the little things in life
by mbrutus2009

Comment by levyj413:
The shapes are interesting, but it'd have more zip with more contrast. It's all kind of muddy gray as is.

the little things in life
by mbrutus2009

Comment by Lonni:
I gave you a really low score for this photo, sorry. This is because the image does not contain a good tonal range (all grays, no true blacks or whites), so it is not visually pleasing to me. Also, the image looks out of focus.

Bringing back the old times
by mbrutus2009

Comment by MelonMusketeer:
It's hard to tell about the file size in this shot, but it looks like it may have been shot with the camera set to lower resolution than it would be normally, i/e set at 1meg instead of 6 or 8 meg. In particular, the edges of the court line, and the lettering on the racket look a little pixilated to me.
With this Mac, I can see all the tones in the darker areas, but some computer screens would not show the low key areas, which would affect the voting. I found my monitor set at the std Mac gamma, which is brighter than almost all PC's screens. It made my photos dark looking for everyone else until I set my monitor to 1.8 gamma.
The composition includes lines, curves, and squares which is nice, and depth of field is good. The placement in the composition, centered, just does not seem quite exciting enough to do well in a challenge.
Don't be discouraged, just keep shooting and look at a lot of the images that are doing well, and you will soon have some good scores.
Happy first comment! : )