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Photo Critique #1
(Photo by Nomadic Samuel)
My first impression with this photo was “Wow! This is an awesome shot!” After closer inspection… I agree with my gut reaction, this shot is doing a lot right. Particularly visual movement created by the bridge, pagoda, and mountain in the background. If I had to change one thing, I would have waited until that guy’s arms were down on the bridge. I had a few other thoughts as you can see in the full mark-up below, but overall very well done Samuel!
Photo Critique #2
(Photo by Heather Webb)
Overall this shot is going in the right direction and has one clear area of improvement that will quickly turn it into a winner. I’m talking about brightness. The areas around the sun both in the sky and water are very well exposed (I love love love that we can actually see the outline of the sun by the way) but the further we get away from the sun the dimmer the shot becomes. Especially in the sand at the bottom of the frame where focus is sharpest, the image needs to be brighter. This could be accomplished either with an off-camera flash or some simple HDR blending techniques. Aside from the overall dimness, the shot is quite nice and very peaceful. Thanks for submitting Heather!
Photo Critique #3
(Photo by Heiko Glietsmann)
My first impression was “Oh, this is different. I like the mood.” This picture keeps things simple. Simple colors, simple composition, even simple details. This is hard to make work well, but Heiko did a great job. As you’ll see in the mark-up, I think the lights on the pier building are a bit blown-out in a distracting way. Also the sky could be more dramatic if it’s going to take up so much of the frame. This doesn’t necessarily mean “add contrasty clouds” but maybe increasing the color vibrancy would suffice to create more visual interest. Again, I really dig how simple this shot is and the mood created by the blue color scheme. Great work Heiko.
Yes, there's a terribly typo-riddled sentence... and yes, I'm too lazy to redo the mark-up. It should read, "It could use a bit more vibrancy." 
Great critiques! Awesome to see intelligent discussion and know-how being spread about.
Feel free to consider the following photo for critique if it helps:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/106168498183799972937/posts/A4NAQAuYCbN
Cheers.
Sure thing Tony! Thanks for submitting
Andrew, as always, awesome stuff! I love the critique you did on my photo but equally I enjoyed hearing your suggestions/observations on the other shots as well. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
Hey Andrew,
For me these are some amazing shots, and I was surprised how you could find areas of improving these. Definitely, this speaks of the degree of your caliber as a photographer. I appreciate your effort to review these pictures, this can really help people learn some great stuff from you in the process. Cheers!!!
Wow! I’m no photographer but I may say you are a very good critic. Great reviews!
Thanks for some of the tips and advice when it comes to editing photos.. I hope this can help me in terms of creating my own photos..
Nice job on these yet again. Not sure how they would go about removing those trees from the first shot though aside from cloning. Might get messy!
You’re right, cloning in Photoshop can get a bit tricky depending on the situation. I usually find it most difficult with smooth textures and minimal shapes since mistake are easily spotted. In this situation there’s enough surrounding foliage & sky to source that 10min of cloning and healing should work fine.
A second opinion is always interesting, knock yourself out:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/110782237476873083485/albums/5679785986796553937
Word. I’m on it.
Thank for the submission Rich
Nice reviews Andrew. Agree with your assessment, especially the contrast in the mountain in the first one and the crop in the last one.
Glad to hear I’m not too far off. You should think about submitting a few of your photos sometime ^_^