DSS #34 Unofficial Feedback Thread - Inside Out or Upside Down

hawkeye978

Here is the official gallery to give your C&C for DSS#34

Gallery Found Here...

Once more into the fray. This unofficial feedback thread is a catch-all of sorts, lets make it happen:thumb

Anyway, let's start feedback on DSS #34!!

This thread is:

• a place to post a list of your top ten favorites. (be heard, and let everyone know what images moved you.)
• a place to post your "the making of my image"
• a place to ask someone "how did they do that?"(for us all to see:D )

Feedback is an important part of the photographic process. While those selected as finalists get feedback from the judges and those who vote, others are never quite sure where they stand. So share your thoughts both in this thread and with comments in the actual gallery. Constructive criticism should always be welcome.

It's easy to post thumbnails (with help from our Moderator).

With the image selected in the gallery, copy its URL from your browser, add "-Th.jpg" to the end, delete the jumble of numbers and letters preceding the hashtag (#), change "gallery" to "photos" and that's it.

Example

Change this url

http://challenges.smugmug.com/Other/DSS-33/9546126_UcMnF#646702914_YfHpk

To this

[IMG ]http://challenges.smugmug.com/photos/646702914_YfHpk-Th.jpg[/IMG ]

Happy Feedbacking :scratch

AndMan

Great work everyone.
Here are my favs in gallery order.

KevXman

Many, many good ones this round. Here are my Favs. There were a few others that were real near misses, but these are the one that spoke to me for one reason or another. Congrats and good luck to everyone!



— Kevin

travelways

KevXman wrote:

Many, many good ones this round. ...

— Kevin

Wonderful amazing entries! Very hard to choose from
- Glad I don't have to judge this one

Thank you Kevin for including mine into your favs.

I like yours too - very catchy colors and great processing!

I'll insert my comments as the time will allow me.

Congratulations every one!

JAG

Here are a few of my favs gallery order although there are so many I liked these just were the first run through that popped out to me...



If I get some time I will go back through the gallery more slowly...but off to work now...tata!

anonymouscuban

Just a few of my favorites:



And thank you to all who selected my entry as one of their favs.

richtersl

My faves in no particular order:

Smithy

These are my top 5... to me they show real vision, ability to catch the theme and a moment, and are exceptionally well done in my eye.

Halite

I've added my comments in the submission gallery for the images I selected as the top ten. There were at least five or six other images literally on the cusp of the top ten for me. I spent hours looking at these today and had to finally select based on small matters of execution or frankly just gut reaction to composition and subject. I will try to comment on as many others as I can before I head up to Maine for the Dgrin Acadia event on Wednesday. If you would like to have me comment on your image, please feel free to pm me. I'm honored to have been challenged by judging all your images!

quark

Thanks to all of you who put my little fish in the highlight reel here. I just voted, what amazing images this time! The creativity was really high.

e mari ad terram

Big thanks to the judges for putting me in your Top Tens. This is my first submission into DSS and I am very excited to be a part of the competition.

I have been in a bit of a slump lately with my shooting.

What a boost!

sherstone

Thanks everyone for choosing 'fandangle' as part of your top picks it's always cool.

GL to all the finalists I already voted. I found the round a bit tougher than normal what did everyone else think?

WhatSheSaw

Definitely a challenging theme for me. I think I'm trying too hard to come up with something really original sometimes. Sherstone, you succeeded in that regard.

MarkR

Thanks to Karrie McD, AndMan, Sherstone and others who commented on my entry.

A couple of people commented on the lighting. That was a specially commissioned Mobile Light Unit (her name is Kimberly, ) with a gooseneck desk lamp. Thanks, Kim!

Also, thanks to Charles, age 4, for holding still for 1/8 second. Thanks also to models Dick Grayson, Mamma Doggy, Mrs. Lion, Friendilini, Carter, and Carter, and especially Shaun the Monkey, who is resting comfortably.

