Down Beat
by rhipster

Comment:
Great lighting and good composition. 8

Photoworld Magazine: Is digital taking over?
by aui

Comment:
Great idea, excellent use of DOF to actually add to the meaning and good use of white space. 8

Model Graphix: Paying Attention To Details
by zerocusa

Comment:
Excellent composition. Background showing some areas of shadow/ colour - perhaps needs additional lighting on backdrop?
8

Bicycling Magazine
by pedroviegas

Comment:
Bikes are great - background behind them not so great.
Firstly I\\\'d say that waiting till the shot was free of people would help - especially people with their back to camera and leaving the scene.
Would shallower DOF disguise that? Focus on foreground and more blurred in background?
I think you could also do with losing (cropping) some of the top of the shot out.

The Ecologist
by UberFish

Comment:
I like the simplicity of this. I can't decide whether I'd like it even more if it were even more simple - just grass, sky and clouds and nothing more. I know I'd rather it didn't have the pole and wires but can't decide about the dark trees. More interesting a photo than first glance might suggest.

"Country Marketplace"
by Renee

Comment:
Great colours and pattern. I would like to see a shallower DOF to throw out the background, which adds nothing to the shot for me.

Country Living
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Love that area where dusty light shows through and the way the sun twinkles through the leaves above it.
I think this could be improved by being cropped - taking a little off the left.

conehead digest
by grigrigirl

Comment:
Can't imagine what a magazine of this title might be about but the image is cute and rather enigmatic.

Triathlete Magazine : Danskin Elite start, race won by #38 Sabine Bildstein
by Gordon

Comment:
Excellent capture - nice light, great expressions, good composition, love that their outfits are all different yet they are tied together by their caps, the "danskin" line helps composition as does the backdrop.

Family Circle
by KarenB

Comment:
I love the foreground but not the back. I'd prefer this as a landscape picture cropped from the top to just below where the plate touches the left edge - to make a striking diagonal of black at the top left. That said, I do appreciate that your chosen orientation works better with the magazine in question.
Perhaps more attention on colours/ and surfaces for background objects would make that area as appealing as the front?