Abandoned Dreams
by jessie

Comment:
Good subject, though framing it so very tightly leaves little sense of context and is inclined to make it just another ruined house shot. Control of light on the building, light and shade is good; a shame about the over-exposed sky's colour and very bright foreground - but those damn basic rules ...

Leper-hospital (XVII century)
by xoao

Comment:
Light - that's what lets this down. It could, in my view, be less over-exposed (this looks like what the makers of cameras think is an OK exposure), and the angle of light to your subject, an essential for communicating any sense of depth, of texture. This is obviously a fine subject for the challenge - but this presentation of it does it no favours

Abandoned (?)
by Tornike

Comment:
Detail and basic exposure is good here. You might usefully consider some ideas of composition, and simplicity of subject matter, I think.

May be she will come back ...
by vasilkovaya

Comment:
The contrivance of this reminds me of the work of Boyd Webb. It has that superb technical finesse - and that is seriously meant, as this is impeccable - but it seems ... well, to remove meaning from it, rather than to add it. A matter of personal taste only, but there you have it.

This Old Barn
by fplouffe

Comment:
Strong appreciation of the graphic nature of your scene shown here. I would personally want to add more punch to the image as a whole - just expanding the histogram a touch would add that - for the sake of impact for a challenge.

"Rusted house"
by babymadero

Comment:
Wonderful light, wonderfully captured - although I'm not sure the herd of voters is going to give your image the time to see that. I find the blockiness of the sky a shame - would have thought a more gently graduated element there would have been more sympathetic - though I understand the restrictions. Strong compositionally - perhaps, for me, even too bluntly so. I also wonder if there's quite enough allowed for the restrictions of the medium here - the file and image size, and the inevitable result that images that rely on complex interaction of elements and detail are like to loose that impact under those restrictions. nice work though; would like to see it at a more natural size and resolution.

Cute little doer upper...
by bandit

Comment:
The soft-focus quality (that sense of the spreading of the highlights) is well executed, although not to my taste. I'm seriously unsure about your cropping - so tight to the building leaves it no room to 'breathe' compositionally, and the cutting in half of the truck is simply a shame. There are details in the side of that building that are excellently caught, but that composition remains a problem for me: your audience's eye, it should alwas be remembered, will drift out of frame as soon as you give them a chance - placing elements of your primary subject that close to the edge is an open invitation. Nevertheless, there's enough good stuff here to put you in the upper half of the scores from me.

Closed Military Base
by RickH

Comment:
There are certain graphic elements tto this that i really like - the contrast of the barbed wire and the fence, the lines of the wire and the lines of the windows, and the block areas of subject. it must be said that it doesn't speak immediately of abandonment (and in a challenge with so many entries, many voters might be looking for any reason to put an image out of contention). For me, it lacks a sense of detail, of anything beyond that purely grahic quality.

V
by PDavis

Comment:
Or Y, or X perhaps. I like the feel here, there's a sense of washed-out-ness to it all, without losing definition on the right-hand plane, which gives the whole thing a mystical kind of quality. I'm not wholly sure that the framing couldn't have been better - stronger - had you placed the vertical smoke and plane more strongly in frame. But it's an effective image, nevertheless.

F / stop
by 2Shay

Comment:
Very very straightforward composition lets this down a touch perhaps - all you have is the tree, and the light on the grass behind to carry interest. I would love to see it against more of a landscape, to bring other elements to the image - and that would also help you not have to position the thing so absolutely dead centre of the frame.