A little late, but commenting on the first one. Don't know if it's my monitor, but the lighting and contrast seem a little flat to me. Also, not a lot going on besides a hammer and some texture, as Unstrung pointed out. Maybe a different cropping. Use some continuation (cutting into the object so the viewers mind has something to think about). If you don't mind, played with it a little while I sat here eating my lunch. This is basic Photoshop, since I don't have any of my tools/filters here at work. Tried to crop it and add a little more interest. Also had to save it at pretty high jpeg compression (man, all that detail eats up space in JPEGs). -=>Donald