Where's Purple?
by rarmermann

Comment:
Hello, I have made it a point for this challenge to comment on every photo that I scored under a 4.

I scored this photo a 3 for the following reason(s):

1. The image is too small. Always try and use the maximum pixel dimensions that DPC allows. There are tutorials on DPC that can help you achieve this while keeping the file size the allowable limit.

2. Over-sharpened. From my experience, sharpening like this happens because the initial photo was either not fully in focus, or there was some camera-shake. Fixes for this include using a higher ISO or faster shutter speed. If not possible due to camera or lighting conditions, move the subject into better lighting.

It could be over-sharpened due to an over-use of sharpening tools as well, in which case it never hurts to play around with various sharpening tools to find a good balance, and don't be afraid to ask for opinions on it as well.

3. Lack of the color demanded by the Challenge. Where's the purple? The minute amount visible in her hair-tie is just not enough to solidify this entry to the challenge for me.

Study #243
by Eyesup

Comment:
Hello, I have made it a point for this challenge to comment on every photo that I scored under a 4.

I scored this photo a 3 for the following reason(s):

1. Focus. Your focus is soft here throughout the photo. Nothing has any real clarity, and it's hard on my eyes to view it.

2. lighting is harsh, and the shadow play behind the glass is distracting to the subject.

3. The color is approaching pinks, instead of purples, but this isn't a strong negative, as I do give leeway for monitor differences.

A little more work getting this subject in focus, and perhaps minimalizing the amount of chaos going on inside the glass would have pulled a higher score from this image from me.

Rush
by XMountaineer

Comment:
Hello, I have made it a point for this challenge to comment on every photo that I scored under a 4.

I scored this photo a 3 for the following reason(s):

There's only one real reason, and that is that the hue shift to purple in this case seems incredibly tacked on and without any sense of why it was added to the image in the first place. You have some blown highlights as well, but that's usually only a small nitpick if the photo itself is strong, in this case, it just hightens the fact that the photo is purple for what I consider to be a desperate attempt to enter a challenge.

Makeup Addiction: Cocaine of the Beauty World
by LindseyJean

Comment:
Hello, I have made it a point for this challenge to comment on every photo that I scored under a 4.

I scored this photo a 3 for the following reason(s):

1. The use of purple is muted to the point where it's almost chromatic. Lacks the color needed for me to give it a higher score as relating to the challenge.

2. Choice of subject, while certainly unique, isn't used very flatteringly. I don't really like the random-seeming placement and the lack of a tie-in to your title. It's powder, certainly, but it could be any powder. The relation to cocaine isn't evident.

3. Overall appeal is simply just very low for me. It's one of those photos that I just looked at, shrugged, and moved on. Just not a strong choice of photo for the challenge IMO.

Things I do like about it, however, are the choice of a shallow DOF, which stands the powder out, and the color play that is in the powder itself, albeit very muted.

A house husbands tool
by stphq

Comment:
When I stop laughing to the point of making my innards hurt, I'll bump this photo up a little.

Purple Honey
by callossus

Comment:
Hello, I have made it a point for this challenge to comment on every photo that I scored under a 4.

I scored this photo a 2 for the following reason:

1. Always, always used the maximum pixel dimensions when submitting your photo. If I have to lean into the monitor to see your photo, it annoys me. If I am annoyed, I will score accordingly.

Buzz
by gunsmith6

Comment:
Hello, I have made it a point for this challenge to comment on every photo that I scored under a 4.

I socred this photo a 2 for the follwoing reasons:

1. Your connection to the challenge is tentative, the main color of this shot is green, with black and then a magenta/pink with a slim leaning into lavender in the flowers. With the challenge called "Purple", you would need the photo to have much more of a connection to that main color for me.

2. You've missed focus on your main subject, leaving it out of focus in a very glaring way, especially since it comes across as the main focal point to the viewer.

Technically, and challenge wise, this isn't a very strong entry for my eyes.

Shamu
by yjoshi

Comment:
Hello, I have made it a point for this challenge to comment on every photo that I scored under a 4.

I gave this photo a 2 for a few different reasons:

1. There is no purple in this photo whatsoever. Even with a generous adjustment for monitor differences, all I see is blue. In a challenge named "Purple" well, I think it speaks for itself.

2. The photo itself isn't pleasing to me in any way. You have reflections from the glass, there is no point of interest beyond the static subject, focus is off, and just about every other technical aspect to the photo (in DPC terms) simply isn't there.

I won't presume to know or guess on why you entered this photo into this challenge, but because of what I mentioned, it is a 2 from me.

Night Rhythm
by Ashley3388

Comment:
you suffered some big-time horizontal banding here. Ouch.

Forgotten
by darnok

Comment:
If this isn't above a 7 I'll eat my XBox 360.