Broken Concrete (Made from Stone)by
RunzamukkComment by emorgan49: Looking for comments on a rightside up photo?
First, the plant seems to be the center of attention here and it is not in focus - DPC hates out-of-focus images much more than it hates upside down ones.
Then the colors are odd, just a little odd, not enough to be "creative" There is a purple cast to the concrete which will make the DPC voter think "This guy doesn't know what he is doing." If you meant purple, then make it more purple.
Your image is a unconventional shape. DPC voters are conventional. Is there a compositional reason for the long thin image? I don't think so, it looks crowded at the top and makes me think you were trying to crop out a beer can.
There are compositions that are pleasing to humans. Throughout history the rule of thirds, for example, has been a standby. When you break a rule, you should have a good reason to go against what we inherently find appealing. If you chose jarring, some people won't like it. We, in the West where most voters come from, read an image from right to left. Yours reads left to right. If you flip it so the plant is on the right you might have improved the score minimally.
Do you love this picture? Why did you want me to look at it so badly that you entered it in a highly competative contest? Can you explain why you feel the picture is worthy? If you love it, so be it. That's all that matters. If not, can you see where it needs improvement without asking for my opinion?
No comments IS a comment, the strongest comment. No comments says "There is nothing interesting here, nothing great and nothing terrible."
Opps, got all my left and rights confused - Westerners read left to right, yours reads right to left. I didn't mean to sound so critical, I was just trying to explain a low score based on DPC preferences which are rather conservative and anti-art. I was trying to say "Maybe it's not you, maybe it's the voters".
Message edited by author 2009-10-24 09:46:19. 
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