remember seek (forgetting find)
by mk

Comment by mattmac:
I like the shell in the desat.jpg version much better...that would have been enough to bump my score from a 6 to a 7. I do like the composition.

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Not that you:
a. Asked
b. Care
3. Don't already know that
g.
)

IMG_2056.jpg
by mk

Comment by bucket:
wow..this makes me want to buy a lens baby...

remember seek (forgetting find)
by mk

Comment by Artifacts:
Positives:
Nice high short range contrast, particularly with the fingerprint and hand lines. Details are exceptionally well captured.

Technicals:
General technicals are very good. Given the high contrast, the sharpness is exceptional with the fine detail you captured. Brightness and lighting are right. The middle finger of the top hand is oversmoothed compared to the rest of the composition.

The boundary of color and BW is done very very well, considering how narrow it is.

If applied, dodge and burn is applied properly. If it was and I can really tell for certain that means you did an even better job. :)

The Challenge:
You scored almost .5 above the challenge average and by DPC standards that is pretty good. For this challenge that means voters liked this image a lot more than the others.

I only scored this image 6. For me that is actually scoring it lower than the group did. The reason for that is I felt the color in the shell was to intense for the composition. There was also a question in my mind as to the meaning of the colored parts of the image. There wasn't one for me. Both contributed to a low score. It is fairly rare for me to score an image so close to the group average. I'm usually far on one side or the other. :) Think I voted this image low.

Suggestions:
Just one... you might consider backing off the overall color saturation on the shell to make it more muted. The brightness of the yellow overwhelms the BW portions of the image.

remember seek (forgetting find)
by mk

Comment by mk:

Originally posted by Melethia: I guess I thought it kinda cliche and the "in color" portion too much in color to the point where it almost looks pasted in.

Agreed and agreed! I did a re-edit with seconds to spare and forgot to desaturate the shell the way I had the first time around.



I think I would have liked that better. I find selective desaturation overall to be so gimmicky that I had a hard time coming up with anything at all that would work, let alone something not mega cliche. Alas.

And I could never smite a Melethia. ;)

B&W Day 13
by mk

Comment by UNCLEBRO:
this is more like the MK I know and er, like!

It's a classic.
well, it certainly has that classic look to it.
if only the cars were old 1950's cars.
but, saying that, they work very well with the modern construction barricades in the gallery.

excellent.

remember seek (forgetting find)
by mk

Comment by Melethia:
I, umm, gave this a 5. Why? I guess I thought it kinda cliche and the "in color" portion too much in color to the point where it almost looks pasted in. Detail in the hands is good, lighting is good. Technical elements, in other words, are just fine. Please don't smite me now.

The Long Walk Home
by mk

Comment by Venom:
you portrayed the "air/wind" here good.

IMG_2056.jpg
by mk

Comment by Melethia:
A and B again. I quite like this location. There's a purpose, but not everyone remembers what it is. Somewhere, though, someone does.

IMG_2056.jpg
by mk

Comment by posthumous:
I hated that train. It took him away. I loved that train. It brought him back. And now I miss that train. I feel like I can't get anywhere. Worse, I feel like there's nowhere to go.

I don't really know what this lensbaby does but I can't imagine putting it to better use.

IMG_2056.jpg
by mk

Comment by pineapple:
Like backgrounds to classic Americana, slipping into the past (since everyone travels by plane and everything is made somewhere else and freight train, freight train ain't needed no more). I can see that vision , as a I lean up against the railroad ties, a bottle of cheap liquor rotting my guts, the smell of diesel, the taste of dust, too drunk to head down the line to the next flop house. Seeds of inspiration your photo...

Message edited by author 2007-05-29 14:27:06.