TIME MAGAZINE: "One Year Later New Yorkers Rally For Peace"
by Rooster

Comment:
Should have done better and probably would have if it wasn't so politically charged. Only one of the desenters had the gonads to tell you though. Peace!!

edit* Those rally shots are great, especially "The only Bush I trust..." //www.pbase.com/rooster/peace_rally&page=all

Message edited by author 2004-03-29 09:45:31.

Architecture
by dinn

Comment:
I really thought this was going to get a ribbon. Congrats on your 6th place finish. :)

Ahhh Refreshing!
by LtHousLady

Comment:
Looks like it is slightly out of focus and you may have tried to compensate by sharpening - the sharpening halo/artifacts are visible on the top right side of the glass. Manual focus works better on glass if you are able to do this with your camera.

a light within
by LenM

Comment:
Greater DOF field would have shown more detail. The trade off is more noise due to slower shutter or higher ISO.

Looks! Bubbles!
by Rock

Comment:
Hair gel or something similar? I've tried to get pictures of thing like this but it is incredibly difficult. The main problem is focus or perceived focus. What you see with your eye is not what the camera sees, especially when autofocusing. The camera focuses on the bottle(container). For a shot like this you should manual focus on the bubbles, if you are able to. Less shallow DOF would work better in a case like this as well - the shallow DOF used only serves to make the scene seem more out of focus. Hope this helps. :)

Magic Bus
by jhart71

Comment:
Classic van dude(dudette). Your compositon could have been less symetrical. I think that would have made it more interesting. The glare on the windshield is very distracting and you have colour cast. This is easily fixed in an image editor: In levels select black, gray, and white points with eye dropper tool - fool with it til you get a good ballance - then unsharp mask 125%, radius 0.3, threshold 1 - I tried it and it works very well. Contact me after the challenge and I'll send you the editted copy if you like.

The Sign
by Mazer

Comment:
Well it falls witin the range of colours listed in the challenge outline so I can't fault you for that but I bet others will. Interesting composition but I think it would have been moreso if you had used a shallower DOF to emphasize the sign. Then again not everyone can do that in this type of situation - depends on your equipment to a certain degree I guess.

Potrait of a Skink
by KentuckyGal

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I think this would have worked better if the orange was a little more vivid, maybe by saturating more or playing with levels (using the white point and black point eye droppers you can remove some of the colour cast and make it more vivid, also USM 125%, radius 0.3, threshold 1 - I tried it - makes the image 100% better) Contact me after the challenge and I'll send the editted copy if you like.

.:spring breaks:.
by elpy

Comment:
Your focus is soft where the eye is drawn, which in this case is the center of the main flower. This detracts from the image. You could have done one of two compositionally to make this better: 1. set you focus on the center of the flower 2. Recompose/crop so that the "in focus" petals are in the center of the shot.

Carrots
by rj324

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I think if you had lightened your BG in Levels using the white point eye dropper then gone to curves to take out some of the shine in the carrot it would have been better. (I tried it - makes 100% improvement)