Contrary to what people say size does matter, especially in photographs. In any challenge, you should take advantage of the size allowances and the kilobytes allowed to get the most detailed entry possible.
Smaller photos can hide softness of focus, and other ills, and all to often the voters suspect that is what has been done.
Overall I like the composition, lighting, exposure, contrast, brightness. B&W was an excellent choice for this piece. I don't believe color would have worked nearly was well. I really can't judge shapness at this size. There does not apprear to be any artifacts from over processing.
I like this picture a lot, and had it been full size you would have scored much higher.
I didn't vote, but I would like to address digitalknight's concern that you were "punished" unduly for the small size. The smaller the picture, obviously the more difficult to see the details etc. But, it can also hide flaws and such, that at a full size would hurt the picture.
I don't know what software you are using, but if you go to Learn>Tutorials, down towards the bottom is a tutorial for resizing for dpc. If you are using something other than photoshop, feel free to ask in the forums, or do a forum search for "resizing" or something like that.
That is an awesome picture, and the bw really does it well. Chrome is a very difficult subject to do well. I like the tight composition, and do think it might make a neat print.
so because it's not big enough voters punish you to THIS extent? This is ridiculous. No matter what size this is great composition and should be voted on for the photography.
I'm sorry. If I could change the small minded voting trends I would - :-)
The potential for this in a challenge with 720 pixels allowed was hurt a lot at 320 pixles used.
Certainly a good subject and one that lends itself well for black & white.
You may get this comment from others. If so I'm sorry for the duplication ... but it's just too small to appreciate. I think if it were bigger I could give it 2-3 more points.
Wayyy too small to get any visual bang from this. In the future, use all of the available space. If you had to crop down a lot to get something interesting, move in closer.
I bought a bike covered in plastic so I didn't EVER have to clean something like that after riding in the rain. I have 10,000 miles through ALL kinds of weather on the plastic bike this summer - I prefer riding to cleaning! :-)
I'll bet the size of your submission is hurting you here. Generally you need to submit 640 pixels max, but this challenge was 720 pixels max. So the voters won't be tolerant.
I hope you have a nice 5 mp image of this - you should crop it down to the pipes and the head, print it 36" wide and go sell copies at Sturgis! It's a very well done shot that won't get the consideration it deserves. It's art, and beautiful art at that. Nice work. 7 from me
I'd give you a "larger image, please" comment if I did not think that several other people will tell you the same thing. This photo's score will suffer because of its size I am sure. You have a lot of great detail and nice contrast, but because of the size of the image, it is harder to really take it in and enjoy it all.
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