BW Abandoned House [AF1]

EXPERIENCE
I see a long empty corridor of an old, decrepit building with empty window openings to the left and graffiti covered walls to the right, even though it is actually a part of a bridge.

ELEMENTS
The scene itself is well-framed. I can see that care was taken to place the large corridor in the center of the photo to fulfill your vision of the shot. The use of black and white is a good color choice. In photos like these, it does set an appropriate mood and gives the viewer a sense of time gone by.

For potential improvement, I'm going to focus on composition. When I look at this photo and your gallery, there are a number of photos (swamp, untitled-path, haunted, cathedral) which show the same pattern of putting a feature directly in the centre of the photo. There is nothing wrong with that structure, but it also just blends in. There isn't anything that grabs the eye and makes the viewer stop to look closer at the picture.

In contrast, you have photos in your gallery that do grab the eye with off-centre subjects. Your gallery photo (untitled-building in dark) uses light that pulls the eye to the left and raises some curiousity about what might be hidden in the shadows. The photo (road to light AE1) has a twist in the road, soaring clouds in the sky and a building tucked to the right that invites the viewer into the picture. These examples from you hint at a story behind the scene, make a photo more interesting and leave a bigger impact on a viewer.

EVALUATION
You take good clean photos. I think your technique is solid. To develop your skills, experiment with a wider variety of patterns and off-center framing. After you take a photo, try cropping it using different lengths and widths for the borders to see how changing where you choose to set the borders, changes the actual picture. Overall though, this is a good photo. You should feel very good about this and the initial images you've loaded into your gallery. Keep it up!

Note: If you would like some details behind my approach to critiques, you can read my two journal posts titled, How I Critique, for more information.