In Her Jeans
by fotomann_forever

Comment:
A familiar style; I think I can correctly guess who the photographer might be. While the photograph is technically competent enough, I fail to see what exactly its point is. Well, not that I think that every photograph has to have a point. Moreover, not knowing anything about the context in which the work was produced, I know I should not be too concerned about that anyway. Even then, I can't help but remain indifferent to it and see it as nothing more than a studio lighting exercise.

"Morning Has Broken"
by artvet

Comment:
This could have been an extraordinary photograph. Great composition, great sense of depth, balance etc. etc. But now it's ruined by those large, completely blown highlight areas. I really want to love this photo but that one flaw is rather too big to ignore in a landscape work like this.

Get Bent
by skewsme

Comment:
Charming in its simplicity. The shadow on the right should not have been clipped, in my opinion.

Cypher
by e301

Comment:
Not something one sees everyday. A breath of fresh air. I'm somewhat bothered by the completely blown highlight along the edge of the water, but I won't let that keep me from giving this fine work 8.

The earth will provide
by tonyv

Comment:
The underlying idea is good but I think that more could've been done with it. Personally, I'd try to shoot through the wires so as to not only get the fence out of the frame but also get a much lower shooting angle and emphasize the texture, lines and forms on the soil.

Flow
by wildiris

Comment:
Outstanding abstract. I was about to get nitpicky and criticize the two small blown higlights (I must admit I'm a stickler for preserving detail in all the highlight areas) but I find, to my surprise, that I'm not bothered by them at all...10

Abandoned
by LalliSig

Comment:
Photographs of half or fully naked and often filthy guys/gals in dilapidated environments writhing in existential agony seem to be quite fashionable these days. Oh those and the portraits -often low key- in which the model is screaming his/her head off for some bizarre reason. But I digress...The Shakespearean touch and having the skeleton mirror the guy's posture are clever. Both the model and the skeleton seem to be getting lost amidst the pronounced textures of the ground and the wall. The window breaks the visual flow between the two and draws a little too much attention. Yet, I can't help but think that these actually help the picture reach its intended goal. All in all, maybe not awefully interesting, but still a good image.

Stormfront at Sunrise
by hotpasta

Comment:
Each of the three frames is quite good in its own right, and my favorite is the largest one (It'd be even better if the wave were not clipped on the right-hand side; i.e. slightly wider angle of view). However, the triptych as a whole seems to lack coherence, in my opinion, as the photograph with the surfer, although loosely connected, does not quite share the theme of the other two. I don't know, maybe if the one with the surfer were the dominant frame, I might have gotten a different impression.

Lone Cypress
by bryanbrazil

Comment:
Excellent light, good depth of field and exposure. Very pleasing image but frankly I can't help wishing for more. In a perfect, ideal world the tip of the outcrop wouldn't be clipped at the right-hand side of the frame and the top of the cypress would be below the line where the sea and the distant land meets (I've heard of some very determined landscape photographers who carry a ladder wherever they go in case they need a higher point of view. I should try that some time too). At first, I was somewhat bothered by the treetops sticking into the frame from the bottom but now I don't really mind them. In short, the image is getting quite close to perfection but needs just a few more steps to reach it.

Left Behind
by davidus428

Comment:
Nice work. With a little more attention to some details however, this could have been an outstanding shot. Personally, I believe that a photograph like this would greatly benefit from clear forms and textures in the rocks and the sand in the foreground, and to get that, I'd have used graduated neutral density filters to open up the foreground without causing any blow-outs in the sky. Additionally, the bottom of the frame could use some clean-up; what looks like tree bark at the bottom-left corner could have been removed, for example. Getting rid of footprints is not always easy but worth trying.