Footsteps
by impilot

Comment:
Focus? Possibly a good shot in here if we could really see what it was.

Ducks in Flight
by foxinsox47

Comment:
Birds fly where and when they fly; I can't control the sky. Settings were for something else; the ducks just flew up out of nowhere and I pointed and clicked; I was surprised the shot was as good as it was, under those conditions. Granted, comments are valid, as far as they go, especially the one about the sensor dust, which I just did not see, but generally show no understanding or appreciation for wildlife. If a cosmetic blemish is more important than the subject, something is dramatically wrong. I think I'm wasting my time in here, to be honest. I'll just go back to taking shots that please me, without worrying about pleasing anyone else, on a fake schedule such as this site requires. In short, as President Abraham Lincoln put it, "People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."

Geese Gathering at Dawn
by AlexSaberi

Comment:
There's something comical about this shot that I can't quite quantify. Perhaps it's the rank-and-file arrangement of the birds. Whatever, I really liked this :-)

Learning to Fly
by Jutilda

Comment:
I don't care for how this one is framed/cropped: it's clunky.

Spider
by gaurav

Comment:
Very, very nice; clever use of a "screen" :-)

Magical mystery box
by parallax

Comment:
Very nice use of lighting.

Hey! Get out of there...
by signal2noise

Comment:
ROFLMAO!! Talk about candid :-o

Locked in on grainy pencils
by foxinsox47

Comment:
It is quite obvious that very few people really paid any attention to the topic. Either that, or I completely misunderstood it, but if so, I'm not alone, as there were a few others who took the Advanced Editing Rule to heart and used it to the full extent. The fact that just about every one of those shots which had effects work done on them got low marks can only mean that the vast majority of the voters either didn't bother to read the Rules, or didn't care. Sad, really...

There was one comment which had value: "A little more clarity and this could have potential." I can see the point being made. The effect I was going for was that of a pencil sketch of a deadbolt. I added the grain to heighten the contrast, but I might have overdone it.

I also appreciate the '9' that I got; at least one voter understood what I was trying to do: thanks!

Message edited by author 2007-08-20 01:22:23.

Dreamcatcher
by bryanbrazil

Comment:
Took me a while to actually "see" this. Nicely done :-)

mass transit
by humanprotocoldroid

Comment:
This reminds me of the movie "Koyaanisqatsi". Disturbing imagery...