A Clockwork Orange
by Amram7111

Comment:
The idea is neat, but your lighting is (forgive my bluntness) dreadful. Head-on lihgt, or on-borad flash, however soft, simply serves to make the objects nearest the camera the brightest, and thus the most attention-grabbbing: here, the hands. But the point of your image, surely, is the clockwork - yet half of it is shadowed, it forms barely 10% of the image, there's no sense of texture to it, it's hard to focus on without the eye being drawn to the left-most hand (no co-incidence that that's the brightest thing in frame). MMy attention is pulled between the hand that's in focus on the right, and the brighter hand on the left, and it's only by an effort of will that my eye moves to either the orange or the clockwork, and that doesn't make for an effective image.

Domino (http://romanticmovies.about.com/od/domino/)
by TampaDan

Comment:
Technically highly proficient, although it lacks that edge of reach-out-and-touch-it detail somehow. Photographically ... well; it just doesn't appeal to me. I'd want some kind of sensuality of light, or neatness of composition, or surprise with the level of detail, and I'm afraid I don't get anything from this that takes it past being a technically proficient photograph. Nevertheless, that technicality get you some points.

Snow Day
by pitsaman

Comment:
Good exposure, which is tricky for snow. Good job you put that border in too - given the closeness to the dpc grey of most of it. I would wish that hte buildings weren't there, they affect the sense of remoeness of the scene, the isolation. Use of negative space is very effective.

The Good Egg (1939 )
by gaurawa

Comment:
There was a shot somewhat like this in The Egg challenge, way back: the first challenge I entered. I even put it in mym favourites. This however, achieves more than that shot did - to keep this extreme high-key, without a real feel of simple burn-out, and yet to keep texture in the eggg's surface, and a sense of progression through the frame, is work of extremely high technical prowess. A graceful, immensley likeable photograph.

What Lies Beneath
by crabappl3

Comment:
This is comment number 2000. Thought I'd just mark that little landmark. And a very fine image to bring that up with too. There's a lot that I really like here too - the composition, the mystery, the sense of solitude, and space. it may onyl be a optical illusion, but there's a sense of the image being slightly tilted to the right that doesn't help the feel - even if it is an optical illusion, surely a touch of rotation to the left might have eased that sense? A beautiful shot, nevertheless. Top work.

The Fountain of Youth
by ahaze

Comment:
Good capture, good sense of mood, but almost every sense of composition has been sacrificed to that capture. It's a very fine candid shot of a kid - very fine indeed.

A River Runs Through It
by mcanyon

Comment:
I wonder if you haven't sacrificed too much, in fact all, detail in that foreground bottom left area in order to capture those reflections in that water. There is some interest in those reflections, but perhaps you've concentrated oo much on them, and excluded too much of the setting, of the context? The sharpening seems a touch heavy - there's a suspicion of halo-ing around the branches, and some jaggedness in the lines too - slightly too high a radius? 5

Harry Potter
by nova

Comment:
I only wish you could have matched the detail and sense of texture you've caught on the pot in her face; it just seems a little out of focus, or blurred, and a touch too dark. For all that, a lovely study of concentration and artistry - the shaping a moulding of her left hand adds a fine touch. The noise levels might have leant themselves to a black and white presentation, perhaps?

Gone with the wind.
by armin

Comment:
And I was expecting it to be Mary Poppins, but then no Nanny appeared. I like this, there's a certain lunatic (in a nice way) edge to the composition. A shame that that hedge line couldn't be cleaner - it feels halfway an accidental inclusion (although obviously not) for being so disorganised. The very featureless sky doesn't really help this kind of stuff, either, I think: the very madness of it requires a big bright sky, I would think. I know, you can't choose your weather; but ... well, the image still cries out for it, to me. 6

Practical Magic
by OFreasier

Comment:
The light, especially in the area of the cards and the knife, is lovely ... but i really wish you hadn't included so very much stuff in the shot. Together with the really very bright candles it makes it a difficult image to look at for long ... there is too much to remove the eye from the cards, and not enough to hold the attention once drawn. Simpler is very often better, and can communicate just as much if carefully composed. 5