Meteorite destroys 100 year old home.
by marlin

Comment:
A human element might make this more convincing as a journalistic photo. Without that, it loses the immediacy of journalism and veers into still-life, landscape territory.

Photographically it is a good subject. It is a bit overexposed to really be able to appreciate the textures and color.

As you can see, I´m not the only one
by teto

Comment:
This isn't a journalistic photo and your title is not a headline.

Photographically it might be more interesting from a side view. This looks rather flat and the bottom bug is obscured in shadow. Centering the subject doesn't work to well with this composition because the edges of the leaves tend to draw your eye to either edge of the frame and away from the bugs.

Autos: The Cost of Luxury
by airatic

Comment:
I'm at a loss with this one. It appears to be a view of some garage clutter and the door through a car windshield. There is no connection to the challenge. This isn't really much of a photo either. It is out of focus, there is a reflection that makes quite a large glare spot over the whole image. The subject is extremely mundane.

Yellow
by cbeller

Comment:
I can only hope the intention was not to make the eyes look yellow also. Unfortunately, that is what I'm seeing and it looks very creepy. The thin yellow border only emphasizes it. The tones in the b&w portion of her skin could be better. There is a very shiny pale area running from her forehead over her left eye and along her nose and down her mouth. It is very distracting. When you convert color to black and white you aren't done. You still need to tone the greys so they aren't so dull looking. An easy way of doing this in PS is to adjust hue/saturation, clicking on the colorize box and then moving the saturation level to very low. You can also adjust the hue level to get the tone you like. I prefer to pretty much leave it in the middle where it is.

Emergency Shelter
by tyrkinn

Comment:
I like the approach and the scene. The foreground looks a bit murky and out of focus. Perhaps adjusting the contrast a bit first and than doing the desaturation technique may have brightened it a bit. As it is, the b&w appears very dull with almost no darks.

Yellow Cars
by alanfreed

Comment:
Nice idea. The tight cropping and overhead view makes for an interesting abstract composition. I would suggest elevating the contrast first, perhaps darken some of the greys, saturating the yellow, and then move on to the selective desaturation. As it is now, the yellow really doesn't quite pop and there are just too many middle values and not enough lights and darks to really make this composition sing. Also, even though there may have been five yellow cars on the lot, it may have been more interesting if you had just selected the one with the trunk open to really make a strong statement. The yellow placement in this composition is just rather random. Nice effort.

life in color
by theodor38

Comment:
The plant, which is uninteresting, obscures the face of the child which is far more interesting. It is usually not a good choice to obscure the face in a portrait. If your intent is to add an air of mystery or anonymity to the subject then this would work. In a portrait of a child however it just doesn't work.

Don't touch that dial
by awpollard

Comment:
It looks like you managed the technique pretty well. Although I appreciate the pattern the boxes make, somewhat, I don't find this angled view that appealing. A straight-on composition would have flattened the shapes into a more abstract composition of squares and llines and added interest to what is essentially a very mundane subject.

The farm's roof
by rhipster

Comment:
I like the composition but it is awfully small. I imagine that is because of the panoramic effect. It is hard to get a panorama with a 640 pixel maximum, I imagine. It looks like this has nice crisp detail but it is really hard to tell from the small size. Sorry.

Yellow Day Lily
by Crafty Sue

Comment:
This looks weirdly over-manipulated on my monitor. There is an odd solarized or posterized effect running across the black background like it may have been a wire fence? The edges of the flower look posterized also. I'm not sure if this was the intention. It looks very weird.