Galactic Formation
by mycelium

Comment:
How did you not ribbon with this?!! In Basic no less!!!!

Pure genius - you can be sure I'll give this a try myself...

Casino Royale - The New & Improved 007
by JawnyRico

Comment:
You left a nice comment for one of my entries this week, so I'll leave a little constructive criticism for your recent 'Bond entry (please take the following with a grain of salt, I'm a better critic than participant here - lol!):

This one could use a bit more than just fixing the hand, IMHO - to me it looks a bit washed out. You've got all that black there - you should take advantage of it - love it, ya' know? Image could benefit from a little sharpening - particularly around your face (modest USM or high pass technique then a little contrast boost overall). Your key light was way too hot & hard and could have benefited from a little diffusion - since you can't do that now, I would try to burn the highlights down on the chips (well, mid-tones & highlights) to even out their exposure. The last thing I would do is maybe add a little vignette, perhaps, plus a saturation boost.

This challenge was using advanced editing rules so all of the above would have been legal. You got a very decent score in the challenge because of a great idea - great editing would have gotten you a bit more mileage!

Some of your black level issues (from my POV) might be from a slightly mis-calibrated computer monitor, so check that. Who knows, yours might be a bit dark & mine a bit light, but as a professional I try to keep mine up to spec!

Good luck & thanks again for the nice comment!

Sad sad world
by benpictures

Comment:
An incredible subject! :: love the photojournalistic feel this perspective gives, but leaves me curious for more detail :: great tone without too much contrast :: would have liked just a tad more DOF with a bit more sharpness -- 9 --

Golden Slumbers
by dsidwell

Comment:
Nicely framed :: nice color tones :: tree spacing & pattern is quite nice :: great positioning :: a bit too much contrast for my tastes | detail gets lost, maybe due to too much compression? -- 8 --

Who pays the ferryman
by fredandaud

Comment:
Very nice symbolism, would have liked to see our subject appear more death-like, but I imagine you were being opportunistic here. The water has a very nice texture & pattern & I love how it all fades up & away -- 8 --

going home
by clangley50

Comment:
Very emotive - almost miss the O2 tube at first & therefore the setting :: good choice for added grain -- 8 --

Triumvirate
by Brad

Comment:
Lovely DOF & bokeh :: framing is creative but feels a little unbalanced :: nice texture -- 9 --

Attrition
by whiteroom

Comment:
Lovely detail & evocative imagery :: framing & composition are spot on for this one :: nice tone as well -- 9 --

The Seventh Seal
by alfresco

Comment:
"Love is the blackest of all plagues. If one could die of it, there would be some pleasure in love - but you don't even die of it." Jons, The Seventh Seal

Nice characterization, but you could have made Death more moon faced, like in the original movie poster! 7

(BTW, what the hell needed to be validated here?!)

"Nose-Fax" (inspired by the ticker-tape wristwatch in The Spy Who Loved Me )
by Strikeslip

Comment:
This was perfect in so many ways - some people just don't get it sometimes! Congrats anyway...