When's He Coming Back?
by lizzyc3

Comment:
Might want to use NeatImage a little less extremely. The over softening of this portrait makes the composition too flat.

Ho Hum
by BobsterLobster

Comment:
Wow. This is outstanding. Not sure how you did it, but I love the sense of time and space here. 10.

scrap
by jus6681

Comment:
This is one of the better shots I've ever seen on this site, IMO. It would make for a wonderful beginning to a series of 5-7 shots, all centered using similar subjects and the same post-processing. I would have given this a 10 if I was a member. Congrats.

Nature and Technology
by bledford

Comment:
Thanks to all for the comments. This did better than I expected. I will heed the suggestions as deftly as I am able for the challenges to come.

Oh, and Nelzie, it's actually a not-so-old D-Link NIC. Nice guess tho'.

Message edited by author 2004-05-19 13:12:20.

Squares
by Gabriel

Comment:
The lighting on this is superb. I love the simplicity of the composition. It borders on abstraction just enough to keep me interested, but not so interested that I'm searching for a "subject". The dark squares in the upper right seem to cascade into lightness in the lower right, which draws my around the frame nicely. Great work.

Oil
by TrueGeek

Comment:
This is a very contrast-free image, which can sometimes be nice effect, but does not work here. I can hardly tell what I'm looking at because the colors of the pump blend in with the background. Also, there is no reason for so much of the composition to be in focus. If you'd have walked 10 feet closer to the pump and composed the rusty iron plates in the foreground with the sky or trees in the background, you might have had something. Next time, avoid shooting into the sun to minimze the lens flare, which is why your image is so washed out (or cover your lens with a lens hood or your hand).

Soon to be unchained
by indianzfan

Comment:
Lighting is too flat. You would have done well to soften the light and perhaps give it a yellowy hue. Also, there is significant motion blur on the bottom of the left chain and the entire image is generally badly focused. The composition is not so bad. I might have even wanted to see less of the top and bottom of the image (i.e. cropped so just the breasts are in the frame). The rings on the hands (and to an extent the hands themselves) are a distraction to the point being made, which is not altogether very clear to me.

Rusty Nail
by drgsoell

Comment:
This is nice, but I think a few things could have made it great. First, it would have been nice to see good, clean ice that doesn't look fresh out of the ice tray in your freezer. The composition is weighted too heavily in the center of the frame. If you'd have cropped some of the bottom out, it would have been a stronger image. The lemon peel, though perhaps accurate to the drink recipe, takes away from the comedy of an actual rusty nail being thrown in the glass. It just looks out of place to me. Lastly, I wouldn't have put the glass on a mirror...it confuses the eye and makes the glass seem distorted near the bottom. Still, I give it a 6.

Hotel Del Coronado
by CDS

Comment:
Not seeing a real representation of proportion (or lack thereof) here. The shot could be more interesting if the circular portion of the hotel was filling the entire frame. The inclusion of the other elements on the beach in the photo takes away from the interest of the main subject.

Heart of a Flower
by BobsterLobster

Comment:
DOF could definitely be longer in this shot to get all of the flower in focus. The black of the beetle makes a nice contrast to the yellow pollen. Good work.