Making clouds
by vaguilo

Comment:
This goes in order of what I notice first:
1) Needs a better title...it doesn't sound like a headline.
2) Crop to the plane and the cloud, we don't care about the mountains or the sky around it, just the bright yellow plane and the pretty white cloud it's dropping...
Score: 5

New county courthouse graces Cleveland skyline.
by bobdaveant

Comment:
This goes in order of what I notice first:
1) Which one is the courthouse? I'm assuming the one o the left, but it would be best if it were cropped to just that building, since that is the main topic...
2) Great colors, the blue is a great backdrop.
Score: 6

Records Fall at Prefontaine Classic
by md8speed

Comment:
This goes in order of what I notice first:
1) Wonderful.
2) Maybe a bit tighter crop on top but there's nothing else I can say.
Score: 10

Charity Horse Show Names Grand Champion
by rmlutgen

Comment:
This goes in order of what I notice first:
1) Random limb! Eeek, that's bad... and the tip of the horses nose is cut off...
2) Great great idea.
3) Try some contrast to add some deeper color to the horse and it's rider, it seems too pale.
4) Great expressions on both horse and rider, if the arm weren't there and the color were a bit better, this would be scoring higher, but sadly it hurts it.
Score: 7

Local kid pitches perfect game
by ratha1004

Comment:
This goes in order of what I notice first:
1) Would this appear in a newspaper? - Yes. I like how the title connects directly with the photo.
2) Composition - Good close crop, brings my focus directly to the action.
3) Lighting - The backlight unfortunately puts his face into shadow, sadly, unless this was posed, there's nothing you can do about it during a sports game.
4) Great capture of motion.
Score: 6

Heat Wave Continues
by DougPaz

Comment:
FABULOUS!
This goes in order of what I notice first:
1) Would this appear in a newspaper? - Heck yeah! Perfect front page material.
2) Composition - Great background blur, but it shows that she's in a public place, which makes it seem not so posed. The horizontal crop/orientation is perfect for a paper.
3) Lighting - Great use of natural light.
4) I absolutely love the motion blur and capture of the water. Her expression is great.
5) I like how instead of showing the title litterally you showed how people are "fighting" the heat, I can just imagine this on the front page of a local paper and the article to go along.
Score: 10

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Aid drops continue amid missile attacks
by Kha0S

Comment:
This goes in order of what I notice first:
1) Good title (except for spelling, which I'm sure you've heard about already, just so you know, I read right over it the first couple of times), I like how you connected to current events.
2) Could you crop a little closer? It would give more detail to it all.
3) Up the contrast perhaps to give some detail to the plane, what's the sign on it's tail, is that it's other wing on the bottom or a fin? :) The sky overpowers everything else too much.
Score: 5

Wedding Season Has Arrived
by Paige

Comment:
This goes in order of what I notice first:
1) Okay cropping, get rid of the bit of her upper arm that is showing and the glass at the bottom, make the cake piece and their hands central in the frame to bring attetion to them.
2) The cake is blown out and it is distracting.
3) Overall good idea and title, the purple tablecloth adds some nice color, as does the green behind them.
Score: 5

Local man found dead after hit-and-run
by animes2k

Comment:
Too general of a picture.:
a- Okay, a man was hit, now why am I seeing numbers in the grass? Add to your title perhaps - "Local man dead after hit-and-run, investigation underway"
b- Crop to something specific like just the left hand side with the surveyor or to some of the numbers, give me a place to focus.
Score: 4

Mini Grand Prix Raises Money for Greenville Lion's Club
by andreblack

Comment:
This goes in order of what I notice first:
1) Crop to the action! I want to see just one car or one and the other behind it so that I know what is going on from the picture! (Newspaper challenge or not, it's too unfocused/not specific enough.)
2) I can't even see the lead car that well because it's black against black...
3) Good color otherwise.
4) Good sharpness.
Score: 4