You and Me are just Little Fishes...
by raish

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Commenting as part of my Team Suck duties...

Good use of HDR to get detail in the windons, facade and some of the sky, however, the colours are a tad flat and there's not enough pull to any point of interest in the image, so one's eyes just wander the image.

Daybreak, Schoodic Peninsula
by Bear_Music

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This is a stunning image and really deserves to have finished higher (IMO). It's yet another example from the Team Suck how to do HDR well... how to use the technique without overdoing it. Details and colours are brilliant.

Evening glow
by Melethia

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Very nice image, and another good example of how to use HDR for good, and not evil, in that your image has benefited from the increase dynamic range w/o adopting all the usual HDR cliches of haloing, black clouds/skys, grittiness etc.

I love the detail, colour and composition. Well done.

The Sk8er
by LadyK

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First... welcome back to the fold after serving your suspension...

A good capture, however, I think you've tried too hard to make it look like HDR... the overstauration, the haloing, the black grittiness... while all these are characteristics associated with HDR, they're not things that improve the image. I think there's stuff HDR processing can bring to an image w/o having to adopt these HDR cliche elements (IMO).

The Golden Age Of Steam
by SteveJ

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A good image. A little over saturated for my liking and I think it might have done better in voting with a tighter crop (top and bottom). Details are good, and you've the details in the smoke are brilliant.

Sammy
by see

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Great capture, and given the right challenge, this would have fair a lot better, but this doesn't lend itself to HDR (IMO). Colours are a little flat, and while I rate it as one of the images features, the lens flare probably hurt your score in the end too. Oh... also could have cropped just a tab more off the bottom to lose the white bit in the bottom right.

Ye shall not eat of it
by posthumous

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I think the biggest issue with this image is the centred composition... that and the fact that it doesn't look HDR enough perhaps, though your faux-HDR processing did a decent job of giving the clouds a HDRish feel. I'd ask you not to give up on HDR... I think there's a lot of good Team Suck and the like could do, artistically, with HDR.

Van Gogh's Choice
by Emerkaza

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The composition and colours of this shot are good, however, the processing has left it looking very flat and unnatural... there's also a little too much going on above and behind the main flower which distracts the viewer away from the main subject.

Wind
by colorcarnival

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I commented on this during voting, and I have to now say, this is by far the most under rated, under appreciated image of the challenge, in that I think it deserves to finish MUCH higher, score MUCH higher than it did in the end. I think 6.8+ is more like where it deserved to be which would have put you in the top 10... in my books... even with the issues I highlighted in my original comment.

I love the composition... I love the colour of the sky. Hell, I like this so much, I think it deserves a fav.

quietude
by skewsme

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I love this photo and am surprised it didn't do better in the challenge. I have no idea why, but perhaps b/c it may have been, as you said, not HDR-y enough. Shame. Composition, detail, colour... all wonderful, although, perhaps not enough colour for the DPC audience. That said, I wouldn't change a single thing in the image. Love it.