Is it over?
by Tiberius

Comment:
I like the fact that the solitary umberella wielder is also facing the opposite way from his fellows, though compositionally it's a great pity that the man behind him is by far the most eye-catchingly dressed, making it tricky to isolate the little chap visually. had this been my shot, I'm not certain I'd have entered it - or I might have done, expecting no great result - I think that's mostly because of the confusion of impacts around the umberella man: the darkness of him, the creeping of the shape of the umberella into the shape of the hillside, the massive pull to image left of the gaze of the other guys, all make it a conscious effort to keep one's eyes on that sole individual, and weaken the ipact of the image. You get points though for black and white, and for having I think pushed yourself towards at least an interesting idea.

After the rain, comes freedom
by erainman

Comment:
Your title hints most strongly at that bird being your point of interest, but it's quite a long way down the list of the things one forst sees when looking at this image - after the skeleton of that boat, the people, the buildings in the background. The light is quite enjoyable, but there seems really to be one band of complex overlapping things, and then the quiet light of the rest of the image.

Light for a Rainy Day
by mickisdaddy

Comment:
I like the idea of this, rather than your execution - I'm not sure how you might make it more impactful, but a couple of things stand out for me immediately: your depth of field is very shallow, such that the candles are not particularly in focus, along with the rainy window. Also there's a lack of a feel of contrast - you've exposed well enough for the light of the candles themselves, but the light beyond that is rather flat and uninteresting - perhaps simply waiting until the day outside were a little darker might have done it.

Electrifying Rock!
by tomz

Comment:
f/32 or something, I guess. The mad depth of field has impact.

Dependant and Plugged 24/7
by tmph

Comment:
Well, er, nicely lit I suppose.

Tijuana Border
by captkaeler

Comment:
Interesting - arresting, and more so than many images in this challenge. Actually, I don't get the connection to the challenge, whihch ought to be an issue, but I'm so bored of shots of those damn globe things that anything else seems like a balm, and then this also has social and political elements to it that just strike one immediately as 'proper' photography. There's a sense of some mad processing around the ewdges of the tree, but it remains one of the more interesting images I've seen today.

Force
by renefunk

Comment:
Another one! The best so far, I think, in purely technical terms. It's hard to see beyone the purely technical in shots of these things anymore.

Electric Lunch
by Strikeslip

Comment:
Another one! Mind you, at least there's no carefully lit human finger activating this.

Rapunzel's Greatest Desire
by nds

Comment:
Has a certain quality of 1950's advertising photography - perhaps simple the idea that a hairdryer might be such a sought-after item, but I'd like to think its actually the tonality and composition. That's no small compliment for a technical exercise - there were some great photographers working in advertising in the 1950s.

Finger on the pulse.
by shnevdorf

Comment:
Another one! Either you need serious monitor calibration, or I do.