And special thanks to Rembrandt van Rijn and Dr. Tulp (for inspiration.)

As always, I'm leaving my comments in the gallery.

ic4u

sherstone wrote:

GL to all the finalists I already voted. I found the round a bit tougher than normal what did everyone else think?

Agreed....I was struggling to come up with an idea on this topic, which, I guess is why I went so simple. Yours Sean, was very unique and creative as usual....
I just voted too, I was struggling between 3, so I decided, based on which one I would hang on my wall

The Curious Camel

Thanks to Ritchers and KevXman for adding me on their top ten.

It's always appreciated.

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divamum

I was so stumped (and short of time) that I didn't come up with ANYTHING, not even experimental ideas. Epic FAIL. It's funny, because when the theme was first announced I thought it would be a pretty easy topic and anticipated lots of ideas and loads of entries. Shows how wrong I am!!

sbarge

Thanks so much judges for adding me to your top tens! This was more challenging than I thought it would be. I had another idea in mind but I just couldn't pull it off. There were some very creative images in this round!

sgonen

Yes, this was a challenging challenge ... Thanks for picking me and for the comments - good luck to all.

sherstone

MarkR wrote:

That was a specially commissioned Mobile Light Unit (her name is Kimberly, )

You should commission Kimberly more often!

sherstone

Good to hear I was not the only one that felt challenged by this round. But we call them challenges for a reason so.... I think Kerry did a great job in picking the theme. Thanks Kerry!

MarkR

sherstone wrote:

You should commission Kimberly more often!

Commission her? I married her!

adbsgicom

Thank you to the judges for selecting "Back Bend" for the finals; I'm honored.

Thanks also to Joe, WSS, Diva, Linda, Wil, John, Sean, Kinkajou, Liz, Halite, sbarge and Mark for your feedback both before and after the entry. You pushed me to make a stronger submission. Thanks.

Best of luck to all of the very strong entries in finals, and I'm in awe of a great many of the submissions across the board.

angevin1

sherstone wrote:

Good to hear I was not the only one that felt challenged by this round. But we call them challenges for a reason so.... I think Kerry did a great job in picking the theme. Thanks Kerry!

She did! And I felt Challenged. But more than that I was impressed with most all of the entries. ............Lots of creative folks! It's fun to participate, but just seeing the final entries and marveling at the level of creativity as well as the inside out/up Side down thinking~

jeffgroves

The progression of the shot and the resulting touchdown.
I have had a few people ask about about this guy, did he score?, did he get hurt?, did you ps him? did you shoot in continuous mode?, so I thought I would share the shots for anyone interested. Yes, I did shoot in continuous mode and here are the four shots captured during that play.

1. Moment of initial impact. Nothing special here, other than the fact that it was the first shot in the series.


2. This is actually my favorite shot from the play. I love how he is keeping his "eye on the goal" as they say.


3. This is the shot that was entered in the contest. Not as upside down as the next but a better comp.


4. Score! Yes, he crossed the goal line before dropping the ball and he didn't get hurt (it would have hurt me!)


There you have it!
Thanks again to all that commented.

JAG

That is so cool Jeff! Ty for sharing those!

Anyone interested in how I did the "Reaching out of my world" pic can check out my 'how to' blog that I wrote up a few days ago on this very image. Thanks for all those who have included me in their favs and have commented in the album. I truley do appreciate your time!!

And thanks judges for adding me in with all the other wonderful finalists!

jeffgroves

JAG wrote:

Anyone interested in how I did the "Reaching out of my world" pic

Like when magicians explain how they did a trick, it all seems to make sense now that I kinda know. Doesn't mean I can do it with the same flair, but now I know. Thanks for sharing Joyce. You do have a magical ability!

Kinkajou

Alright, slackerpants here finally has gotten around to posting her top ten... geez, sometimes I just fall off the wagon, you know?

Anyway, here they are in gallery order: