Winter flowers
by ursula

Comment:
I love the pastel colors here. Are those flowers made of glass? They have a very nice texture to them, especially the purple one. Overall I think the composition is nice but the crop might be a little tight for me. I would give it a little more negative space on the top and to the right. I enjoyed looking at this one and gave it a 6.

Greg

Primaries
by ruthiek

Comment:
I like the use of color in this picture. The colors are very bold and I like the simplicity of the picture. The color totally makes this picture. I think the composition might be stronger if you offset the blue lines a little more. I wish the lines were a little sharper but it is only a minor thing. I like it and I gave it a 5.

Greg

Japanese Garden
by lykofos

Comment:
I like all the colors in this picture but I think you might be running into resolution limitations here. This is a picture that contains a lot of detail and the limited resolution we are given to work with eliminates a lot of the detail. This lack of detail really takes away from the impact of an otherwise great picture. The way it is now the picture looks too busy. I think the composition looks good and I think you have done a good job considering the difficult nature of the subject. I am giving this one a 5.

Greg

Yellow
by mirac

Comment:
This is one of my favorites for this week. I love the use of color and I really love the subject matter. Whatever lens you used for this one has great bokeh. The DOF looks pretty good on this picture but it might be better if you had just a little more (maybe 1 stop smaller on the aperture?). The reason I say that is that the antennae look soft to me but the body looks great. I don’t know what the rest of the picture looked like but it might be nice if you left a little more open space on the left side of the picture. I gave this one an 8.

Greg

Great Egret Beak'on of Color
by progersct

Comment:
This is the kind of picture that I love to take. You must have a pretty long lens to get one this close. The focus looks a tad soft to me, I am guessing you might have hand-held the camera when you were taking it. It would be nice if you could have made the picture a little bigger (like 640x480 resolution) so we could see more detail. The orange really stands out due to the lack of color in the rest of the photograph. You might try boosting up the saturation a little and adding a bit of contrast. I have found that upping the contrast can sometimes make a slightly un-sharp picture look sharper. As far as composition goes I would like it better if the crop wasn’t so tight. As it is right now the picture “feels” somewhat cramped. I especially find the way the beak is touching the edge of the picture disturbing. I think you have a great start here and with a few minor modifications you could really have a high-quality picture here. I am giving this one a 5.

Greg

Weeds
by one66stang

Comment:
I love to take pictures like this one. In fact this looks very similar to some I took over the weekend. Overall I think you did a good job here. It might have been better if you had clipped off the one closed bud in the background and went for a little less DOF. The grass in the background is a tad distracting.

What came first?
by Parentx

Comment:
What a rip-off. I guess there are too many uptite people in here, I fully expected this pic to get 1st place. GREAT PIC! I was laughing about this one all week long. It is the one pic that really stood out for me.

Greg

Self Potrait
by adriannayusof

Comment:
why despair? You look like you have a lot to hope for.

HURRY!! I can't hold this pose much longer.
by margie

Comment:
I think if you had used a larger aperture that this picture would have benefited. The background is pulling my attention away from the bird. The bird’s eye seems soft to me.

Greg

Stella Harmony
by goodtempo

Comment:
Maybe it is just my screen, but this picture looks a little bit soft. I like the lighting on the strings and the composition quite a bit though.

Greg