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jenniferjensen March 19 2010, 03:35:31 UTC
Wow, thanks so much! Comments for 003/001 unscreened is fine.

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dannysgirlsg1 March 22 2010, 14:15:56 UTC
Light:

-003: (It's a little bit grainy. It's a great icon overall, but the others are just a bit more creative.)
-03: The straight-on crop isn't very interesting and the icon appears slightly oversharpened
+003: Wonderful crop, clear colours, perfectly sharp
+3: Gorgeous work! Love the play of light across Daniel's face. I like the double interpretation of the theme; it's light and it's about light. Image quality is good and coloring is appealing.

Dark:

+01: creative crop and good contrasting on his face
+1: The crop is visually appealing and meets the theme. The b/w work is excellent and lends itself to the moody feel of the icon. The image quality is not quite sharp enough for the extreme close-up crop, which traditionally works best with an image that is crisp, high quality rather than soft focus. This icon does a good job of hewing to the darkness theme.

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hsapiens March 19 2010, 03:48:29 UTC
Comments for er, 001/002, unscreened, please. Thank you!

Congrats, jenniferjensen! *throws confetti*

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dannysgirlsg1 March 22 2010, 14:12:10 UTC
Light:

-001: Two Daniels are usually better than one Daniel *g*, but here one Daniel would have been more equilibrated (reason)
+01: The coloring is great and the duplicate image very creative.
+1: lovely coloring

Dark:

-02: I like the crop, but the text is difficult to read
-2: hard to read text
+002: He looks really dark, dangerous and mysterious. I like the blood red writing very much.
+002: (Dark text for a dark icon. :) Nice crop and placement of the main image.)

(And sorry about the delay! Thanks for the PM to remind me. *sigh* I am being such a bad mod these past few weeks)

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hsapiens March 22 2010, 21:10:28 UTC
No problems. I can't tell you the number of times I go to post the vote for a week and think to check in on comments only to find that some of the stragglers haven't yet received their comments. There's so much to remember in running a LIMS; I have no idea how people do it alone.

As I feared, that text on the dark came out too dark. I have a relatively new LCD monitor and I think I have brighter and more contrasty images than others. I was fighting with myself over that and I see that I chose unwisely. ;)

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colls March 19 2010, 05:07:15 UTC
Strangely, I feel a relief of pressure ~ LOL! May I have comments for 002/003 please? Unscreened is fine.

Congrats. jenniferjensen & hsapiens for making it to the final round!!!

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dannysgirlsg1 March 22 2010, 14:19:45 UTC
Light:

-2: The icon isn't particularly light when Daniel is in the shadow. Additionally, the coloring is harsh; Daniel's face is red while the shadows are a greenish-cyan.
-2: doesn't really have any coloring done to it
+002: (The crop is great. I love how you didn't cover up the background. Daniel's face could have maybe been a bit brighter, but overall, it looks nice.)

Dark:

-003: The "triangle" in the background looks a bit strange
-003: (A little too blurry. The background is very distracting. )
-3: I like the crop but leaving parts of a very busy background in the final product was an unfortunate choice. The retained background details distract the eye from the subject of the icon without forming a coherent background pattern or setting for the character .
+3: nice coloring

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