Waiting and Watching
by OneSweetSin

Comment by justesme:
That is a brilliant silhoette of the little child. But personally, I would have much preferred a close crop of the boy cutting out the rest of the landscape and the wooden deck, because I think that they are a little distracting, and the reflections immediately tell you it is a sunset/rise without the actual sun.

Also, the deck looks a little wonky with the straight horizon, so it's a little offputting.

=)

"Another Break? Didn't You Just Have One?"
by OneSweetSin

Comment by wewillexplore:
The door is way over exposed and the flag is out of place. I don't really like the bg much at all and it's hard to see his face.

Calico
by OneSweetSin

Comment by heida:
Wow! What a cute face! :)

"W"
by OneSweetSin

Comment by e301:
Hi again Anna - more critique fun.

Immediate impression - it seems soft-focussed, and feels not quite horizontal. The soft-focus thing is really quite bizarre though: looking at the shadow lines, and the top edge, it seems plenty sharp enought there - so i think it must be the tonality of the panels and the glass that give it. As to the horizontal - I'd have to measure it: on closer inspection sometimes it looks OK, and sometimes off.

Obviously meets the challenge - no issues there.

It doesn't have much impact for me: the way the centre part of the building appears to continue into the relection is pretty effective - approaches timmi's shot that placed 3rd - but isn't emphasised by the composition, or the light. The subject is plainly, and not just because of the title, the line of the top of the building; and whilst it's clear that that is right angles, perhaps it would have been more effective if it had been a genuine right angle on screen: I think that might have looked quite striking.

Still, 5.6 is not a bad finish.

Ed

Forgotten Beauty
by OneSweetSin

Comment by WildflowerJoy:
cropping to get rid of the houses on the left might be nice. Light and dark contrasts are good.

Forgotten Beauty
by OneSweetSin

Comment by Pidd:
This is a nice real estate shot, but it does not give the feeling of desolation to me. Except for the few bits of graffiti that are barely noticeable, it seems more like a coveted piece of real estate than an old, delapitated home.

"Another Break? Didn't You Just Have One?"
by OneSweetSin

Comment by kiwiness:
The shadow from the flash on the wall and ceiling there is a little harsh.

Forgotten Beauty
by OneSweetSin

Comment by Ivar:
Decent picture, what bugs me is that the bottom half is not in focus...

Forgotten Beauty
by OneSweetSin

Comment by joanns:
Great old house. I could be sharper.

Forgotten Beauty
by OneSweetSin

Comment by jonpink:
interesting building, good eye. shame it's slightly out of focus