Sound and Vision
by amber

Comment:
Is this the work of a sound engineer?

Very nice tones and texture - contrast in the grille is handled very well. High contrast works well in b&w. Contrast between edge of frame and image looks fractionally soft on my screen - could be result of high contrast on lcd, rather than the image. I like this a lot.

Echo
by darkyoda

Comment:
The image is interesting, but IMO falls a little betwen stools. I like the repetition of angles in the roof and the crane, but to effectively featured that repetition as a central element, I would have included nothing but the roof and crane in the shot: the rest of the foreground clutters that part of the image. This may have been impractical (you would have had to have used a different shooting angle - I think probably by getting higher and closer to the roof line. To create a more general image (not focussing solely on the repeated angles), the foreground needs to be better exposed and add interest to the shot. This might easiest be done using the curves tool in PS (enabling you to lighten the dark areas without over exposing the bright areas).

The LHS of the image appears to add little to the photo and the crane is quite central (not always a good thing) - I would have played around with the composition a bit by cropping the photo in various ways to see if I could have improved it.

Overall, the idea is good, but the technical side (underexposing the foreground) and composition (not focussing hard on the interesting element (the angles), and/or leaving too much in the cluttered foreground) move this into the middle to low middle scores for me.

Hope this helps explain one viewpoint! Good luck in the future.

Why did the pigeon cross the road?
by hvaux

Comment:
Great timing. The pigeon really stands out against the motion blur of the background. Very nice image.

Serenity
by Nitrox

Comment:
desat really draws attention away from the subject - this is the opposite of what I am sure you intended.

a not so rare, flightless, DolomedesTenebrosus
by ralph

Comment:
you got there just too late - I guess that monster ate the bird?

Road Kill!
by mOTiVe

Comment:
black frame is appropriate, but not even on all sides (add the frame as the very last thing you do in editing). Subject matter is sad! DoF is excellent at drawing the eye.

Baby Duckling
by artvet

Comment:
love the colours! fluff on birds back looks a little soft - I might have sharpened slightly more. some oversaturation in the yellows is leading to loss of detail (eg back of head).

Dinner Secured
by jbsmithana

Comment:
fantastic capture. with a slightly shallower DoF the attention would be fully focussed on the bird and the moment you have caught so well. Have to mark down slightly as an image because the background is distracting.

Morning Gulls
by jmcotter

Comment:
bird on LHS is lost in the rocks. horizon feels a couple of pixels off straight. nice tones, though a little under saturated.

Red-winged Blackbird Wins the Slalom
by theSaj

Comment:
colours very dull here - composition and capture good.