New York, New York
by Pixelstate

Comment:
A really nice capture of a city under sunset. Very nicely done.

His Serious Face
by liberty

Comment:
Larf. Hidden gems anyone? I didn't even see the tongue for a moment because I'm getting bad net lag right now and the bottom half didn't load for a couple of seconds. I had already started picking apart the apparent softness (probably the result of a strong crop?).

Almost smacks of the dualism of the Mona Lisa. heheh.

Phone Home
by LanceW

Comment:
The only thing I don't much like is the fact that the contrast of the clouds at the very top does not match the contrast of the clouds elsewhere. I'd be happy with lens falloff/vignetting in the corners, but it looks a bit strange. Yeah, stupid niggle. Sorry. Anyhow, you still get a 9. :)

Morning Dew
by xakpeet

Comment:
excellent choices for the colors!

Portrait of a Robber Fly
by roz

Comment:
Fan-frickin-tastic! Is it standing on a ping pong ball?

I'm going to take points of for.... nothing at all! 10 :)

Lizzy
by Miss Taterbug

Comment:
Interesting effect. I like it on the bricks and don't like it at all in the grass. The color of her hair works nicely with the color of the bricks.

Life's a beach
by Quackers

Comment:
Quite nice. The colors of the sky are just a tiny bit too green/yellow to be natural, but actually I think it lends itself to the duckie quite well. The duckie could be a bit brighter and it seems like I can see a lens shadow from the flash or...

The overall picture works quite well and I also appreciate the tone of the sand which complements the strength of the other lines.

Bay Blues
by gaurawa

Comment:
quite lovely and the patchy, feathery effect in the water is very effective.

Baby in Bucket
by avermaa

Comment:
This is almost a 'lensbaby effect', although to be honest, to my eye it certainly looks like it was done in post processing.

A bit more care with the color in the skin tones would have helped it. It seems a bit strong in the blues/magenta. This might have been a result of the camera trying to correct for the strong color of the bucket in auto white balance.

I think it's cute and while I don't like the way the effects have been applied, I think the effects themselves are pretty fun, so I'm going to take the vote down and bring it back up again to 6. I wish there was a 6.5...

On second thoughts, nyeh, it's a happy challenge, so I'll give ya a free 'happy point'! :)

Fleur
by photoman78

Comment:
Great pic of the flower and good choice for colors. It's pretty obvious that you put significant thought and effort into the lighting on this one and it has been done very effectively.

A bit of blur on the BG area would have been good I think. This would have been easy to do by using one of the color channels as a layer mask.

I don't know if it's intentional, but there a bit of 'blotchiness' in the overall tone of greens in the BG which help give it a more natural look as if it were a strongly out of focus background area.

Also, the tone of the greens in the BG change from warm to cool, which is a bit odd. Might have been worth just a tiny bit more tweaking to equalize that. Maybe not.

I don't think the border helps anything here. It would have been preferable to have a larger view of the flower. It certainly seems that you have enough detail to manage that.