Bad smells on the beach...
by RiderGal

Comment:
Fun image. I think I would have cropped in as closely on the left, to balance the edge of frame on the right (so lose a bit of the elbow, basically) to make it look more deliberate and even. Keeping the sand is understandable, but you've got all the information about 'beach' in those reflections in the shades.

Peacock Mating Ritual - Unedited & Uncensored
by ccraft

Comment:
Love the sense of surveillance photography here - those foreground leaves. the fframing is difficult - the obvious suggestion is to get the bird more strongly in frame, but if you cut off the more in-focus of the yellow grass elements image right, those foregound out-of-forus bits become simply a distraction: this way they have a point of origin, which makes them understandable and thus not a distraction (for all i can imagine the other comments). I wonder if you've got slightly too much blue on the thing's head? Has a slight look of colour clipping, confusing the sense of texture there for me.

Companion In A Shadow
by GolferDDS

Comment:
Nice work. Personally, I think i'd have tried to get a touch more detail into the real figure - drifts a little close to the silhouette end of things around his upper body - to increase the effect of the contrast between him and his shadow. A nice study.

The SALOON - 1880
by Gringo

Comment:
This so clearly has the look of a hyper-active dodge tool that it's bound to be just real. It has a really odd sensation of being tilted to the right a touch, although it's an optical illusion, checking with the edges of a window - but it's one that won't go away, for me, and adds a weird dynamic to it: can't work out what's causing it.

Beautiful shot, for sure.

the old barn
by ursula

Comment:
Fill-flash, Ursula? I'm still in PSP8 world, where that doesn't exist - but I'm guessing it's a kind of automated selective lightening thing, yes? So you can shoot under-exposed and use it to bring back details in darker/shadow areas?

Timber & Bricks
by robsmith

Comment:
Yours Rob? Good. Everything I wrote before I still agree with, but just wanted to say that I wish there were a damnit--so-close-to-being-a-favourite category, as this is just a whisker of getting into mine. Just that edginess of texture not quite there ... Great work though, a memorable shot.

the old barn
by ursula

Comment:
I don't believe this is your first blue Ursula - excellent stuff. I'd love to know some details about the processing/conversion - wonderful work.

The Eccentric.
by docpjv

Comment:
Like your timing - that eye through the broken glass is precious. The centred/non-centred composition works reall well - the shape of him in frame is nicely symmetrical, and yet the natural pull of the viewer's eye tto the subject's eyes takes one to a strong plane in the image. The thoughfulness, and the direct look you've captured is effective too. A man with a truly non-self-cntred view of the world - I like him immediately.

Care Free
by Jean

Comment:
A make-you-smile shot - looks like real fun. This composition works quite well - I wonder though, if something closer, more wide-angle, mighn't have given a heap more dynamism to the shot, more sense of physicality?

Shelter
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Love the treatment - but then I would, as it's pretty close to my chosen tonality for people shots. A fine image, though one would of course wish for a little more visible face - and yeah, I know that's hard.