Your Critiques are Appreciated

I also have a post in the "Gallery" Forum but it is very, very quiet over there.

If you have a few moments, I would like you to view this new site. Any comments, suggestions etc. would be great.

http://www.orbit900.co​m/seven-days/

I'm also escpecially interested if you run into any browser problems since I'm using some new scripts and css.

Thanks,
Patrick

In the mood, so I'll give it a go. Next time just post a picture or two to more/better responses. I wish these were numbered or named so I could easily tell you which pictures I am referring to.

Sunday
JM - shot is just horrible. It is of a pot and is underexposed. Yuck.
LB - snapshot of a cat, what can I say?
ML - now this is a pretty good photo. I like the background and the sharpness of the snow in the foreground. I would consider cranking up the contrast a bit in PP.
PM - pretty neat photo, but I'm not real crazy about the crop. Can't say for sure without seeing the rest of the scene.
SG - Good theme and a good picture. The pock marks in the snow kinda bother me though. I would have moved the leaf to a more pleasing patch of snow.

Winner - ML, but none of these are really that great.

Monday
SG - Not really digging this theme. Maybe it would be better with a grungy looking customer across from them.
JM - Neat texture and great focus. I like this picture.
LB - I would back up a little on this shot. The crop is ruining it for me. What a junky yard!
ML - I've deleted pics much much worse than this without even thinking about it.
PM - Pipes with icicles aren't doing it for me either. Maybe I'm picky.

Winner: JM by a mile.

Tuesday
ML - good idea but the cropped off hand is not good. Get that hand in the image! So many of these images are cropped too close.
PM - The wood frame is totally skewed and bothering me.
SG- Cool shot! A warm looking cafe and a couple of well used mugs. Excellent shot!!!!
JM - Is anything in focus in this picture? I don't think so. Don't like this.
LB- Underexposed and boring.

Winner - SG - this is a really really good shot.

Wednesday
PM - nice shot of a toy car, but so what?
SG - back up back up!!! I guess it is just a matter of style, but the cramped up closeness turns me off. Let me decide what I want to look at, don't shove it in my face everytime.
JM - I would have angled off to the left some to get that knob out from in front of the lens. Also, the lettering on the lens is not sharp enough. A lot of motion blur. Kind of a neat photo though.
LB - Went to an interesting place and managed to find the worst angle possible. Why oh why did you take a picture with the flagpole coming directly out of that statues head. F-.
ML - the crop should extend at least to the tip of the longest icicle in the middle.

Winner - PM - and that ain't sayin much on this day.

Thursday
SG - DOF is totally off on this abstract.
JM - Clearly underexposed.
ML - At this point I've had it with snow closeups.
PM - too close, and this photo is begging for blue sky, not one marred with a jetstream.

Winner - none.

Friday
JM - nothings in focus and I might feel a little more overwhelmed if the crop was wider.
LB - Pretty good picture. Looks like you framed the shot perfectly. Just a tad boring. Needs a person or something.
ML - Snow closeup.
PM - a much better composed building abstract. The geometry is somewhat interesting.
SG - I like your flower closeup. Focus looks dead on.

Winner - SG

LB - Great composition. I like the statue, the creepy graves, the contrasty grass. I would crop the excess sky out and preferably include the statue's feet.
ML - Shoulda deleted this.
PM - there's gotta be a better angle here. Looks like it could be a really good shot.
SG - Neat-o colors. You know what really helps this picture? The man working in the background. A lot of these pictures needed something like this. Good shot.
JM - crap

Winner - SG

Winner of total competition is SG. I think these pictures could have been a lot better if more time was spent framing the shot before snapping. Hate to blast pics, but most of these were pretty bad. I'm now sorry I took the time to do this.

Wow, thanks for all of your comments. Way more than I expected. I'm sorry that I can't give you back your time. I guess I should have been more clear on my request since I wasn't getting any feedback from the gallery forum.
I wasn't really looking for any critiques of the images but rather comments about the site and concept. Is the design good/appealing? Were there any browser errors? Was the concept intriguing--7 photos in 7 days but only 1 press of the shutter each day?

I was just kidding about the time. I had 20 minutes to kill anyway.
I like the site. I didnt get any browser errors. I wanted the pictures to be a little bigger, but I run at a high resolution, so it's probably more on my end. Concept was intriguing, would be a nice idea to implement here maybe.

The only thing I didn't like about the site, when I pressed the back button from an image it took me 2 screens back. I didn't like how clicking on an image closed it, I found that to be couterintuitive. I would like clicking on the image to bring up a hi-res picture and only closing it with the X.

Very interesting about the back button. I'm not sure why that would happen. I'll have to look into that. I had the images at a width of 1024, but some felt they were to large so I backed them down to 700. Maybe I'll redo them at 800 or so. Do you think we can safely start sizing graphics larger than 800? Any ideas on a "safe" large size?

You have to aim at your target audience. For instance, if you are talking about visitors to a Crocheting forum....good chance a lot of those screens are going to be at 800X600 or worse. For a POTN type audience, I would feel fairly safe designing for a 1024X768 resolution. Besides, if everyone keeps designing for 800X600 then these lo-res tards will never change. JK Seriously, people that are serious about photography are not going to be running at less than 1024. Makes me wonder what % of POTN users are running less than that?