Fascinated
by Jackson

Comment:
I'm not sure all this environment is working for you in this shot; it adds little by way of backstory but has many distracting elements. I wish the pole in background weren't so "behind" the subject, too. A tighter shot might have had more power. Excellent face and hands.

Sloppy Kisses
by KDO

Comment:
Damn, that's...gross? Funny, too. Try burning in the foreground and the bright cushion lower left to contain it a bit?

Treasure Hunting
by HRoxas

Comment:
Nice shot. Masybe a bit too much background? Try cropping it down from the top to square? All that receding detail is working against the subject.

Nap before the Show
by jaredldr

Comment:
This is very sweet. Perhaps the tonal range could be a tad richer on the subjects themselves. The placement of the profile against the white windbreaker is very nice.

Ticking away, the moments that make up a dull day
by Falc

Comment:
clean & sweet, somewhat awkwardly composed to my eye. Lovely profile on the subject. For me it works better as a square crop, top line brought down to exclude the background face.

Good Old Thing
by Long

Comment:
A fairly decent piece of "brutalism", object as object, harsh and simple ansd straightforward. a little too contrasty, perhaps...

Trolling for DPC Votes
by orussell

Comment:
The lighting on this is too obscure for me to accept. It works wellon the reel, but the rod is getting lost. Also, the yellow pinstripe on this one is way too agressive IMO.

Bla-Bla-Bla..
by docpjv

Comment:
wonderful sense of dislocation in the midst of chaos. Pity the man in the parka, top dead center, isn't showing motion blur liek those aroudn him. Image is marred by excessive use of USM on foreground figure: see haloing, especially on hat.

Pretty Earrings
by graphicfunk

Comment:
I'd like this a LOT more if the focus were on the older woman's face, not on her hand, and certainly not on the leather jacket, which is where it is sharpest here...

Evening Stroll
by Zoomdak

Comment:
a lot of spontaneity here. Pity the composition, the two dominat central elements, are conspiring to keep the dog from being a major player in the scene.if you were standing inthe exact same spot, pointing the cam the exact same way, and she had moved a few feet more to the left,a nd the dog were still doing his thing exactly like that, it might be a lot stronger.

But then again, this is all about "candid", and you got no controlover these variables really. What it boils down to is, the best candids are a combination of vision and luck.