To spike a drink
by kosmikkreeper

Comment:
Haunting stuff. I really like the DOF field the way it is, hope you don't get knocked for it too hard.

John Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath
by crabappl3

Comment:
Marvellous. Has the desolation, the relentlessness, and even the period feel of the book. Sepia is excellently done, and I like the almost graphic composition too - verges on the edge of being just shapes.

To the Lighthouse
by dan_pendleton

Comment:
Beautiful composition - slight blowing out of highlights (well, more than slight really) on the white paint is a touch annoying, but only a touch.

Potty Book for Boys. 2 by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
by kinks

Comment:
I think this is working in two contradictory ways: the hue shift is intriguing, making it look almost like a pop art piece - but then the dirtiness of the seat works against the stylised look of that genre. I think you fall between two stools here ...

Romeo & Juliet
by jackditch

Comment:
Arguably not a book, but I'm not splitting hairs. I think the perspective distortion really hurts this image. Also perhaps you haven't got far enough away, or you've cropped too close - including what I presume are more pillars either sie of these archways would emphasise the repetition more fully. As it is ... well, solid photography, but there's no drama, no mystery - if you could have shot it at night, with light streaming out of just one window ...

"Are you my mother?"
by thefragile

Comment:
Blunt, ugly, in-your-face and excellent photoraphy. In a sense. Might have been more impact from a beautifully set-up studio shot of the same carcass - the contrast of the perfect/cosmetic studio situation with the toughness of the planet would be arresting.

Preserving the Taste. The Secrets to Great Salsa
by vrphotos

Comment:
Bloody hell, someone wrote a whole book about Salsa? A WHOLE book?

Reasonable shot - but overlit, I think: you've taken almost all the shadowsing away, and it's shadowing that gives depth and texture and the third dimension to photography. There is SOME, of course, but it's very slight, very (too) subtle. Still, at least you didn;t take it with a full frontal flash. Slightly over-exposed on the garlic and the cloth too - you could have taken at least half a stop off I think. Pretty enough composition, but I find no excitement in it I'm afraid. 6

The 39 Steps (John Buchan)
by Robro

Comment:
Damn and there actually ARE 39 steps - well done, great care taken. Something not quite satisfying about the image though - perhaps that one set of stairs seems straight, and the other curved, or perhaps the over-lap of the nearer set with the farther tank ... though you're definitely on the right lines, I think. Exposure's good, detail's good - it's just the composition that needs strengthening, critically in an image that relies almost solely on composition for its effect. Stilll giving you a 7, for gettting close though.

King Ink
by Nazgul

Comment:
Not bad at all - just a couple of problems for me. Firstly the feather seems to be too much shadowed by the ink bottle, and there seems to be a lack of detail in the rendition of it: the image looks as though it has already been sharpened, so maybe the focus isn't quite there (unless this is a Nikon 5400 shot, in which case it's just one of those weird ones). The other thing is that the cropping has really crowded the image for me - so close to the edge of the bottle, the feather's shadow, almost creates a fake tension about whether the subject will actually fit in the image. A little space around things isn't necessarily 'dead' space.

Evening Star
by mariomel

Comment:
Incredibly sharp image - either a really still night or a fabulous piece of USM work. Star filter, and that's the moon, yeah? I like the way the extraordinary light in the sky contrasts with the humdrum world below - and the colour in the trees is just enough to add a little visual interest to that humdrum world.