Too late for lunch in the Park
by samchad

Comment:
Whilst smaller sizes in vertical images perhaps help for those on low resolutions, this realy comes across as very very small on a high-res screen. I suspect there's a kertesz-like interplay of shapes here - he had some fine images of Washington Square in the snow, and of the Tuileries playing on similar themes.

Oh no... There goes my train! :-(((
by nessnaj

Comment:
The first thought is that its impossible to know whether the train is coming or going. The second is that if this isn't a set-up, which I suspect it isn't somehow, then I think you perhaps need to go into b/w territory: it at least gives an edge of reportage that makes the ordinary more interesting - and this is fairly ordinary, really; and perhaps use processing to pull out the sense of those out-stretched arms, whicha are the real point of this scene - they're what communicates your message here. Keeping the far side of the tracks properly exposed is useless if it means relegating her pose into the shadows. If it was set-up, then you needed to capture some motion in the train, at the very least, as well as putting more into the compositional elements.

I meant to re-glue those rungs...
by riolobo

Comment:
Poor light - very flat, very uninteresting. there's a certain weirdness of shapes and angles here that might have been brought out so much more effectively with a more directional sot light.

Tomorrow Is Another Day
by jrjr

Comment:
Could use some processing, to start with - would be nice to take the ground completely black if you're working with silhouettes, really - rather than this almost black here. Good to get down for the low POV, always effective. Sharpening needs to be more under control - very noticeable halos around the edges of the plough. The sunset is kind of effective - though also the kind of easy thing that annoys sometimes, but your skyline is a bit random and busy, and your framing of the plough maybe too tight in this shot - give it some room to breath - especially in this 'too late' challenge, it might benefit from seeming more isolated in its environment.

I'm coming home ...
by fiverivers

Comment:
Like this - strong stuff. Especially like the isloation of the scene within frame, and a certain sense of mystery to it. One could quibble about the specifics of meeting the challenge, but it has that vibe to it so it's fine by me - wouldn't be surprise dif you get knocked slightly for it though: though not as much as for the unusualness of it :-) Good work, the most interesting shot so far.

Untitled
by Tej

Comment:
I couldn't say why, but I think this meets the old challenge there. Composition, however, lets it down for me - the sun betwen the pylons is nice, but the framing of the pylons in your image is clumsy - half-centred, but not cnetred, half-privileged, but not privileged. I think you've falled between giving them more space, and composing tightly to them, and the result feels half-hearted. Groups of subjects are always tricky like that - my feeling is that you either need to treat them as one subject, in which case give them more surrounding and compose for the one subject, or treat them as a pair and try to centre the as a pair, using what symmetry they give you as the strength of the composition.

Not a Doublemint Day
by GrayGhost

Comment:
Very blocky composition, the situation itself is likewise blatant - beyond the meter and the penalty and the chewing gum (and that needed your title to explain, and still isn't something familiar), what else is there? There's a very poor resolution feel to the image overall - though whether that's processing or camera I can't say, but it doesn't help you. Joke shots are of course a matter of taste, but also i think to be genuinely effective there has to be more to the image than simply the joke - you want people to come back to the image, then the joke either has to be exceptionally profound or there has to more depth to the photograph. Mind you, enough joke set-ups have won recently that I can forgive the attempt ...

I Should Have Kept in Touch Before It Was ......
by Jackson

Comment:
Perhaps a slightly obvious way of meeting the challenge - but it makes it over those whose aproach seems entirely arbitrary. There's some very strong elements to this photography, but it's just a touch let dow n in a couple of areas for me. The central interest of the image seems squeezed to me - some of which will be to do with the point of view - the standing viewpoint always feels quite ordinary, unless your subject is enormously momentous in its own right. A lower POV, framing those gravelstones against the sky and the distant hills would have added enormous impact to the stones and their cage. Alternatively, a wider-angle shot, with the stones more to the foreground, so that you could emphasise the separation between the two worlds, would perhaps have been effective. You could also have sued more contrast here I think - the colours are very washed out, and yet you haven't chosen a black-and-white approach - deeper shadows would make this the more mournful and impressive too.

It has real potential, though, this: just needs some work to bring it out I think - one can see the detail in thsoe hills.

#4 Too late or too short?
by brens29

Comment:
The moment is quite interesting - the stillness of the number 13 against her opponents works well. There are a number of things one would like to see to improve n the dynamic and power of the moment though: getting the instant of shutter release right is one thing, but there are others. The angle of shooting is strange - if you could get lower you'd get more impact, and certainly more emphasis of the relative height of the girls and the effort involved in the jumps. The line of the crash mats would be less intrusive also, and you'd perhaps have the added dramam of shooting into the lights, with the great geometric effects to be gained there. Some contrast work in post-processing would also be nice - either to make those colours pop a touch more, or to remove them, and use black and white to get into the physicality of the sport.

Umbrella Lamented
by aboutimage

Comment:
Strong shot - though I lament the lack of a touch more environment - a sense of what the hell's going on would, I think, help; where you have simply a portrait - a well done, well toned, great contrast portrait however. I can see the rain, and a sense of steaminess/fogginess behind, but only s sense. Black and white works well, especially in the cpature of that reflected light around his face, but the half-silhouette, and his weak position in frame detract somewhat from great-shot potential. It looks like full frame, so even some juducious cropping might have helped a touch - if it's going to b e a portrait, really force the attention to the subject, huh? Pretty good work, though, for all those points.