Hold Me, Tonight I Die
by Skip

Comment by Gordon:
Another great shot, good technique, nice light.

Only thing I'd do would be to crop off the right most 10% to lose the dark corners that drag my eye out of the shot and away from the point of the image, over on the left hand side.

Anyone Seen Laurie?
by Skip

Comment by Gordon:
Awesome - love it - great angle, good seeing, really high potential.

Go To Your Room, NOW, Young Man!!!
by Skip

Comment by Gordon:
Imaginative use of light - good idea and well executed. I'd maybe like to see it shot from the 'other side' looking more in to his face, with the shadow hanging over him, but a good interpretiation of the theme.

Working Band: Live, Raw, Uncut
by Skip

Comment by Gordon:
Another fine shot that could be tightened up with a crop. I'd go almost square with this one, just above the start of the stage at the bottom, and down maybe to the green spotlight from the top. Suddenly I find myself more involved, closer to the stage, engaged. The colours are great - very colourful and well captured in such low light. The guitarist in the foreground appears a bit smooth skinned (neat image again ?)

One More Mile
by Skip

Comment by Gordon:
It certainly meets the challenge and the composition actually leads your eye to the person quite well - the bright/ burnt out high contrast sky and trees is the immediate focus, and then your eye takes the journey down the trees and along the ground, to the person.

Other than that it isn't doing a whole lot for me, but it does meet the challenge well.

Game Faces
by Skip

Comment by Gordon:
The boy in the mirror is a great, subtle touch in this that makes it work. I'd be very very tempted to crop this just past the nose of the person on the left (so she isn't in the photo at all) and just above the can and score pad/pencil. It is then framed by the curtains, has the focus much tighter on the person making the face, the boy is looking at her, and there is a real strong triangular composition between the remaining three heads that leads you around the scene, back up the curtain, in to the mirror, back to the woman, down her arm and so on...

You also get a bit of the board and question in the shot to give context.

Technically I really abhore neat image - skin just doesn't look this featureless. NI can be used subtly, but it takes a bit of work to not have plastic people.

The Unseen Hand
by Skip

Comment by Gordon:
Took me a bit of time to work out what was going on here. Everything seems crammed in to the frame, with 4 or 5 distinct compositional elements battling for attention and control. Not too sure that it is as strong as a result of that clutter.

It is certainly an interesting object and the bright red colours with the blue background also have potential - but then you've got the apples and the stalks and peel and the metal all clustering in.

White balance appears a bit warm, though you mention you were experimenting with them.

Kahuna
by Skip

Comment by Gordon:
You've certainly got an eye for the dramatic abstract.

The blue and red work well against each other, with the dyanmic angles and the back and forth between the colours.

Might like it more if the left most bolt/ raised part wasn't cutting slightly in to the blue - it needs to be a bit more decisive, either cutting in totally, or not at all (reminicent of portrait photography, where you don't want the nose half cutting the cheek line)

Might have backed off a bit on the red saturation, but it can be addictive.

Erasure
by Skip

Comment by debitipton:
You did good! Excellent colors in this, kind of has that falling while your dreaming feeling to it.
Debi

camino a la luz
by Skip

Comment by Gordon:
I like this one a lot. Gritty, dramatic, graphic and un-cluttered. The yellow diagonals are obviously very
powerful but the texture running in the opposite direction is also interesting and grounds the image (literally)

Shooting early has given you great modeling from the low angled light which works well.

Again the sharpening seems quite crisp, with very sharply defined edges - works for this shot so it may be intentional.

There's an opportunity for some sort of 'reward/focal point' in the upper left - some bright colour contrast - blue, or red maybe, or some sort of textural contrast - a squashed armadillo perhaps (!) You've got a great stage here, it maybe needs one more 'actor' to make it sing.