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I like the expression on the critter's face, but I find the bright highlights on the foreground branches/fencing painfully distracting. The framing is good; the problem is just that it is so blown out. The green blob on the bottom right doesn't help, either.

 

I guess you were successful with your selective focus, but I don't think this picture really benefits from it.

 

Is the sky picture taken with the same angle as the hawk picture? For some reason, the sky picture to me as if you were shooting level, but of course, the hawk is taken from a low position. I think that is what gives the effect that the bird is against a backdrop.

 

Also the sun is plainly supposed to be behind the bird but there is no rimlight or halo around it. I think that might help.

 

Beautiful.

 

I am not sure I understand the woman's pose and the hard light that is on her.

 

But nevertheless very pleasant use of color and light on the man and room.

Very nicely done. I think it would be even better if that dark object on the top right could be removed. Even still, nice composition.

It is an interesting fire escape but I think it really needs to be straight. Try to take the picture square on to the fire escape rather than off to the side. Well, square to whichever side you want to photograph. Otherwise it looks like it leans to the side. If possible, get into the building across the street so you don't have to tilt the camera upwards at it, too, so it doesn't look like it's leaning back so much.

This is very nice. I notice that there is a shadow on the left side of the frame. I wonder what this would look like cropped down and rotated a little so that the white and the dark balance each other on opposite sides of the frame.

 

I would very much like to see this redone in the late fall, winter, early spring, when the trees are bare and the grass is gray. Then the whole background would be monochromatic and desolate behind the bright yellow pumps.

 

I think in addition to a reflector, a softer (larger) light source would be helpful.

 

the building in the background is very distracting, but i like the angle, and also i like the pattern of shadows and light reflections cast by the strings onto the soundboard (if that's what it's called on a harp)

It has nice colors, but I think there could have been a stronger composition. In particular, there is a diagonal line from the cut-off flower on the middle upper left, the big bloom dead center in the middle of the frame, and the bud in the middle bottom right, and then it kind of extends along the shadow of something. But it's not very strong, and the cut-off flower at the end of the line is kind of disconcerting, and then the full bud on the right side disrupts the line. On the upper side of that line is the nice blue sky, but on the bottom is a bunch of stems, partially obscured blooms, and is generally uninteresting.

Thanks for the comment.

 

The person was walking -- because of that the feet and cane are motion blurred and the person is a bit off-balance in the picture.

 

Pictures where the person's other foot was down are very disturbingly off-balance and unnatural due to a pretty severe limp.

As much as I try to ignore it, I am disturbed and distracted by the distortion that causes the roof line to curve away from the side of the frame, and also the gap between the end of the roof and the bottom of the frame.

This is a nighttime available light photo of The Egg, a theater in the Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY (USA)