Sports venues

This really gives a sense of enormity and arena, it's great to see the photographer has spent the time to wait for the moment when he stadium was empty, to give maximum impact. The light is soft, the sun being behind cloud, so there are no hard shadows allowing this beautiful tonal quality throughout the image.

I would have liked to see the image properly lined up however – this just goes to show how hard it can be to perform this correctly, but also that slight angle on the roof suggests to me that the camera wasn't quite square to the subject and then wrongly adjusted (probably horizontally) to compensate. The end result is that the lower half of the image is 99% true, but the roof is more askew. I would also have probably got the entire roof line at the top of the image to mirror the lines of the track on the ground, but none-the-less a very proficient shot.

The great effect of this shot comes from the angle on the arena, so the viewer is looking at this great wheel spinning in the centre of the image, lying beneath this great sweeping sky (retouched) to give this immense sense of speed and motion. The two elements lend themselves together in a fantastically poetic sense. There's also a sense of time passing over this historic site and you think of all the spectators watching the sporting events that have taken place here and there's this great "eye" looking back at you! I only wonder what it must have seen...

Wow! This hits the brief on the nose with a very large bat. The architectural element is beautifully weighted in this image to juxtapose the bike, I love the fact it appears to be watching the show.

There's a great balance in this composition in-between the fragility and movement of the motorbike and its rider and the solidity and dominance of the architectural structure.

The light is soft and subtle on the concrete and sky, and yet there are some great highlights on the rider. The composition has given this architectural detail a real presence and I love the fact the cables are suspending the bottom of the frame.

There's a lot of artistic licence applied here. For me, the image crosses into fine art photography as it's almost a kaleidoscope sort of image, but it's stunning and technically, the lighting is amazing. Late afternoon or early dusk just softens out those highlights and gives this serene glow over the image and such subtle colours in the sky – you just want to be there!

A very compelling and well executed shot, cropped excellently to make a wonderfully compelling image.

This shot is obviously not merely an opportune snap! It's been planned, considered and executed showing a lot of skill.

The photographer has used the architectural elements to position the tripod and has waited for the last few minutes of dusk light to balance the ambient and artificial lights. The night sky appearing in the top right of the shot balances nicely with the vignetting of the bottom of the frame, too, just gently keeping your attention centred.

I would just watch the amount of sharpening you apply as this exaggerates the starburst effect a little too much, but the final image is a beauty!

I love the composition of this shot for itss dramatic lines. The camera position has been well considered to maximise the lens effect and even though the lighting is quite harsh, the curving highlights and shadows really draw the viewer into the centre of the image. I think the overall effect could be helped with a little more of a "curve" being applied in the processing and reducing the saturation somewhat, but the perfect blue sky mirrors the track nicely and gives the shot a tonal balance.

I suspect this to be a hand held panorama, as some of the stitching is visible and there is an amount of noise due to the highish ISO rating, which could have been reduced but it would have given a shutter speed of 1/15s with the current aperture. So, it may have helped having a tripod.

However, the camera position has been well considered again, lining up with the centre line and more importantly being on the mid-point of the seating gives this shot an amazing symmetry and balance. I may have been tempted to angle the camera up a little more to see more of the roof and loose some of the foreground seating, but it's obviously a dramatic shot!

For me this shot demonstrates a professional level of photography. From tripod to camera craft, everything has been set up to pinpoint accuracy, which is not easy in a situation like this where there is very little to actually line up to.

But beyond that, capturing this sky has made this shot. The rigidity of the structure is beautifully counterbalanced by the whispy and delicate nature of the clouds dancing above it.

I suspect that this is an infra red filter or colour black and white filter, but it gives the image a rather magical resonance – an amazing shot!

The simplest shots are often the hardest to get right, but the balance of the composition in this shot is superb! The photographer obviously has a favourite toy in this 300mm lens as it's not easy to a new comer to "see" what a lens like this sees. And, to get the light balanced on an illuminated white subject like this, without blowing out anywhere, would've meant having to shoot this either at the right time of day or to choose the aspect of the building carefully.

A really beautiful shot!

For pure drama this shot does it for me, it probably was more of a opportunistic shot, but hey, sometimes these things just present themselves to you and it's up to the photographer to capture it.

The shot was obviously taken directly into the sun and I'm sure the black and white conversion had a colour filter involved to give this really dark sky, but the light foreground and dark seating really add to the imposing nature of the flood lighting structures looming over the athletic track. All very "Hunger Games" – very filmic!

This image is nicely composed and has great reflections which are not always so apparent to the eye, so for me the photographer has shown good awareness. The composition is also well lined up on the wall and has good perspective correction. It just suffered by being shot too late in the day and hand held. The balance in-between the ambient light and artificial lights has gone, relying soley on the ISO (12800) to bring out the sky, which I'm sure would have been virtually black to the naked eye.

I love the juxtaposition of the stadium and Anish Kapoor's "Orbit." Having two focal points that work in an image is tricky to pull off, but this shot shows you how it can work to great effect. Lining up on the canal wall also helps draw the eye into the centre of the image and creates some "conflict" between the two subjects.

I would have tried to shoot this a little earlier or later in the day as the sun is very high and although here are some nice things happening, light wise on the stadium, the Orbit looks very flat and could have been helped with some more highlights, but overall a very pleasing image!

I like the fact the photographer has lined up this shot with the logo off centre and created some "weight" to the right of the image.

The image is pin sharp and well executed and the verticals are true throughout the image , which shows to me the photographer understands how to set up a tripod correctly, which is crucial in architectural photography.

My tips to improve this shot would be all post-production tips; firstly this is much improved by cropping it to a 16:9 ratio, losing foreground and sky. I'd also look to colour correct this shot and reduce the saturation to get the highlights back to white. All in all a great shot though!