First Light
by autool

Comment:
Nice shot, reminds me of one of my shots from Scotland(!). Horizon well placed, breaking the frame into 3rds. Left hand edge of frame is too burnt out for my taste, and I don't like foreground diagonal leading my eye out of the right hand side of the frame. The foreground textures look a little soft... some sharp sand textures could have added some 'wow' to the shot, if you're using a DSLR you probably would have needed a tripod for the dof. Horizon on the right of the shot looks a bit cluttered. The footsteps are a nice touch, but are a bit too subtle. Some dodging and burning could have cured this. The sky could have done with a polariser, which may have solved your burnt out highlights. 5

The Beacon
by alanfreed

Comment:
This shot doesn't really do a lot for me... it's the composition that I feel really lets this down. The Beacon looks like it just happened to end up somewhere near the middle of the frame, and there is no clear pof... there are too many cluttered distracting elements here. The foliage looks oversharpened. I like the fact that it looks like you used a polariser. 5

Paris, Las Vegas
by Pep Ventosa

Comment:
Good composition, but not enough sharpness in the shot to keep my interest. This duotone doesn't quite work for me. 5

Mercy
by hopper

Comment:
Nice, sensitive portrait. The green eyes have been overdone here though. Shame the backlighting on the hair is overexposed. I find the background a bit too distracting. Great model... but there's something about her expression and her mouth that seems a bit awkward. Good composition, but perhaps a tighter crop could have worked better... do you really need space at the top of her head? 6

Fall
by ursula

Comment:
Some beautiful light, and I like the neatimaged clouds but the composition here is a bit chaotic to me. I'm not really sure what the pof is here. The trees and hills look way oversharpened... to the point of actually losing detail. 6

The Walk
by L1

Comment:
Nice shot... conjures up an emotive sense of ennui. I wish the man didn't blend so much into the background though. Not quite sure about the composition... too much room on the left of the frame and the boy on the right is too centered for my taste. It feels like it was an arbitrary decision to frame it like this because you didn't want to be unimaginative and place everything dead centre. The pylons on the right are a bit distracting. 6

Wish I Knew What You Were Thinking
by flip89

Comment:
Great capture, the eyes are extremely expressive here. The composition/crop seems a bit of an afterthought though, the eyes look oversharpened and the dof is too shallow. The white background element on the left of the frame should have been cloned out, it's quite distracting. The overall gamma seems very high, the photo looks a bit washed out. I'd lower the gamma and increase the contrast. 6

Munising Falls
by pitsaman

Comment:
Nice waterfall shot, but rather oversharpened. There's a plant to the left of the frame in front of the waterfall which is a bit distracting. Shame the waterfall itself is a little overexposed. 6

Naughty .... but nice
by agwright

Comment:
This shot doesn't really do a lot for me, but is well taken, evenly lit, effective background, good use of dof. There's a bit too much glare on the strawberry which you could have removed with a polariser. 6

In the Fangs of Shadow
by librodo

Comment:
Great portrait, good choice of subject. The face is much too high contrast for my taste though, and I don't think the out-of-focus hand works in the foreground. Great expression captured. 6