Hot air balloon through my fingers
by RUEDISCHMUTZ

Comment:
Interesting attempt but it doesn't really grab me; possibly because the hands are out of focus and the extended pinky fingers interrupt the triangle shape the hands were creating. You could have had a triangle within a triangle if you had just kept your fingers together.

Everything in nature has the right proportion.
by Mona

Comment:
This would have been far more effective if you had removed the distracting stems---the one directly behind the flower and the one pointing to it from the left edge of the frame. Also, it looks like you focused on the foliage rather than the flower.

es car go to
by pino

Comment:
I have no idea what the intention was here. This is a snail on a thorny stalk of some kind? Shooting from above was a bad choice. The snail, obviously meant to be the subject, is overwhelmed by being placed in the midst of all those thorns and, worse, the blurry, uninteresting background that takes up 3/4 of the picture plane. Mentally divide this picture into quadrants and you will see what I mean.

All Ears
by WildflowerJoy

Comment:
This is a cute dog shot but this pose really doesn't convey 'all ears' to me. The muzzle is also quite large, as are his droopy eyes. I guess what I'm trying to say is his ears don't look out of proportion with his face. If this were a Basset puppy which hasn't grown into its ears the statement would be more powerful.

First and last steps
by Bidule

Comment:
The title is uneccessary and leaves the impression that the owner of the adult sized boots is dead.
It's a reasonably pleasing still life but it doesn't move me. I usually like contrast but there is a bit too much here and too much loss of detail.

Pest Control
by soccerdad

Comment:
A funny idea. Not an overly successfull image. The bug isn't in focus enough to make an impact. Most of the gun barrel is also out of focus.

Does Size Matter?
by kevrobertson

Comment:
I'm not sure why you chose to include the other tiny furniture in the background. It only takes one to illustrate the point and the others just distract, particularly chair that looks like it is in the act of tipping over. The hand reaching for the chair should be in much sharper focus. Difficult with a close-up, I know.

Empty in the Everglades
by bigjvoltage

Comment:
I kind of like this as a candid portrait but I don't see how it meets the challenge. I like the extreme of placing the subject to the very edge of the frame with the expanse of water and sky filling the rest. I guess in a way the composition demonstrates proportion. I think your title has thrown me off. Fill-flash would reveal more detail in the subject's face, although you might have lost that intriguing blur of his hand at the edge. Overall, I think it's an effective image.

Spring Beauty
by scrum8

Comment:
There is too much negative space directly to the right of the ant. If you had eliminated the background and used the flower as the background for the ant, framing the ant in the lower right, while also focusing on the ant, you might have captured something. As it is, the ant is out of focus and distracting. In other words, you have conflciting focal points. You have to choose either the ant or the flower.

Concrete Proportions
by Donatien

Comment:
This is kind of a ho-hum cityscape. Those concrete tanks and the brick building in front of them don't hold enough visual interest to be a focal point. The trees in the foreground are just distracting and out of focus. I see potential for an interesting shot in the buildings and the river in the upper right quadrant.