City of Sails!
by Robro

Comment:
Good postcardy choice of subject, good composition (eye is drawn to the bridge, then the sailboats, then the waterskier). I would have graded it 9 or 10 if it didn't seem quite so ... washed out. The entire left side of the sky is screaming bright featureless white, and the rest of it is a weird cyan sort of shade. A little more saturation, or less overall brightness maybe, would have brought out the colors better.

Billings, Montana
by CLarson557

Comment:
Not a bad try, but I had to mark it down a bit. The choice of angle is nicely postcardy, but no postcard would smudge its subject up with that much blur and fog. There's also really no main 'thing' to look at - no focal point. One of those tall buildings could have been the star, or the mountains, or the (very pretty!) clouds, but as it is, nothing is but the text, and that's just an odd choice to have made.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
by ClubJuggle

Comment:
Almost, but not quite. It's a decently interesting shot, but the composition is strange and an actual postcard-style angle wouldn't have had any trees obscuring the main point of interest. As it is, the eye is drawn first to the triangular pediment over the columns and then to the vast expanse of blank beige wall, leaving the viewer kind of foundering there.

Texas Hill Country
by Gordon

Comment:
Good choice of subject, but it's kind of blurry. Most postcards are quite sharp, almost macro-feeling, and in this one even the butterfly's blurry. The part most in focus, strangely, is the mass of stamens in the flower, which isn't really what you want the viewer focussing on. The general composition's quite good, though, and there's nice contrasts and colors. With a little more care for the focussing this could easily have gotten an 8 or 9 from me.

Redding, Gateway to the Cascades
by sunflower

Comment:
Not a bad try, but I didn't grade it very highly because there's no real focal point (attentionwise, not technical-photo-jargon) to the shot. The eye is drawn to a featureless expanse of slightly-rippled river. The mountain's too small and indistinct to really be the star; the trees are blurry; the sky's just flat cyan, no interesting clouds to draw the attention. The photo as a whole just doesn't seem to have much of a point, per se.

Grand Falls, New Brunswick
by Jacko

Comment:
Good concept, that's a postcardy subject all right, but your contrast is pumped WAY high. The water is blinding white, the sky almost twilight-dark, and the whole thing is painful to look at. The water's so bright you can't really see anything on it - it washes out the detail, and drags your eye down to something that isn't interesting to look at, rather than any actual focal point in the picture itself. The border and font label are just right for a postcard, though.

Gateway to the West
by kaysriv

Comment:
Not a bad idea - I've seen postcards with that sort of concept/setup. However ... there really isn't much contrast, at all. Everything's almost exactly the same color of blue, and nothing's really clear enough to give you somewhere to look. The text could also use to be bolder and postcardier, or omitted entirely (since as it is, it seems half-hearted and unsure, and just makes the overall effect worse). Maybe it's cropped too close, or the angle is slightly too extreme.

Sorry, just thinking out loud about how to explain my reactions. :->

Eschscholtzia Californica
by Tarbini

Comment:
The distortions to the image are kind of precious, in a way that annoys me slightly, and worse than that, in a way that's not very postcardy. It *is* pretty, though. If you'd just not messed with it I'd probably have marked it 10.

Milton Keynes - Home of the Concrete Cows
by pinback

Comment:
It might look more postcardy if it were cropped differently, or if the cows were photographed from a slightly different angle.

Gold
by lmhr

Comment:
It does look very like a postcard ... but a kind of ugly postcard, the sort I wouldn't buy. :-> I don't know if that's helpful or not, but I wanted to let you know why you got a 7 instead of something higher.