Stealth Transport
by Shoval

Comment by Frankie_Lv:
Shoval,

Composition...The composition of this photo is really lacking, remember the rules of third's. Very few photos work with a subject being centered. The position of the butter fly leaves you to much room on either side making it a very busy photo (top & bottom) this leaves you in a very bad positon if you need to crop & here you need to crop big time. The back ground of this photo is very busy making the eye roam. The color scheme of all nutral coloring hides the butterfly making it very hard to focus on your subject. Also the butterflys wings being open would have helped alot.

Exposeure....This photo is over exposed by at least 1 or more stops. This caused you to get a mix of all nutral colors IE 18% gray through your entire photo. Adjusting yor exposure by 1 to 1 1/2 stops would have given you separation in your color (true color). This also would have reduced some of the glare you have on some of the rocks. This in turn would have given you details in the rock which you lost because of the glare. The butterflys wings being open would have made them a bit more transparent adding greatly to its color.

DOF...Better use of DOF would have helped you out here allowing you to take out much of the busy element of this photo and allow the viewer to better focus on you main subject.

Cropping....Cropping this photo at both ends would have helped you with your composition. It would have enabled you to move the butterfly off center. It also would have allowed you to remove a lot of the busyness from the background (top & bottom).

Challange.... I see where you where going with this and if the butterflys wings where open emphasizing on the wings it would have worked, but the way the photo is now it doesn't work.

Smell The Purple
by Shoval

Comment by moodville:
The kid's face is a little soft (chocolate as a bribe perhaps?), and I personally would have cropped out the ear completely, but other than that the placement is good. Similiarly the leaves/flowers are a little dark and the buds seem to be closing so I assume it was fairly late at night. There is either a tree or a plant limb of some kind very near his forehead and it almost looks part of his features. The bottom right has a blank area of black that stops the flow/pattern of the leaves. It's a good shot, but I think a different time of day would have helped it greatly.

Smell The Purple
by Shoval

Comment by ChipsDitchman:
I like the smelling expression on the kid, really actively showing him taking in the scent fits the theme well. A little more post-processing in a photo software program might have helped though...its a little dark.