Week 10 - Inside the Sugar Shack
by Ken

Comment:
There's a lot of stuff I love about this image: the mad off-centre composition, the motion, the blur around the mechanism, the detail, the light, the sense of accuracy, honesty in it. There's a slightly overdone smoothness that speaks of processing rather than of the image, and the real let-down for me: the vast acres of bland grey: I always find that an off-putting shade, speaking more of a desire to level out the tones throughout the image rather than communicating a sense of wonder at quality of light. Give me a sense of light and dark, give me s sense of texture, give me a sense of life; give me impact; but don't give me a histogram. It carries a sense of what you think you ought to do in processing, rather than of what you want to do. Be bolder!

Houses Of The Holy
by pawdrix

Comment:
Cookin' with gas, Steve. Delighted for you.

Heading Home
by spencerwood

Comment:
The Albert Embankment? Judging from the streetlights and the edge of what looks like Millbank Tower. I like the drama of the high contrast.

Here and there...
by Kali

Comment:
Great image; dramatic, radical (at least for here) and highly dynamic. Has a sense of motion, of relationships, of reality. Slightly crazy too, which is always good.

Sandstone
by Kaizer

Comment:
Excellent detailing here, and I'm kind of pleased you haven't resorted to the rather obvious and rather over-often-done HDR tricks to 'deal with' that sky; let us see photography, rather than tricksy processing. It has, as imagery, a rther ancient quality to it, oddly.

Sitting On a Cloud
by of-snow

Comment:
I'd agree with Steve's opinion re highlights; the whole thing seems muted really - and your white border only emphasises that.

Hello? Anybody... Hello?
by epescala

Comment:
Unbelievable, even by DPC standards that this doesn't even warrant top 100. I hope the favourites and personal ribbons are some consolation. Can't give you mine as I didn't vote the challenge, but I think you might well have made that mark. Great shot.

Taking it to the Hole
by Ironworker

Comment:
Very strong sense of action - which is admirable. I like that you've kept that where many people's default preference seems to be for sharpness over all else. The slightly muted colours don't bring much too it for me: I would imagine that either a higher saturation or a complete de-saturation and higher contrast would add still more impact. But I still like the sense of action and struggle and competition.

I, who have nothing.
by Noel_ZH

Comment:
Now, this is an animal portrait. Lovely work.

t h r e e
by aimeethetoo

Comment:
The light's more 'professional' in this one. But I prefer the other.