Shakes With No Quakes
by soheil

Comment:
This goes in order of what I notice first:
1) The title is confusing, but it's not affecting the score for this photo because I understand it enough.
2) The lighting is kind of blah, the sky is overexposed and bright, but the building (especially next to this gray website background) is uninteresting.
3) The repetition is nice for a different challenge, but for a newspaper it would have been cropped to only one or two rooms to get the point across, because that's all that is needed.
4) On the otherhand I like the overall composition, perhaps a more central position between the two to make the angles more even, it just feels kind of off...
Score: 5

Help yourself but choose wisely.
by melismatica

Comment:
What the heck, I understood your photo... -_- I don't get it, what happened in this challenge? This is a great photo that should have done much better! It especially didn't deserve 10 1s and 14 2s.

Your use of negative space/clouds & sky really draws your eye to the sign (not to mention with the red of the sign as you said). And there is nothing BAD about it at all!

Fremont Falls
by pitsaman

Comment:

Originally posted by pitsaman: Well,when you see a Snapshot of a pet gets more points than a classic waterfall/rocks texture with river leading lines and water at rules of third placed bellow the hill, you get an idea who is voting here !

Sour grapes indeed. It really does need to be cropped closer to the falls if you want a better score. Talk about looking like a snapshot.

A heart of ..... Orange?
by Trinch

Comment:
I didn't get to commenting on all of my 4 scores as I'd hoped, but here goes.

The border takes away from the brightness of the flower. Great DOF, but the angle just seems a little...blah. Perhaps from more infront or below, but the above doesn't give us the full effect. There is more yellow than orange, and the orange is not the main subject of the photo. Really beautiful clarity, but the colors, angle, and border hurt it.

sps - shaded plastic spiral
by carodani

Comment:
Eh, it looks really yellow/brown. I like the subject, it's a new idea, however, it's placed right in the center and really does not make the photo interesting there. I do like your cropping though, keeping everything even. Perhaps it is the light, but it seems soft to me and when it looks like that is paper, I'd like to see crisp edges. Score: 4

Orange turning to pink
by Shakey

Comment:
I really like the structure and the idea, but there are waaaaay too many distracting elements. The bright lights in the building on the left and on the bottom are bad. The ones behind it you might be able to get away with if you cropped of those. It also seems like the orange/pink structure isn't as in focus as the buildings on either side, I'm not sure if that is because of the lighting or what though. Also, try not to cut off the top of the one on the right. If you made this a horizontal picture it would probably fix most of these problems. Score: 4

The Subway
by Jametv

Comment:
Cool! Nice action shot. I would have prefered a tighter crop on the top to remove the ceiling of the station to focus the viewer on the train and the man. Is that jacket really orange though? It looks read to me with a yellow hat. ^_^ Score: 5

Lick it
by kanoland

Comment:
Wow, what an awesome bonfire! The purple is really cool, but the blown out white sections all over are WOAH, really bright! The solid black bacground and lack of noise are great, but the whole thing looks pixelated. I like you cropping, but perhaps less black on the bottom? Score: 4

Just a splash of orange
by Hax0r

Comment:
Really cool idea. Unfortunately I don't really care for the look. Everything is blurred, except for the metal spoon, but I'd like to see more of the liquid than just the bottom of the spoon. I do like the action. Could you have gotten the background to be a more even white and perhaps brighter? Score: 4

Yoked to Death
by simbamba

Comment:
Ew...The shell is orange, but that's not the main subject here. The bright red and yellow of the yoke draw the eye. The yellow streak is really distracting from the great plain black background. Maybe try using a horizontal crop. Score: 4