Buterfly
by rickhd13

Comment:
In my opinion, insect shots where the subject takes up a significant portion of the frame, and the subject is centred tend not to work. This is because a viewer will want to focus on the eyes first, but the photographer has made an arbitrary centre of the insect's body the focus. The butterfly is also too centred vertically, I think it would have been much stronger if you had cropped a significant portion of the top off. Very nice butterfly macro other than that, shame that your background is a little distracting just above the butterfly. Great light, good detail. Shame about the glare on the foreground flowers. 7

Pepper People
by kostia

Comment:
Superb idea, great combination of colours, wonderful composition. I feel that your lighting let you down here though, the shadow on the yellow lets it down a little, and the green is a bit dull. Little bits of glare are very noticable in a shot like this. Very nice though, and I look forward to seeing what you can do with better lighting, as you obviously have a good eye. 7

leaf in running water
by deceptive

Comment:
I LOVE this shot, the autumnal colours of the leaf look great against the desaturated water. The border works well here, and complements the photo nicely. I personally wish that the leaf was composed diagonally across the frame... maybe from top left to bottom right. There's something about the top-down composition that bothers me. 8

I Can See Clearly Now...
by quadangle

Comment:
For heaven's sakes! I have got to get a digital slr and lenses just so I can take macros like these. It's not all just in the equipment though (but it helps!), as you have a VERY well taken shot here, much harder than it looks I suspect. Bit too much glare and noise for me to give above 8. Shame the background isn't more black. Did you try NeatImage? 8

Temptation Anyone????? SSSSSSssssssss
by marmik

Comment:
I hope you're going to turn off the date function in your camera for the next one... Interesting photo, I love how you've got the nackground burnt out. Interesting crop, works well here in my opinion. Think it could do with some significant sharpening to bring out the textures in the snake. Shame about the high levels of glare on top of the apple. Score: 6, but these issues could have raised the score easily if fixed.

A Little Life
by JPR

Comment:
Interesting shot, great close-up, lovely colours and textures. I think that your intention was to have the subject centred, but the eye naturally wants to focus on the eyes first, so I feel that you should have placed the eyes in the centre of the frame. I'm sure NeatImage could have helped you remove a lot of the noise in your background. I could be wrong here, but it looks like you used a large radius in your sharpening. It's better to go for a radius < 0.5 and a sharpening amount of around 100. Score: 7

Sticking It Out
by sher

Comment:
Interesting light and colour, but the comosition seems poorly weighted. I think rule of thirds could have been your ally here. I feel there's too much negative space at the top, and the subject is too horizontally centred. Interesting choice of subject though, great textures. 6

Fall's Fruit
by slgardner

Comment:
Beautiful colours, lovely texures and lighting, spoilt a little for me by the chaotic composition. It's not clear what the viewer is to focus on, and there are too many elements leading the eye about. 6

Tempestuous Torti
by Simplicity

Comment:
The crop is just a little too close for my taste here, and it looks oversharpened. There are some burnt out highlights in the eyes, and I don't like the shadow cast behind the cat.
Other than that, I think this is fabulous! Great character and expression captured in this shot, I'm not sure I'd have wanted to be this near a cat baring it's fangs. 7

tinto sombrio
by claudiadf

Comment:
Not really sure what this picture is trying to achieve. Would being able to understand the title help? This may have worked better for me without the glare on the glass. 6