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by sacredspirit

Comment:
I like the dark tones and the negative space at the bottom. I am less sure of the crop you chose at the right. Personally, I think the head would have been good here, or at least the neck. More significantly however, the subject has lines from their clothes that are distracting to the tones and texture of the skin. Your model needs to avoid tight fitting underwear the day of the shoot.

Best friends.
by toti

Comment:
Nice tones, pose and clarity with the boys. I like negative space in it's place but I don't really see the use here. I suggest eventually cropping a lot of the top.

The Artist
by scalvert

Comment:
Very creative take on the challenge and well done!

Water Lilies (The Clouds)
by Gordon

Comment:
Wonderfully painterly and impressionistic. Well done. If I would change anything here it would be to try and avoid the strong whites in the foreground flower. But the overall effect is excellent.

Stroboscopic Flowers
by Jacko

Comment:
Good choice of subject and very neat effect. At first it looked like ordinar motion blur, but I see it really does have a strobe effect here, so it must have been done differently.

Leda and Zeus
by magnetic9999

Comment:
Beautiful mix of slight motion blur and colors. It doesn't look like natural motion blur to me, however, as there are inconsistencies with what's blurred and how much, but it's pretty close, and effectively done. Choice of scene and composition are excellent. Very nice work.

Lumiere de bougie
by graphicfunk

Comment:
Clearly one of the best shots in this challenge. Nice work!

As My Love Sleeps...
by taterbug

Comment:
I'm curious what those dust spots can be. Normally SLR dust spots are black. So what are these? Dead pixels? Unfortunately, it's going to be hard to do well in a non-editing challenge with these. But the photo is nice, albeit a bit grainy and soft.

Wild West Winery
by sbeaumont

Comment:
Very nice landscape. I like the way the rode leads into the shot, and with such interesting curves. On the other hand, this is more difficult to appreciate in black and white because of the strong contrasts on the land and the sky make it appear very "busy".

Also, either the landscape is pitched right, or the camera was inadvertently tilted.

Remember the Time
by anatolio25

Comment:
The tones are very good here, but the combination of the strong backlighting and this crop don't work for me personally. IThe chin is ever so slightly cropped, and in general I think the guideline when you do this is to either REALLY cut it or don't cut it at all. This is perhaps also true of the top of her head. So the overall image feels more cramped than a close crop, as some images do so effectively. Also, a little fill on the shadow side of her face would have done a lot of good, including maybe getting some light into her right eye. Hope that helps.