My First Barn
by Neuferland

Comment:
The burnt-out sky is such an obvious problem here - and seems to be a simple case of dynamic range being unable to cope with the scene you wanted to capture - and the only solution? A different time of day, or different weather ... Also, I'm not completely certain about your framing of the image - those buildings to the left, cutting them off - perhaps you could have afforded to include more of the context here, rather than so blatantly concentrating on the barn alone? The cut off of those sheds unbalances the image a bit, for me.

solitude (my first trip to the mountains)
by fstopopen

Comment:
A few things upset what for me would otherwise be a wonderful shot. I think tere's too much going on - tree. stones, sky, and somehow you haven't brought those elements together compositionally. The line of rocks doesn't work with the shape of tree in any harmonious way. The extraneous greenery in the left of frame might confortably have been lost, andd I also think that that dead tree is too closely cropped in shot - I feel that a little more distance would have kept it in the foreground, and used it as a compositional element to draw the middle distance roacks and the far horizon together. In landscape, many of the most useful compositional ideas come from simple geometric patterns - curves, circles, triangles (especially the latter) - shapes that the eye has a natural inclination to follow.

Shapely Sage
by osram

Comment:
Not sure what this is, not that it matters, but those 'extra' lines, the less geometric ones, kind of upset the fluidity of the image for me - it's otherwise so perfectly abstract, and I'm not convinced that they add much. Not that you could just have popped up and removed them of course, but nevertheless ...

Fire extinguisher
by MrAkamai

Comment:
Like this, like the simplicity of it, and the progression of light across the wall's bricks. On thing I would change would be to sorrect the perspective distortion, or to shoot head-on in the first place - that slight coming together of the lines of bricks across the frame produces an odd feeling of unevenness across the image, and it isn't what i sense this shot is about.

On Mother's Day
by David.C

Comment:
In terms of simple technical competence this is wonderful. However, there's an element of meaningfulness that I look for in a shot, and I don't find much here - no great absorbtion in the light, and no great attraction in the image as a whole. Still a 6 though.

Take Cover!
by sjonni

Comment:
Highly competent of it's type I should think - though that type is something I find unappealing - kind of bland, and fake in a way that's purely about a pretty girl in a posed situation ... has a slightly sinister undertone of sexism.

My vacation!
by tolovemoon

Comment:
Lots of things I don't like about this I'm afraid. It ain't easy to be hard about something, but or the sake of the low score I'm going to give you I'm going to explain. The organisation of stuff is poor - there's such a lot going on, but nothing that specifically draws the eye - at one point it's the colour of one area, at another the shape of something, but then the focus and the depth of field take the eye from there and pull it elsewhere. The lighting (which appears to be simply on-board flash) leaves no great sense of texture in anything, and also seems to have washed out what colour there is in this image. Look carefully at the more succesful still life shots here - and try to notice something about the quality of light in them, and the simplicity of composition of subject-matter. There is no sense of organisation of subject here, and nothing to direct the eye, and this it scores a 1 from me.

New Life
by dagaleaa

Comment:
Staggeringly good wildlife photo - almost beggars belief that you've never shot this before :-) That sense of chaos given by the specks of dirt that appear to be flying (on closer inspection the might well just be on a wall), but nevertheless the imapct is special. Great image.

Mother’s Day
by thelsel

Comment:
That really heavy balck order is I guess appropriate in this case - and I like the intention I percieve here - though i always find selective desturation slightly too blunt an effect to have real emotional impact. Love the rest of the editing work - though the suggestion of the sun in that burnt-out light makes the absence of shadows a touch too weird for my taste. Intriguing shot though - great sense of balance, compositionally.

New Cygnets In Training
by Drake

Comment:
Has a impression of being over-sharpened, as though to negate the effects of slightly too slow an exposure, but the freezing of the water in motion suggests otherwise - perhaps too tight a crop on a small image, or something similar? Lacks the immediate sharpness of a real pop image, although its a great moment to capture for all that.