The Red Heart Public House
by MAK

Comment:
The processing or light here is very strange - the patches of brightness seem to bear little relevance to the visible sources of light, and one would suspect that they're added in processing. That, and the odd levels of shadow versus highlights make overall, for me, for a very unappealing image - processing running out of control, rather than photography.

Ship Ahoy
by rosiehall

Comment:
Glad of your title - might have missed it otherwise. Can't help the feeling that you might have made more of the textural variation and tonality of those pilings, and even emphasised the silhouette of the boat.

The Trek
by Rebecca

Comment:
The difficulty with the DPC background shade is that it's actually quite bright - soa high-key shot, as snow inevitably is, sometimes requires something to separate it from that background. Here, although your exposure is perfect, nevertheless many of the broad field tones of your image are very close to that shade. It's one example of a situation where I think some kind of border would serve you well to maintain the integrity of the image against that field of grey. Nice picture, but a bit twee for my taste.

Memorial lairomeM
by levyj413

Comment:
Neat work. Does it really need the lights at each side of frame? I can see why the answer might be yes, but they seem to lead to a distortion of composition, being not quite equi-distant from the memorial.

Standing Tall
by diablo2097

Comment:
Impressive - exposure is spot on, though these days perhaps that's less impressive than it once was. Suspicion of some heavy-handed darkening of sky, but overall good use of weirdness of lens in producing this image.

'Insert Clever Title'
by Shiva Das

Comment:
A thousand comments, no doubt ;-) Perhaps, you kneed a closer crop?

Red River Inlet at Full Ebb
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Without being a great follower of his stuff, I'd still have to say this was Robert's. It bears (forgive pun) the hallmarks of the HDR, and the compositional sense, and the flat-landscape. Fine work, as usual. I wish i could get more excited about landscapes these days ...

Trying-me-luck
by biggood53

Comment:
In a scene so full of textures, and without much interesting colour this should surely have been black and white? You've done well in this light to keep detail in the face without over-doing everything else too much. The dog's gaze takes the eye out of frame, which is a pity - it would cry out for waiting for the moment when the dog looks at the bloke, really; maybe that wasn't an opportunity, but it still detracts from the coherence of the image.

Delicate
by Ivory

Comment:
Strong technically - detail and exposure are flawless. I remain unconvinced about the pink collar - show more of it or lose it completely I don't know, but with just occasional hints of it it perhaps becomes distracting. If it were my pet i'd be delighted with your work.

The Red House
by Xilebo

Comment:
The foreground posts kind of confuse the composition - though i can see your thinking with the road. There's a strange lack of clarity to the whole presentation - slightly noisy, and lacking real fine detail: that could be a number of things, like under-exposure, simple lack of resolution, processing problems. The shot overall, I think, could do with more punch in the tonality - taking the bright points further towards white, whereas they tend to grey here. Also, the house is perhaps too far out of frame for a strong composition, feeling a bit crowded toward the right edge. It has potential I'd say, but i don't think you've really managed to bring it out.