Lifestyle
by iamkmaniam

Comment:
Was this entered twice because I've already commented on this one

years in the making - or - insufficient care
by marxus

Comment:
Make up your mind about the title, and then use a suitable subject. These shoes are only ever so slightly scuffed, the stitching is all perfectly intact, and there's no holes. This approach with such a close shot and use of narrow DOF could have been pulled off if you were picking out something like a hole in a battered old pair of trainers or something.

"These boots are made for walking"
by Structor

Comment:
The title is off-putting since the boots are unoccupied and unlikely to do any walking. They're also cloaked in darkness with the exception of some obvious hotspots while the patchy grass proceeding them is bathed in light.

Shoe w/ a freckle view
by TheStick

Comment:
The leather curtain takes away from the subject here. Less is more, and just the shoes and freckle of the title would have been stronger on their own. The composition would be vastly improved by moving the shoes further left and rtemoving the superfluous empty space there. It's a classic 'snapshoit type' mistake to place the subject bang in the center. Considering the title I would have liked to see more effort to make the freckle the focus of the shot. Closing the aperture down a 1/2 a stop or so could have made the form of the feet stand out more and seem less flat.

tree climbing?
by lightning

Comment:
Another bizarre shot 'humanisizing' the shoes that only serves to make them look out of place. Shoes can't climb trees, sorry! This just seems bizarre for the sake of being bizarre and the subject just doesn't suit it. Next time just put the shoes on someone and show them actually genuinely climbing the tree, instead of nailing some old shoes to it. The shoes aren't in focus either.

Muddy too shoes
by Netwalker100

Comment:
A beautiful textural shot, well lit giving a good contrast which accentuates the form nicely and really picking out the footprints. The compositon could be stronger (slightly) by coming in tighter to the further footprints and giving a tiny bit more space between the closer pair and the viewer, although I feel I'm nitpicking with that point. My biggest problem is that your idea although very well executed, could be just a little too far "outside the box". There's a fine line between that and missing the point; ie: not fulfilling the brief. 5

Father and Son
by adeldegan

Comment:
Cute theme, but since the anthropromophisizing of the shoes is the way you have gone, it seems odd that the composition is set up to make it look like they're taking a leak against a wall.

The Leaning Tower of...Footwear?
by racb

Comment:
There's shoes in it, but they're out of focus, they're badly composed especially annoying is the wall in the background. And why the lawn as a background?

What a View
by mahobbes

Comment:
At least there's a foot in this shoe, unlike some of the other examples on this theme with shoes hiking up mountains by themselves. The focus on the shoe could be a bit sharper.

Vodka and Shoelaces
by th3ph17

Comment:
The idea is superb, and has lots of potential. I love the double vision effect created. But... the fact that nothing in the image makes sense without the title brings it down in my estimation. The tight close up loses any potential for setting a scene as it were. Could have really played on the drunk theme more by taking the shot in a bar with neon beer lights in the background, pulling the viewpoint back from the shoe a bit so it's still the dominant subject even though it's out of focus. And maybe rotate the image 90º to play on the fact that the viewer is drunk, and resolve the odd positioning created by such a low down viewpoint.