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Comment by vlado:
Commenting as part of my Team Suck duties...

Great capture, and given the right challenge, this would have fair a lot better, but this doesn't lend itself to HDR (IMO). Colours are a little flat, and while I rate it as one of the images features, the lens flare probably hurt your score in the end too. Oh... also could have cropped just a tab more off the bottom to lose the white bit in the bottom right.

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Comment by hahn23:
My first reaction to this image was, "that's a lot of purple fringing". The middle glaring light is tough to view. The lens flare is not an attribute. However, considering the difficulty of the capture, I'd say this is a noteworthy effort. 7

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Comment by ineedauniquename:
I'm not sure where the HDR is in this, I can't imagine that it is multiple exposure cos I reckon those guys are moving around quite a lot. One of those 'false HDRs'?

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Comment by Lelez:
Nice shot.

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Comment by JacksonGariety:
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Comment by Yo_Spiff:
The HDR techniques bring details out of the dark nicely, but it's not doing nice things with the lens flare.

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Comment by K3Master:
I shall be rating this challenge by the following criteria:

1 - Not HDR in my opinion

3 - HDR is way over-done, in my opinion

5 - A reasonable use of HDR, but not a very engaging photo, in my opinion

7 - A reasonable use of HDR, and an engaging photo, in my opinion

10 - A fantastic use of HDR, and an out of this world photo, in my opinion

Your photo receives:

5

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Comment by Lutchenko:
This has a snapshot feel to it and really doesn't say HDR to me

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Comment by rkligman:
Not HDR

Portrait in stone.
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Comment by codfish709:
Having a hard time linking this to the square theme. Like the strenght of the blue sky.