Battleship
by #1 Bronco Fan

Comment:
Photography is all about light. Where is it coming from (what kind of shadows does it make)? Is it hard light, like on a sunny day, or soft light like a day with lots of clouds? I like the way you used a light from above to light up the pins in the battleship board. They've got highlights on the top edge and shadows on the bottom, and the clear blue plastic catches the light nicely, too. You might think about zooming in on that for another picture.
It looks like you used a high ISO setting for this picture (or the camera picked one for you). With most digital cameras, anything but the lowest ISO setting will not give you very good results. It's better to add more light instead of "turning up the volume" on the CCD by raising the ISO. That's what caused the colored speckles. To make this one better, you might try making it black and white. Then the colored noise will look more like the grain you see on fast black and white film.

Dominos under the Banya Tree
by rampb

Comment:
Nice candid work - great catch on the expressions of the spectator and the player at L bg. Could be half as compressed (looks pretty jpeggy, esp on the board). Did you stretch this vertically to fit the frame? The heads seem elongated.

Paintball
by David Ey

Comment:
Nicely composed with the player's head on a third. An action shot might have been more interesting than crouching in cover. Mid afternoon makes for kind of craptacular lighting outdoors, but I guess that's when they play. Needs some CCW rotation.

Ten'll Get Ya Twenty
by Patella

Comment:
Now *that's* ligting control. Nicely done. Compositionally, it might be more interesting with the ball less centered - maybe closer to one of the nutshells flipped over? Some oversharpening shows in the edges of the shadows and tops of the nutshells.

Sin Is In
by Reuben

Comment:
Well done except for the shadow on S and I. Does draw attention there, but I'd have found another way.

Roll Over
by Sonifo

Comment:
Man... that's some tall grass. I sure hope no toy people were hurt. The car and streetlight in the bg work for {fake} perspective. Actually, without the grass and sharpening you might have had me going. Nicely done.

Buddha Angle
by risu81

Comment:
Thank you for resisting the temptation to rotate this fine image. Very nice duotone. {whack}

Through the looking glass
by Corey

Comment:
Nicely done. I'd have gotten in a little closer to emphasize the glass over the surroundings, but that's me. Odd how the glass, wall, and buildings in the far background show more lean than the two dark buildings at UL.

Blue Moon Spoon
by greenem2

Comment:
Oooooh. Very nice. Excellent sharpness and clarity. Face a little closer to the spoon, perhaps? The mixed lighting shows (yellow at R, blue at L), but it's a weird enough image (IMO) that it doesn't matter. Looks like an awful haircut.

Gotcha Covered!
by cameo

Comment:
False arrest, eh?