With 332 images in the challenge, it's always going to be tough to get a lot of comments without a real eye-catcher of an image, and I fear this is not that eye-catching.
Difficult to say exactly what's 'wrong' with it - though for me the light is pretty ordinary - there's little depth or texture to it, especially where there most ought to be, in the contrast between the leaves and the grass and the smoothness of the stone. I also think the subject is oddly placed in the frame: there's quite a lot of redundant foreground in the pic actually, and yet the distant areas of the graveyard aren't excluded - you've not done one thing or the other here (shown the stone against the background, or in it's foreground context). If I'd been shooting it, I think I'd have taken a more square-on approach (the slope of the grass over-growing the stone would make quite an interesting compositional line), but I'm not sure it would ever get past the fits-the-challenge police. You only have to compare it to the winners to see what was really wrong in dpc terms ...
... no sunset involved, more information than can be absorbed in a two-second flash of a glance, no pretty colours or imposing 'mood', couldn't ever imagine seeing it on a greeting card in an 'art' shop.
Ed
Message edited by author 2003-10-29 04:22:35.
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