Steam Engine on Ice
by andy4444

Comment by MaryO:
Nice composition, but a bit fuzzy and I think I'm seeing sharpening artifacts around the edges of the train. Shame about the date being on it.

Steam Engine on Ice
by andy4444

Comment by arjunas:
too oversharpened, which has caused a halo effect.

Steam Engine on Ice
by andy4444

Comment by theSaj:
Um, this would have been great....EXCEPT FOR

21/10/2006

Which, you could have cloned out in advanced editing. ;)

I am sure you've received tons of these comments...haven't you. Well I'll hold my finger over the bottom and score as I would have without it. ;)

Steam Engine on Ice
by andy4444

Comment by klstover:
Definitely taking advantage of the maximum allowed filesize (150k) would help in the future, to avoid the pixelated look.

I like the composition and concept of this shot.

Steam Engine on Ice
by andy4444

Comment by mist:
You just know when you enter a shot with a date stamp on it you're likely to end up somewhere in the bottom end of the results. Please consider turning it off for challenge shots. In fact, you could even turn it off full stop. In digital shots, the date of the photo is recorded in the image's exif data anyway (file-properites-advanced on a jpeg straight out of camera in windows). Aside from that, I think you've got a great concept, mostly let down by what I think is data loss during saving (probably low quality jpeg save) or other resizing issues that have caused blockiness throughout. Either that or it's a low megapixel camera.

Steam Engine on Ice
by andy4444

Comment by dallasdux:
The challenge was definitely met, but the image is very pixelated. It looks as if the photo setting on the camera was too low (for compression) and thus the image comes out pixelated/grainy/slightly out of focus.

Steam Engine on Ice
by andy4444

Comment by rayg544:
So cool!!! EXCEPT - I'm sure a whole gang of folks have told you. (The file information will give you the date)!! Nice shot though! 9

Steam Engine on Ice
by andy4444

Comment by bmora:
DQ?

Steam Engine on Ice
by andy4444

Comment by smurfguy:
This is going to score low because of the harsh JPEG compression visible: in the blue of the ice, there are blocky JPEG artifacts. Around the datestamp (probably not a popular option to leave turned on) there is a lot of JPEG noise.

On the up side, the composition seems pretty nice, though the train may be just a touch dark.

I assume that you have a low end camera, so I feel your pain. I had a cheap Kodak point-and-shoot for a long time which produced very blocky looking images. I hope you can get a better camera soon!

Steam Engine on Ice
by andy4444

Comment by Rino63:
and now????? WITH THE DATE ON THE LEFT YOU HAVE DESTROYED THE SHOT!!!!!!!!
sorry I like this image but 4.