Blood Lines
by colorcarnival

Comment:
Beautiful lighting and colours. Not sure about the yellow orb behind petals, however. Hope it does well.

death :: exit
by ericwoo

Comment:
Not too shabby...well thought out and composed, light and smoke effective. Sharp as a tack, (torch?) light trail well curved and neat and falling away to give dissappearing feel.

Dark Thoughts
by surfinbird

Comment:
Crisp photo, good tones, pensive mood. 8

Exotic Flowers
by karenk

Comment:
Soft lighting, beautiful tones, colours, good focus and DOF.

The Lights of Rock Hall
by ErikV

Comment:
Stunningly photographed, crisp clear colours.

The Pier
by danculwell

Comment:
Nice use of angles and lines Dan. Also odd that there are no boats docked at all?
If you did 1/80th handheld well done. I battle and use a tripod nowadays.

Did you try taking a few shots at exactly the same spot? i.e. gone low and made the poles look like giants reaching to the sky, this would have lost thier reflection in the water. Gone potrait and landscape. Fiddled with the camera settings and tried Sunlight, Shade, Sport, Building etc to see what came out?

Damn that place looks cold and wet.

Beneath the Waterfall
by ekmai

Comment:
Spelling fixed :) Go SC!

Unfolding
by janiece

Comment:
Hey. No offense was taken. Welcome. You did exceptionally well to come in 21st in a very low average scoring, debateable and subjective challenge. I would have cropped a bit tighter to get rid of the green Bokeh (background OOF area) that distracts. The blown whites in your petals can be subdued with PS (PhotoShop CS2/3/4, Elements or whu) but once white, allways white, you wont get any definition back by some PS Magic. IF you have the original file from your camera, make a COPY, keep the ORIGINAL unchanged, and look at Challenge Rules > Basic Editing Rules where Saturation and Adj Levels are allowed and redo the pic to lessen the harshness of the whites. I am no DPC expert but that's I hope a start.

Search the Forums > Site Feature Discussion > How'd they do that? and Learn > Tutorial

I found most of my Q's there. Other learning was done by reading, reading, reading comments, past and present, and looking at the Photog's Image Comments.
Happy shooting!

Message edited by author 2009-10-15 03:43:40.

Unfolding
by janiece

Comment:
My comment unhelpful? Strange. Obviously it's your find and a treasure to you thus i said:
DMC = DOES meet challenge.
(DNMC = Does NOT meet challenge.)
I liked the shot and actually gave it a 7
Oh well :(

Sneek Preview
by Connor

Comment:
Awesome result Connor. Keep up the interest and the dedication.
Next stop > "Lord Connor Smythe (Photographer) - Milton Keynes, England, by appointment to Her Majesty The Queen"!