Oregon Coast
by Zoomdak

Comment:
Seems disorganised - I get no sense of the real subject of the shot - the Haystack? The haze? The light? Lacking clarity and I can't see that the noise helps anything - it's too orthodix a scene to be a dirty image.

Botanical Gardens early morning
by Pooba

Comment:
I do like the sense of light through the frosted-looking windows: very well captured. Besides that, I'm not quite sure what your point is with this image.

The Leatherlips Sculpture
by xtabintun

Comment:
Now James - had a feeling that this was going to be your subject. It's beautifully done, as far as it goes: perfect light for the image, great capture of the fill-in cold daylight on the reverse side of the face. Good detail, good exposure, all that technical stuff ... but I don't see what there is more than a simple documentary image of the sculpture. It's an extraordinary thing in itself - but your photograph is just a record of that thing, not an image that communicates anything more about it to me - unlike your previous shot of it, which had a ost of other implications to my mind and eye. Obviously, I've no idea what your options were - I don't know the place ... but this, to me, is too straightforward. 6

decide where you wanna go
by simba

Comment:
Shows evidence of a lack of care, I feel.

Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak at Sunrise
by smellyfish1002

Comment:
I've tried five different approaches to commenting on this, and I can't find the words. It does nothing for me, but I'm at a bit of a loss to explain why.

WW II Japanese Interment Camp
by bruski

Comment:
My first impression is that this lacks something. Good sky, though you seem to have lost control of the brighness of the white in the clouds somewhat. I think my problem is with the tonality of the ground areas - all those greys merge together, there doesn't seem to be much variety of of shade there, and that prevents the buildings fro standing out, tends to merge this into a single landscape, rather than a study of the buildings and the immensity of their location. Great subject, pther than that a great treatment - I like the fact that you seem to have set yourself a real challenge with this shot, and I think you've come close to achieving it - I wonder if a different light would have helped - a lower sun, later in the day.

Pssst...It's Buried By The First Tree On The Right
by rmtm333

Comment:
refreshing to see something other than statues and buildings, anyway. Great light, good time of day for it. The clouds are good, but could be more striking, and I think the top right area's brightness ditracts the attention from the progression of road and that tree - and compositionally your lines take the eye to it more stongly than the tree. Good work though.

Scottish National Monument - Sunrise
by agwright

Comment:
You know, I'm not certain that a white border is the way to go - has the inevitable consequence of making the image appear darker, and it seem to be to be pretty dark already. black, I think, would have given a greater sense of looming against a lightening sky. Still, whatever, as we must say these days.

Tonality is good, the hint of haloing from sharpening perhaps is an annoynace in such clean lines, and between a silhouette and a dark sky: I would guess the radius setting needs reducing, to something like 0.6 or 0.5, to get rid of that. A guess, though.

Perhaps I should critique the image itself now, hhaving done the technicalities and the border? Well, perhaps my priorities in terms of subject speak more eloquently than my words ... it doesn't do it for me, much, I fear. The size of the thing seems reduced, I'd want a sense of an enormous sky, and an enormous monument against it, and this feels jus too weak, too reduced. Wider angle lens, closer shot - just as much momument and more sky? Don't know, but I feel it cries out for something like that.

General J.E.B. Stuart, Richmond, VA, USA
by LindaLee

Comment:
I'm put in mind of the estate agents mantra - I guess I should say Real Estate Agent, seeing as you are most likely american: location, location, location. For a competent and possibly quite tricky to take image, this tells me remarkably little I'm afraid. It's a cast bronze statue of some soldier, who doubtless had his moment of history (I could look him up, but I'm not going to). Beyond that ... I guess it just doesn't strike any chords for me.

Berkeley Peace Wall
by GeneralE

Comment:
Well, it's neat enough in terms of focus, and the tonality seems accurate. I don't follow your thinking with this composition - the (partial) inclusion of the figure, who seems particularly uninterestingly posed. The arrangement of your major elements in frame - two bands of wall and bushes, and that figure a touch lower and heavily to the right side of frame. The detail of the wall is interesting, but this shot addds very little to that, and indeed I think removes from it with the inclusion of those other elements. What was it that interested you in this scene? Was there a specific thing you wre trying to communicate to us? I don't see it I fear, yet I'm sure there is a shot to be foundd at the location somehow.