always on my mind
by B74A

Comment:
Nice moment - a little contrast work might have been more sympathetic to the skin tones, which seem overly pale and washed out here.

Silent Night
by Artan

Comment:
Good capture of light, but I feel it might have been done with a touch more care. The composition is fine, and the balance of the direct and reflected light is as good as could be wished for, but there's a sense of a tilt to the image - real or imagined, it's enough to upset the eye, and there's a sense of lack of detail in some areas without the single area of perfect sharpness to make a point.

Moonlight Sonata
by jenesis

Comment:
Oh that you might have moved your viewpoint to move the moon's reflection away from the boards ... or to hide it completely. A nice still image, but the over-exposure of the moon, and the ghosting of it, and, again, that reflection rather spoil the simplicity of it for me.

Joy of Speed
by goc

Comment:
Great image - especially the umbrella. Processing is good too - and naturally, black and white is perfect for it. The package and the brolly make a nice adult vs childhood point. I like this.

The Sax Man
by AP

Comment:
The sharpness of the figure and the softness of other elements at the same distance gives this a strange non-photographic feeling: almost suggesting that you weren't confident of the composition alone to make your point. With thos background figures I can understand why. Tonality is good, although for me I would perhaps have preferred a slightly stronger contrast.

echoes of light
by rhipster

Comment:
Don't like the lines breaking the border - especially the choice of an out-of-focus one to do it with: seems gratuitous and strange, and takes away from the photographic nature of the image and makes it about the framing of the presentation rather than the photograph.

December Barn
by JeniY

Comment:
Nice shot, solid composition, good processing other than perhaps allowing the brightest part of the sky to go too far in the white - I appreciate the difficulty though. I wonder if you shot this RAW, and if you might have mixed a couple of exposures to calm down that extreme brightness ...

The Thoroughbred
by Stagolee

Comment:
Fine image of the power of the animal - and perhaps the best mid-stride pose one can get, showing the full extension. I'd perhaps have preferred the exposure a little under this point - the whites are just blown, and and easing of the overall sense of brightness might give more tonal balance to the whole image.

Christmas at Casa Rio
by dleach

Comment:
A remarkable scene, though i think you've perhaps over-exposed it, or perhaps rather not brought the overall brightness completely under control in processing - more dark to balance the brightness would help the impact of the shot.

Impending Storm
by 2mccs

Comment:
Quite pretty - but just quite, to my eye. Could use more saturation, and possibly contrast in the foreground areas to give it some bite; and the sky lacks a little drama. That's in DPC terms, of course: I'd say this is a good honest (ie not over-dramatised in processing) photograph, and deserves to score better than it will. Do have a slight feeling that it might have benefitted from a touch of final sharpening for the presentation here - but that's almost just a matter of taste.