Sunday Garden Section - Adding Unique Color To Your Garden
by Neuferland

Comment:
Your headline would be more convincing if this were not an extremely commonplace flower. If you are going to use the word you unique in the headline your content better deliver or your readers will feel cheated.

Photographically, this is a pretty run-of-the-mill composition to stand out amongst the skads of flower shots seen on DPC every month. The overhead midday lighting is literal and dull.

Fire Burns
by konninn

Comment:
This is a somewhat interesting photo but it isn't a journalistic photo and your headline does nothing to support it as such.

Challenge aside, the fire isn't quite fascinating enough to make this a truly compelling photo. I have no issues with the technical aspects---it's a good capture---but after a few minutes of viewing it, I lose interest.

Heat Wave Continues
by DougPaz

Comment:
The headline could use some work. It's kind of grim for the lighthearted photo that is supporting your 'story'. A better title would mention a human element. This would make a nice human interest shot so I can see it as a journalistic photo. It's a really good capture. I have no criticism of the photo except a minor nit about the other child who is discernable as a blur blur in the background. It distracts a bit from the simple background. Still, one of the best I've seen in this challenge.

Bolshoi Ballet on Brazil
by port

Comment:
This would be so great if some part of it were in focus. I like the blur, don't get me wrong, but with motion blur photos their should be some sharp areas or else it just looks like camera shake. Using your slow sync flash would give you some motion blur but freeze some of the action so that there is some sharpness. I have absolutely no complaints with the capture and the composition. Both are perfect. I think you meant the headline to read, ...in Brazil but if English is your second language I can see where the mistake occured. One of the better one's I've seen, in spite of the technical issues.

Blood Donors Avert Crisis
by ablessg

Comment:
The headline would be more effective if it identified and actual crisis. A more effective supporting photo for a story like this would include a human element. Show the people getting out there in donating blood rather then a shot of blood and medical equipment which makes for very dull subject matter, particularly in black and white.

the headline
by gabrielrjr

Comment:
Your title isn't a headline. It makes it difficult to evaluate this still-life as a journalistic photo since I don't know what story it is meant to support. Therefore, I must conclude it doesn't meet the challenge.

Photographically, the cropping is a bit severe to really make much of the subject. The extremely shallow depth of field combined with the cropping leaves very little of interest in focus. The section of flag in the background is in sharper focus then most of the sword or dagger. It took me awhile to make out that there is a uniform under the flag. I thought the splotching was weird artifacts from some kind of PS process. In the future, I would suggest you take advantage of the maximum image size. It is really difficult to evaluate a photo this small.

Agriculture is abandoned.
by theodor38

Comment:
This isn't a headline or a journalistic photo. For one thing, agriculture is not, in fact, abandoned. Journalism, ideally, deals with facts. Opinions are valid in an op-ed piece but that would reallyl be stretching it. At any rate, I don't think you would find many journalist making the claim that agriculture has been abandoned. There is no human element in this photo so I can't even ignore the headline and evaluate the photo as a journalistic photo. It is a very nice still-life but it fails to meet the challenge.

Photographically, I like the angle. The cropping is a bit severe. I would have chosen to show the whole tractor. A little dodging to bring out some lights in the foreground would help to balance out the extreme lights and darks.

Come Visit the Pueblo library
by JC54

Comment:
This isn't a jounralistic photo or a headline. It would be more appropriate for a brochure.

Photographically, it is a pretty dull subject. The biggest problem is the image is far too small to really evaluate properly.

A Nation Reflects, Mourns
by slim

Comment:
Good idea. It is a bit out of focus.

Retirement - The Last Day in School
by mannjudit

Comment:
That title is not really a headline making it difficutl for me to make the connection to the challenge.

As a portrait it has potential. The lighting and focus are quite nice.The huge flowers overwhelm the subject.