High Security 2 - or the uncontrolable evolution of technology
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Love the detail, the tonality, which is almost worthy of the master, I feel you haven't quite achieved that strong sense of the compositional uses of shapes that JJ has.

Visual Poetry
by Nonage

Comment:
Without going back to the orignal, and whilst this is a fine copy of that image, I feel that the fade to white is too sudden here - whether I felt that about the orignal I don't recall. Nicely done.

Driven
by bpickard

Comment:
Is this about editing or photography? I can't decide, for myself. The base photo is OK, but it's difficult to say that the impact of the shot is not primarily down to that motion blurring - and why doesn't it affect the radiator grill, and the badge, and the headlamps ... sorry, I don't like it.

Stop Whining
by Philos

Comment:
Almost lovely, and almost wonderful execution - it would be faultless without having taken the sharpening quite as far as it has been. Proper high-key work, solid composition. Dramatic certainly, but in terms of substance ... I'm not sure.

Limited Warranty
by sparkly

Comment:
Great colour, strong composition. It lacks something for me - just that edge of real shape from light perhaps. Nice work.

My Country Tis of Thee
by MJENNI

Comment:
Broken colouration too, is that it? A technically fine shot, although I have a resistance to the subject matter which won't cost you anything - but I have a stronger resistance to the wacky colouring: it makes the flag an unfamiliar thing, and yet your title suggests that it should be an immediately familiar one. Maybe the impression of confusion is one you wanted to sow, but to my mind it is incoherent.

Portrait of a broken door handle
by GinaRothfels

Comment:
Difficult to achieve I know, but there could be more sense of texture in the material of the door itself, no? Just to add that real edge of contrast to the metal of the handle? It has a feeling of a half-stop or so over-exposure, and that that has leeched away some of the tonality and finer detail in those textures. Nice work all the same.

Broken Biscuits at the bottom of a cookie Jar
by train

Comment:
Excellent light, good sense of texture, and I love that background for this. Spot on exposure, to my eye.

Broken In
by dsb_mac

Comment:
Good light, good tonality (although it seems to very oddly across the frame). Strong sense of texture and age - composition seems a touch forced though.

Lights Out
by Prof_Fate

Comment:
Nice composition - although I think your prcessing, certainly in terms of the darkening of the background, could use more work - it's really quite visible, and it looks like a mistake rather than deliberate. Likewise there seems t be a lighter area around the lightbulb that smacks of selection inaccuracies. Not badly lit at all - some real shape here.