and i don't find anything of interst there - the tents and rubble seem too high in the frame to gain emphasis, but not insignificant enough to be ignored.Would love to see it cropped an inch or so from the bottom, not least to get the horizon out of the middle of the frame, which really doesn't seem to suit this shot.

Sharon Thesen, Pair of Scissors
by acquaresegone

Comment:
Lots of good things - placement of light, impression of steel, and real roughness of texture in the background paper(?). Unconvinced by the processing, unconvinced by the conposition - the angling of it all seems arbitrary to me, and the mangling of pixels likewise - don;t see what you gain. Some sense of viciousness? Sharpness would better be expressed in a cleaner shot i think, and the loop of the handle being out of shot annoys me.

Cats Are Better Than Dogs: From a Cat's Eye View
by amateurboi

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Whoa, you must have been really reaked when you saw this looking in through the letter-box. Surprised there isn't more camera shake. Oh no, hang on, it's a border, silly me.

Good cat photo, well exposed, nice light in the eyes, and a pose that really says 'cat'. I just think thhe border is the most eye-catching thing about the shot by a street, and not a helpful street at that.

Bow
by sher

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I live in Bow, in London, amd I'd love to know where this is ... or do you perhaps mean Bough? beautifully dark, private image, really like the small contrat between that nearest and the further trees.

Lean on Me
by moodville

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I like this use of DOF, and the stones seem perfectly centred in the deth of that field. Also like the simplicity, and the scattering of small leaves make me think this hasn't been 'cleaned up'.

Positive Space
by jjbeguin

Comment:
8, or 9 I'm pondering. I wonder if it's too dark for many here? It certainly isn't for me ... my problem with it is that it's perhaps a little straight-forward. A great moment of lighting to capture, placing the sunlight onto that line of pillars, and capturing the loom of the rest of the building. Great focus and detail, of course, but you don't get a ten because in the end I don't quite like it as much as my favourite of this challenge, and I find my second favourite a little preferable to this, but whether that's a whole point's worth ...

San Filipe de Neri
by Firstrich1

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Wonderful work - same guy as the Grado shot, I'd guess? and not just from the Italian title ... True sense of shape and tonal contrast here. Beautiful, beautiful work. Might be little too complicated an image to rate a ribbon on dpc, in the sense of it's almost abstract quality, it's concentration on the formal, but I do hope not.

Returning: seems to lack a little sharpness, though that might only be to avoid jagged edges.

my sacred place
by agwright

Comment:
Wonderfully done, and gives a feeling of preciousness, of being a beacon. Can't work out what's going on with that white patch of water - where's the light it's reflecting? It somehow looks real though, so I'll go with it :-)

Love the foreground silhouettes, and won't be at all surprised if you win with this.