Toro
by GolferDDS

Comment:
This is one shot where selective desaturation really feels like cheating to my mind. Without it, your subject would presumably have merged into the background so much more, and separating it by use of a processing technique (read 'trick') feels like laziness to me. Also this is a very straightforward documentary shot - it tells me very little, asks me to find my own interest in the object, rather than showing me yours. It's taken from head high, it neatly includes all of the subject, and doesn't communicate anything of your feelings, likes, dislikes, interests in this subject, and it isn't such a very unfamiliar type of thing that it's simple presence is going to have impact of itself.

Broken car, spine and clavicle - An exercise in extraction
by kremkex

Comment:
Extraordinarily staged quality those work lights allow one to capture, no? I'm not certain about your framing - or cropping. There seems to be undue dead space at the bottom of frame, and a claustrophobicly close crop at the top. No visible head to the victim - a step to the right might easily have fixed that - and my immediate feeling would have been to get lower, allow the elements to distribulte themselves throughout the shot more.

Broken Home
by Geo_Griffin

Comment:
I think it would work more effectively had you framed the shell to the right of frame, and allowed your primary shadow to fall into the left of frame, which would give you some balance across the image - here, the constant movement of the eye is out of frame, following the shadow, and that doesn't help maintain interest in the viewer's eye. Neatly done however.

Collision
by thatcloudthere

Comment:
Wonderful documentary work. That blated out feeling to the processing is entirely appropriate, the juxtaposition of the ... oh, hang on, are those markes where the car's been pulled out of the ditch? The baby carriage adds an almost too good to be true element of the sentimental (no, that's not an accusation, just a wondering whether it doesn't over-egg the puddding). fine fine work - that over-exposure of the road allows the distracting elements there to become insignificant. I wonder though, for a scene which of itself holds great power to affect, if a vvery staightforward treatment wouldn't be the more effective for making the audience more familiar with the world it contains? I mean a muted but full colour treatment, keeping the full control of exposure everywhere? But I like it this way too. A strong contender in my book (though I expect that's a book that many won't find agreement with).

Crrrrrr...
by Gabriel

Comment:
I'm not certain about this - it's such an abstract kind of shot. The subject is clear, however, and the treatment quite effective, if a touch simple for my eye. In so many senses it seems more about design than about photography. Solid work though.

Shattered Dreams
by Beetle

Comment:
Strange. I can see the point of the desat leaving the rings coloured, but the pen? Really, though, it's so blatantly set-up that I think it undermines any sense of the emotion that might have been found here. Confidently done technically, compositionally, but lacks impact for me.

It Took Forever!
by tyt2000

Comment:
Beautifully photographed, beautifully lit. A real sense of fragility in those eggs. For me, it's a shame you felt you had to go further with the image - the prison marks undermine an exceptioonally graceful image. I wonder if you'll fall between two stools with this ...

Broken CD Surface
by Winterberg

Comment:
It's like a cage to me. One of the better approaches to a very common subject here, as much because your saturation of colour is so effective. Good sense of detail.

Busted Bus Stop
by redmoon

Comment:
Great light, and/or processing of light. Very strong compositionally - have you worked those shadows in to give the focus to the bus-stop? I think you have, but it's so well done as to seem like a co-incidence of environment. The subject is exactly where one would want it to be, the eye is kept occupied and there remains an over-riding sense of the real, which is an especial achievement in such a morbid shot. Excellent work.

Rail Fail
by charmayne

Comment:
Neat stuff. has a sense of the over-sharpened but at very low radius that makes the fince seen almost super-imposed, and is also reminiscent of Gordon Whyte's work. The grey winter afternoon, and light on the wood are good. Strong compositionally too.