Blown out highlights is a problem I have had on many occasions. Are there any tips you could suggest to help fix, or lessen it?

@Brennan: That really depends on what type of camera you shoot with. If you shoot with a dslr that supports raw files, then shoot raw and you have a lot of control over the conversion, you can even make multiple conversions and blend them in post. If not, then see if your camera has a "backlighting" mode, sometimes that will help.

Consult some pages about HDRI photography - that's what you're looking for!
Good composition though. I think you should have moved the chair more to the left so you hadn't cut it off.

Also a cross processed look may have done the trick here. As far as HDR I would say that the window is such a small part of the overall effect that it does not need to be properly exposed unless somthing outside was so great it adds to the image like a local sign or indication like the HOLLYWOOD sign.

This definitely has that abandonment feeling

great find!

I might try to make this a bit more square by taking a bit off the bottom. Great focus.

Yeah cropping it to a square should help it a lot

I agree with the cropping suggestions, I like the lighting of this photo, but I overexposure of the light on the cardboard is a little distracting, overall good job of taking an unusual scene and making it a very interesting photo!

Is the rightward tilt intentional?

I think the tilt distracts.

B&W really works here and the ice is amazing.

Great shot. Love the treatment. The tilt doesnt bother me :)

I think this is more lens distortion rather than tilt. This is BTW easily corrected in PS.

Nice capture. I really like the contrast between the frozen river and the stateless steel buildings.
Concerning the tilt, I would have straighten the picture so that the middle buildings, from each part of the river are straight instead of having the closest one straight. It would help with a smooth perspective.

I've come across the 'tilt' problem before and wouldnt even know how to fix it. But, I think here it doesn't really take away from the photo. I like how the river takes your eye deeper into the photo.

Brennan, this explains it pretty well:
www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/neutral-density-...

You can also take two exposures, one for the sky and one for the foreground and then blend them to achieve the same effect.

Yes, I'd like to see inside the building! Looks interesting!

Yes, looks like a very interesting subject, but the overblown sky puts a damper on the picture.

I like the way that you have framed this shot, and you have seen a great opportunity here (most of the battle for creating great images it would seem). The lighting does seem difficult here and the suggestions to "save your sky" would have been worth employing (but that's part of the fun of learning ;-0). Well done.

now this is a real Street photography shot. great photo brennan.

this is a really wonderful shot!
the lighting and composition is absolutely perfect!
and really fits wonderfully into the topic..
great shot!

I like the two subjects here that are separated by the whole of the picture.
To me it almost shows two different worlds!
Good job!

amazing! well formed.

La parte de la izquierda estropea un poco y ocupa demasiado espacio quitándole protagonismo a la rana.
Saludos.

Good blur/sharp and black/gray contrasts, the eyes look bright.

On a critique side: a bit too much blurred stone in the background, hardly can be cropped out as the sharp area of stone will also go away. The tood's eye look a bit too centered.

I agree that the toad's eyes are bit too centered. I think that cropping a bit off of the left and top will be helpful.

great shot!
i love the detail on the eyes!

I would have included less of the stone. Perhaps a different angle might have eliminated some of it while keeping most of the frog?

Great details.

Love the tone and mood of this photo. The play of light and shadow is beautiful.

Nice shot, The light is coming through perfectly to show the empty space.

You've used the light well in this image, giving this space a welcome feel to it.

The lighting is very pretty. Love the empty space. Nice photo

this is a great shot!
so many contradicting emtotions packed into this one composition....
wonderful

This is very well composited. Nothing to critizise for me.

This works because it makes beautiful something very pedestrian.

jon

Nice angle, I love the minimalis but I have some doubts on the expostion on the windows even if it is a quite difficult condition

I agree with most of above. My complaint is the blown out highlight. I would like to see just a little more detail in the window.

Interesting scene, good composition, fine light and shadows! Compliments!

haha super cute!

Always like "urban decay" type shots. This one is nice, love the different colours in the pealing paint.

If you are to include the object at the left edge of frame, then you should explore it more. The way you have the framing, it's just distracting. There are at least 4 areas of this scene that you could explore more selectively and have better impact than this, which just comes across a bit busy.

I would like to see this much darker - this is a "nice" light on a subject that is not so nice!

Best,
jon

I agree with Beamer, the item on the left is a quite significative distraction.