david_eppstein

January 17, 2003

Seems like a very standard night-shot cityscape. What message were you trying to convey?

January 17, 2003

I like the cinematic motion-blurred effect here.

January 17, 2003

Seems low on originality compared to the rest of the shots in the same folder.

January 17, 2003

Overall composition, ok, lighting good, fashion bad (but what do I know). I don't like the way the left guy's face leads out of the picture, and his pose looks awkward and staged.

January 16, 2003

It looks like a big black cloud is coming from the back bird's mouth, like a cartoon representation of foul language. Maybe needed a little more attention to foreground/background juxtapositions?

January 15, 2003

Lovely golden light on the bluffs, and nice composition. Somehow it looks like a wider angle than your equipment says it should be.

January 10, 2003

It's hard for me to get a sense of scale from this. I know how big the tree must be, but the plowed field still looks like a small piece of textured fabric.

January 10, 2003

I guess these are feathers? Nice tecture and composition, anyway.

January 8, 2003

Interesting attempt at making a flower macro more interesting than usual by choosing an odd composition. I think it's too unbalanced, though.

January 8, 2003

I like the light on the water, but don't care for lack of detail in the duck nor for the centered composition.

January 8, 2003

I think the grainy feel works on this one. Smoking is generally a turn-off to me but I find this image somewhat attractive anyway, maybe it is the relaxed feel of the model.

January 8, 2003

Too dark. Little detail is visible and the silhouette against the sky does not contain much content.

January 4, 2003

Thanks, your version looks better on my monitor also. I lightened the photo from what the camera thought the exposure should be, but apparently not enough. I couldn't decide whether to keep the yellow in the corner or not -- it is a little distracting, and not really an intentional part of the photo, but it also could help the viewer see that there is a second bird in the same posture behind the first one (the yellow is part of the second bird's eye).

January 4, 2003

The most interesting aspect of this to me is the tilted horizon. Which is not saying much.

January 4, 2003

I like the middle swirls, but I'm not sure about the framing vertical bars -- I think they're too bright and bold, and pull attention away from the center.

January 4, 2003

Good feeling of a sunset beach walk, the lighting looks very similar in Portugal to here in California. I think the glare in the bottom left corner is a compositional flaw, though, it pulls the eye out of the photo and behind the walker.

January 4, 2003

Like Maxyme, I really like the ray of light -- without it I don't think the picture would be as interesting. It is already very symmetrical, though, so I don't understand his comment about cropping. The symmetrical composition adds emphasis to the asymmetric ray, and I think works very well.

January 4, 2003

The gray uncontrasty light goes with the subject, but the composition seems too haphazard to me. I don't see a clear subject to focus my attention on.

January 4, 2003

Very interestingly twisted trees. The composition doesn't come together for me, though.

January 4, 2003

I have too much the feeling that the leaf was deliberately placed on the stone rather than falling there naturally.

January 4, 2003

I like the play of color on the uncolored steel. Composition is ok but nothing special.

January 4, 2003

I don't see what the photo adds to the art that was photographed.

January 4, 2003

Nice snapshot, good color. But the unoriginal composition (centered subject, wide margins, tree trunk behind subject's head) prevents this from being more than a snapshot.