chase.jpg
by daveit

Comment:
I agree to some extent with everyonehere. The shot of the boy is great. His facial expression invites you into the picture. However the Father seems like he's saying "did you take the picture yet?" so that he can get his son off his back. Very contrasting thoughts. "come in closer, back away". Makes it very disconcerting.

Also, this is not a pure B/W photo - don't know what you were going for, but you need deeper shadows. Try switching the picture to grayscale to remove the color, then do adjustment levels to make the shadows richer. Then convert back to RGB so that you can add in sepia tones if you desire.

For poses, I'd have dad face the camera at least in 3/4 profile, with a smile on his face. It's is son he's holding. Not a reptile. :)

Temple of Light
by AndrewTO

Comment:
having a colored border rarely helps a photo. In this case, since there's already a lot of yellow, I would have used black. I think it would also be better if you tried to remove some of the yellow, as your camera was apperenlty on the wrong exposure setting. Unless the walls really were yellow....

Midnight Footsteps
by Node

Comment:
nice photo - but the title doesn't match. Looks like sunset, not midnight.

Blue Light Special
by dsa157

Comment:
I don't know if I like the positioning of the earing (?). I think the photo is lovely, and would be wonderful as a pure B/W shot, but if you had a similar light source just behind her head to her right (our left) so that it cast a blue halo, I think it could be exquisit - 7

Aren't we ALL human?
by LevT

Comment:
I, for one, not being catholic, wouldn't have known that this was a priest. Plus, the photo is out of focus. Also, as Jen said below, the eye is drawn to the sharp contrast of the white wall, more specifically, the water pipe.

Stephanie

basking in winter's light
by Nusbaum

Comment:
I like it a lot, but I'd bring her left hand more accross her body and lie it palm down, rather then in a fist.

Clearing storm
by Gordon

Comment:
Wow. A tremendous shot! Need a little more from the gray scale, but wonderfully done. 8

Closed
by cpanaioti

Comment:
very disconcerting. Looks like it's upside down.

The Cloud Factory
by e301

Comment:
WOW. My first 10

Perspectives
by Arcanist

Comment:
I think this would have worked better if you walked a few paces to the left so that you don't just get a straight up and down line of the pole with the telephone wires, but them moving towards the horizon line to meet the building.