She's Got Legs
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
I gotta say, I dont' get around much anymore, but it sure is nice to see 'Art Roflmao' on the front page.

I'll lift an imaginary glass of champagne (filled with seltzer water of course) to ya!

Well done on the ribbon.

And not a shabby idea at all!

Nature's Opulent Power
by SJCarter

Comment:
Really, really nicely done. Perfect bolt. The timing is just part of the battle really. Compo is often tricky and this one played for you very nicely.

Ye Old Stompin' Ground
by cynthiann

Comment:
critique as requested in the forums.

Issues:
#1 subject of the photo = building. It can work for you. It can also fail to work for you. Personally, I think you did OK with what you had to work with, but there is no real sense of dramatics with this image. Nothing interesting about the POV. It's just a building from standing height eye level. There is nothing else in the picture to give context or compare to anything else in the pic. The human interest aspect is a bit lacking.

#2 Processing. A number of issues here, but not all bad. I like the processing on the building as related to the general look of it. Some problems that are commonly penalized here on DPC such as an 'overprocessed' look (although that one's a bit pot luck on how it's received IMHO - some people manage OK with an overprocessed look for certain reasons), blown highlights and not-smooth color transitions. I am guessing from your comment 'a different approach for me' that much of this you are aware of and at least some of it was intentional.

Specifically:
- The whites in the clouds are blown. This could be avoided by bringing the midtones up using curves (or levels if you want the slightly more complicated route) instead of brightness and contrast. It appears that your pushed the brightness of the building since it seems quite bright.
- The blues in the sky are too strong and not natural looking. Again, this may be intentional, but it's just a bit over the top I think... The sky is not a major element of the picture, so there's no real reason that it should be emphasized so strongly. This could be a result of pushing the saturation too hard, or something else, but a possible solution (and legal in basic) is to use saturation on a specific channel and tone it back a bit. Selective color can also help here if needed.

#3 Lines. Honestly, I'm not feeling anything from any of the lines in the picture. None of them are specifically pushing my eyes in any particular direction. For a picture full of lines, none of them seem to have much purpose. It could be worse.

Bottom line, I think the subject of the picture just isn't that DPC friendly. If it were for a newspaper article about a record store called the family dog or something, it would be fine. It's a decent presentation of the side of a building.

I think it would have been helped a lot by a skinny kid in running shoes with no socks bouncing a basketball though. or something...

Every Picture Tells a Story
by SandyP

Comment:
killer shot. Love the ring.

This would look fantastic as an anti-smoking poster with a caption: Happy 25th Birthday from your friends at Marlboro.

hee hee. :)

d i S c O n n E c T
by timfythetoo

Comment:
I'm sorry that I had to add another favorite to this one. it's just so damned striking, I couldn't help it.
:)

1
by whiterook

Comment:
;) I guess the point is that you never really know what is intentional in a whiterook masterpiece. Always something going on that builds the mystery! *big smirk*

d i S c O n n E c T
by timfythetoo

Comment:
A real standout on the front page. Nicely done and congrats on the 0 1's. Woo!

Billy Bob Teeth
by robst

Comment:
man, isn't it ironic that the bottom rung shot is probably the coolest gift of them all.

100 pairs of socks: ask for them and you get them!
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
Ditch the border if you want to go lower.

Oddly enough, this is what I've been asking my mother to send me for a few months. Very hard to get decent socks here since virtually nobody wears socks here. Important for me since I've been here close to 4 years without going back.

It seems that the wal-mart near her house stopped stocking the regular sized socks and only has kids size and 14-17. Now I know why.

Next year I'll ask for something better....
by ErikV

Comment:
I don't know, maybe next year ask her to stop driving ferraris?