This is the voting thread for the February 2009 "Cityscapes" photo contest.

You may vote for up to six photos! Good luck to everyone as always!

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[Stomie]

...even amongst the numerous very good images. The quality level of sharpening was very lacking & (my aversion) a slanting horizon was too common.

My considerations in voting were:

1. Technical integrity:
Sharpness (when & where visually important), a properly aligned horizon, free of noise & other technical aberrations, framing, appropriate brightness, tonally anchored (true black & white existing somewhere in the image)

2. Content:
Harmony in tone & colour, balance of compositional elements, dynamic & engaging.

3. Successful delivery of the Brief guidelines.

In brief, the best to me were:

fs999's - Paris Sunset, visually excellent but being very soft & unsharp power & impact is diminished.

TaoMaas's - Golden Windows, nothing to criticize here, very well captured, great composition & framing, nicely pped.

cbaytan's - Is a City all right, excellent image, but does it meet the Brief? To me, yes it does. What may be a village to some, could very well be a city to others. Excellent b&w conversion, great depth in perspective & drama

skeuos's - Refraction, excellent tonal treatment of shadow detail, highlights, & composition. Dramatic.

xs400's - San Francisco and the Bay Bridge, excellent visually, moody, great perspective & again, unnecessarily soft.

travieso profundo's - When The Sun Leaves Valencia, excellent capture & mood, great pp treatment, perhaps could be a little brighter in the mid tones & highlights. Is it leaning a little to the right?

bt*ist's - Canyons, ordered chaos, very nice b&w conversion, drama, tension & somehow a little scary.

Thanks to all who submitted. I enjoyed looking.

Cheers
Stomie

[Ole]

On the voting form it says "pick 6", on the result page "you may vote for 5 fotos"... which one is it?

Six it is, the typo has been fixed.

[dazman]

A wonderful collection of entries. Great effort to those who entered

[Peter Zack]

Remember to refrain from commenting on individual photos before the voting ends.

[JEF]

Wow there were some wonderful shots. I had it narrowed down to 9 so I took the clairity and realistic shots as my guidelines...

[BAB]

Wow! Superb group of photos. Choice mainly depended on initial reaction. Great job, dudes.

BAB

[Dhruba]

I voted for two photos.

[Stevopedia]

Great work, everyone! Some of 'em are real killers--and I found out that I'm a sucker for a pretty bridge...

(Note to self: make submission in next photo contest.)

[denkami]

wow .. whole pictures are so beautiful , wonderful !

[m8o]

I'm still @ 9. Haven't gotten it down to 6 yet.

[digitaddict]

Congrat to every one here...
Difficult choice I did.
marc .

[uccemebug]

I know it's traditional to heap praise, but on my first pass I only found 3 to vote for. On closer examination I was able to extend this to 6. Given the wide-open nature of the category I found it surprising there weren't more stand-out shots.

I agree with you. Usually I have a tough time getting down to the limit, but this time I only voted for three.

[TaoMaas]

I know it's traditional to heap praise, but on my first pass I only found 3 to vote for. On closer examination I was able to extend this to 6. Given the wide-open nature of the category I found it surprising there weren't more stand-out shots.

I think it may be a matter of taste. Perhaps cityscapes, as most folks seem to have interpreted them, aren't your thing. I think there were plenty of shots worthy of a vote.

[ford prefect]

sadly my voting is skewed i dont currently have internet access at home and at work anything from fliker or photobucket is blocked so i had about 50% less to choose from still not easy picking only 6

Well done to everyone that entered, encourage other members to enter.