by boysetsfire

Comment:
Wow, such nice focus throughout. Good lines and textures.

Ready to Fly
by Elaine

Comment:
Nice inversion!

Silent-Sticks (Day 2)
by cryan

Comment:
The tilt on this creates some interesting lines. Good eye!

Day 2 - Castle Hill Lighthouse
by CapeSail

Comment:
Nice! I sometimes get good skies out of my polarizer, when it makes the blue so dark.

Day 2 - Feeding Time
by bdenny

Comment:
Cool idea :)
I might like to see it a little brighter, a little highlight boost to really draw out the contrast.

Day 2 - B&W Challenge
by alexjack

Comment:
Nice abstract! I might like to see a little boost of the highlights.

Day One: F & S
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
Nice tones here. I think you've got one of the coolest faces to photograph on DPC, and I'm glad we get to see it so often :-)

Day 1: May Day
by Blue Moon

Comment:
I don't think you went "sharpen crazy" at all! I like the texture in the darker areas, the effect of the black on black. I don't mind the white ones to the side, but some of the background in the upper left is distracting. I think b/w often needs simpler backgrounds since color isn't available to us to pop the subject - it falls to texture and contrast.

Day 1
by walrus451

Comment:
Nice! I might try a slight burn over the lips to give them a little more contrast, but not too much since dark lips in b/w look like lipstick. Maybe over the freckles, too, since they're too awesome to gloss over. :-)

dead-tree
by poser

Comment:
One thing I find shooting b/w is that the textures need to be really simple. We can't rely on color to make our subject pop anymore, so the textures must do that instead.