Two Stand-Up Citizens
by lmhr

Comment:
Really great colors. I wish you could get the building staright to the frame, but know you can't do so perfectly -- however, it still appears that ther photo has been rotated clockwise a bit. You may not be able to get the side of the building to be vertical, but you can get the building to fall along the horizontal plane. I think it needs to be rotated a little counter-clockwise. Like how the cloud reflections in the building look like they're logical extensions of the clouds behind it. Good shot.

A picture of a drawing of a portrait
by adak69

Comment:
Nice composition and well lit. While the person drawing is important, the drawing itself is truly the subject -- so she's lit and he's in shadow. If I had to choose something, I'd remark on the "emptier" space in the upper right corner -- but I don't think there's anyway you could crop this tighter to deal with that -- maybe you could with the original, but I just don't know.

Mall Shopping
by pnicholls

Comment:
I like the arc the second floor makes, but beyond that nothing really catches my attention. It looks like the entire photo needs to be rotated just a couple of degrees clockwise (the Florsheim sign isn't straight). I like the long exposure time to give the people a blur -- maybe if you'd shot this at a busier time of day with an even slower shutter speed. Given it a sense of a lot of people scurrying about on their own separate quests.

Drowning
by drewmedia

Comment:
I dig this, but I wish all the vertical lines were more perfectly vertical -- everything needs to be rotated a few degrees counter-clockwise. Nice use of color matching along with an interesting "background".

Disinterest
by curtis_means

Comment:
Great picture -- I just wish the focus wasn't so soft. There are a number of other minor elements that don't exactly help the photo, but since it's a grab shot -- I'm guessing while people waited to cross the street -- there's not a lot you can do about them (like a shallower depth of field to throw the far background completely out of focus). Love the black of her clothes vs. the white of their uniforms. Just a fun picture.

Serenity in the City
by PixelatedVisions

Comment:
I like the idea you're going for here, but I think you need to do three things. The first two are related: get a little closer and find a slightly different angle to create a little bit more of a balance between plants and city. Don't know if it's possible or not to have done so. Last, because the flowers are in shadow, forcing your flash to go off (again, if possible) would have brightened them up and helped them match the rest of the shot. Right now, they're kind of dull and lifeless even though they're the main focus of the image.

Toronto Wild Life
by Vitali

Comment:
Totally fun shot. I'd have tried rotating it just slightly counter-clockwise to make sure the building was as perfectly vertical as possible. Your file size is about half what it could be and this has introduced some compression artifcats (especially noticeable around the moose). The sky is a little bit *blah* but there isn't anything you could do about that (I'd suggest shooting this at sunrise or sunset). Finally, there appear to be some kind of wires in the shot but I can't be sure what they are or where they go. It may be that you can't do anything about them -- but I'd clean 'em up in an editing program afterward to make this even better.

The News on the Street
by vonnie1956

Comment:
I like this. Two things I think you might want to look at. First, I think the wall near the left edge needs to be straight up and down. It's the one angle in the shot that bothers me (maybe it's not straight up and down in real life, though.) Second, while I love the shadows made by the posters themselves (particularly near the bottom of the wall), the shadow made by the wall detracts a little bit for me. I wonder about shooting this at a different time of day to minimize the shadow from the roof while still mainaining shadows from the posters. Maybe be impossible to do, but thought I'd throw it out there anyway.

Inside Rural City Limits
by karmat

Comment:
Challenge aspects aside, this is simply too grainy and also very dark. It actually looks like a capture from a video camera. Did you have to crop WAY in to another photo to give the rodent (don't know what kind it is) enough of a presence in the photo? If you crop too far, you lose quality and things start getting pixelated.

Alley McBar
by MikeKrueger

Comment:
I'm missing some aspect of the title... It looks very pixelated and your image size is about half what it could be -- do you have the option with your camera to take bigger or less compressed images? If so, try doing that and then resizing/resampling to get the correct image size in an editing program. As for the image itself, there's too much dead space at the bottom of the image. I don't think that all of that road is helping. Either a tighter crop in post processing, or moving closer to the subject when you were shooting to emphasize the houses and their proximity ot each other would have worked better I think.