Any one for Cricket
by zed3

Comment:
Ewww. More pixels please. Read the tutorial on sizing photos for DPC- undersized photos never score well.

FarmScape - Just Before Sunset
by rwouthuis

Comment:
Beautiful picture - I love how the field and sky have similar colors and contrasting textures.

Making a splash in 2005
by joynim

Comment:
Wow- the splash looks like a little angel in her hands! I LOVE parts of this image but something about the composition as a whole doesn't work as well as its parts. The colors are delightfully subtle. The background tile floor is especially intriuing witht the water over it, I wish there were more of ot in the shot to balance the weight of the little girl. I love the way the colors of her bathing suit are matched but the reflections on the water. The leading lines (arms, legs and tiles) all point to the angel which is in a good rule-of-thirds spot. I can't quite figure out what makes this a 7 shot instead of a 10.

attraction
by olihar

Comment:
Could you ask your friends to step out of the image and leave the landscape and the lonely guy up on the ridge? It would, of course be a differnt image. I find it disconcerting that I can't figure out what the people are doing and that detracts from the imapct the scene should have. It SHOULD be a 10 but because they make me stare at them instead of admiring the scene it might be a nine. Are they taking pictures of you taking pictures of them? Does she have a teddy bear in her arms? Is it a little dog? Is she even a she? I am forgetting to look at the spectacular clouds, the wonderful contrasts of textures, the subtle colors, the patterns of the earth. Does he have a camera also? or a gun? You see how distracting it is?

Let Your Soul and Spirit Fly
by Elemmennope

Comment:
So exquisite! Testbook composition leading the viewer into the photo with the stream. What magic is uo there? All the trees are bending to look, the wise old log is pointing that way. I love the contrast of the small rocks int he lower right with the misty trees of the upper left. I love the way that the separation between earth and sky disappears at the same point the stream disappears- the image wants me to leave behind the myriad details of daily life (stones) and follow the dreams in the distance. Ok, I will. 10

She
by bucket

Comment:
This is an amazing amazing work of art. If I could vote twice I would give it two tens. I'm sure it used to be in my favorites but I cant remember who's image it is. I love the light and shadow on her calfs, the awkward position of her toes, the relaxed hang of her fingers, the underwear, the headless anomimity, the unusual beackgroudn color, the grain. This might be my most favorite picture EVER!

Look at me!
by idemaerschalk

Comment:
With such an emphasis on the center flower I would have expected that it to be in sharpest focus, instead it seems a bit off. Perhaps the white flower on the right is where the focal plane is. More light would have helped so you could have used a smaller aperature. Or as someone suggested, keep the aperature wide, take advantage of the shallow DOF but don't rely on autofocs to focus on the center. AUto focus will often go searching for somethig with more contrast, as the edges of the flowers on the right against the darker background.

On my monitor the red and yellow are rather muddy, not at all vibrant. Sometimes it is helpful to look at your submission on a monitor with another calibration before you submit it. If you have Photoshop you can use selective color to boost the saturation of the yellows, perhaps that would help the red also.

Consider an off center composition. Centuries of artists have found that the human brain prefers to look at something placed at one of the intersections of the "rule of thirds" lines. While a centered composition can be effective, in this arena where the voting is done very quickly another arrangement might score better - You seem to be asking about scores.

Kisses...Mum!!
by Kita

Comment:
love the purple

Breadwinner, mother of five
by whiteroom

Comment:
At first the face seems so sad - but look closer, she is smiling!

Raising cubs
by M.O.C.

Comment:
Excellent lighing on the figurine - this is very well done - too bad figurines arent popular on DPC (I could be wrong this time tho).