No U Turns!
by Artifacts

Comment:
nice composition and great capture - how long did you have to wait to get that one? it seems a little oversharpened, though.

School sign from children's perspective
by Pep Ventosa

Comment:
yup, that's just how i remember it! interesting take on the subject - i really feel like i've been put in the school child's shoes when i look at this. there's a lot of distracting lines in this shot, and the sign itself seems a little too much in shadow/undersaturated. overall good effort but with room for improvement.

"Sign of a Dulled Existence"
by Nowhere_Man

Comment:
of the signs that "say what they mean," this one is the best. Nice work on the saturation/desaturation. good composition with the angle and the negative space - it would have been nice if there wasn't a bisecting sign, but you can't help that and your choice of angle shows just enough of it so that it doesn't intefere but doesn't look like you tried to hide it either.

Rue du Champ-de-Mars
by mariomel

Comment:
spartan, yet dynamic composition. i love the color and texture of the bricks. you angled this just right for capturing the geometry of the pattern properly. nice work.

swamp sign
by grigrigirl

Comment:
this is great. original sign but not one of the desperately ironic, gorgeous textures, nice composition, interesting saturation values.

gilr-rock-ps.jpg
by darcy

Comment:
In case anyone is wondering, this isn't my "normal" work. I Photoshoped this image to death to prove a point in a discussion in one of the forums. Now that the advanced editing rules have been established it will be interesting to see how many people turn in images like this one. Either way, my point here was that this kind of PS work will never score high at DPC and rightfully so - so people needn't worry about Photoshop ruining DPChallenge...

Magic Mushroom
by darcy

Comment:
Thanks for the great critique, Deannda.

To answer a few of your questions, and to be clear, I did not "mold" the shape in PS. In upping the contrast, the shape formed itself. I used the eraser tool to clean off some of the colored fringing around the stem. The dodge tool was used to bring out the colors around the cap. I consider this photo-editing, quite different from digital art. I did not make this mushroom in PS, I brought it out in the image more clearly.

Funnily enough, you weren't the only person to see this as a floor to wall shot. It was actually a wall to ceiling shot. The slats are on the ceiling, the light is a fixture mounted to the wall. I kind of liked the slats as the helped me see the definition of the cap, contrasting it from the stem more. I do see your point about the blown out light - I'm typically a little less concenred about issues like this in photography, but appreciate the comment nonetheless.

Thanks again!

Yahtzee Shapes
by ScantyNebula

Comment:
the texture of the dice seems a little oversharpened and the focus is a tad soft.

great use of color with desaturation, and the action is very nice.

nice use of lighting, though i find myself distracted a little by the contents in the backround.

Round as the moon
by Wildpurple

Comment:
the blue fringing is hurting this image. the photoshop rules are lifted. perhaps you could have fixed this with the clone or some simple painting? i like the size of the moon and the composition. great detail with the craters!

Three of a Kind
by Neuferland

Comment:
if you could have rotated this a smidge in photoshop it would have made a big difference. when pictures that depend on symetricality don't come out fully symetrical it has a big impact on the photo.