03 Caitlin
by SandyP

Comment:
Great lighting, wonderful composition, bricks/stones add nice interest. Like the expression on her face.

Golden Pond
by Budya

Comment:
Things I like:
--The way the birds have their heads positioned identically
--Composition
--Ripples

Things I might change:
--Border line is just a tad too subtle, would choose a color that makes it stand out just a bit more
--Like what NI did to the water, but the birds seem a bit too soft. Never used NI, can it work on selective areas? If not, PS will allow selective noise reduction.
--Some people would argue that the birds should be in the lower right corner, that way they are looking into rather than out of the picture.

BTW, these are Canadian geese, not ducks. :-)

Hope this helps.

Winter Wetlands
by MaryO

Comment:
I am late to the commenting party, so much has already been said. Diagonal is nice as are the geese, the blues of the sky and water are good, like the color of the grass that is in the sun. Lower left corner is my least favorite part, seems a bit too dark, would like to see a bit lighter -- or, as mpeters suggested, getting up closer (or using a longer lens) might have eliminated this area from the image altogether.

Road side peace
by Quigley

Comment:
What I like:
--parallel lines formed by the grass in the foreground and the trees in the background
--your description of what this place is like other times of the year

Things I am less fond of:
--both sky and snow are mightly bright. looks like the sky has some blue sky and clouds, so making that darker should bring out some nice shapes. polarizing filter may have helped for the sky(depending where the sun was).
--lack of a point to which my eyes are drawn. the whitish tree to the right of center has some interesting branching; perhaps walking up closer to it would have made this a good point of interest for the photo.

Still beat my eggs with the old wire whisk
by IreneM

Comment:
Congrats on the great image and the ribbon.

stormy sunrise dpc.jpg
by saltwatershots

Comment:
Overall very nice, like the way you got the wave blury, nice scenery.

This is too centered for my taste (sun, horizon, rock with water washing over it and to some extent even the best part of the wave are all centered). Thus only advice I have would have been to take this horizontally, removing a chunk of sky and adding more of a view to the left. If you can't go back to redo this, then would crop top of sky to shift horizon further away from the middle.

Minor additional thought: consider selectively lightening up the rocks in the foreground.

Hope this helps.

IMG_9855.jpg
by twilson944

Comment:
Nice/cute shot, like the way the little one is posed, lighting is good.

Agree with other comments that it is too busy. The subject is the child (and not the toys) and you have too many distractions. Thus would
a) definitely crop the left to get rid of the bear and the lower green storage container (the bear should go in any case, because it is being rude by mooning us)
b) maybe crop the right (by an amount approximately equal to the left crop)

If you were to redo this, then would move closer, or move the little one a little further away from the shelving/containers, so the background becomes partially out of focus.

Based on the original, you definitely want to get closer (or use a longer lens if you have one) so that the child fills up the picture better.

Hope this helps.

Studio Entrance
by Germaine

Comment:
You certainly imparted a high amount of moodiness here.

alone
by UrfaK

Comment:
Nice series of rectangles, great perspective, very stark.

by Mephisto

Comment:
Like the photo with its empty space, like the drummer and his stuff, lighting is good. Agree about cloning out bright light, trying to decide whether cropping a bit off right would be good, maybe also clone out one of the items on floor in middle (the one closest to the bottom). Not sure I understand the relationship of the title to the photo, but then again I was neither an art nor an english major in college.