My 'headonism' is killing me!
by om10

Comment:
You may have tried shinign a desk lamp from the other side of your body where your face is pointing. This would ahve offered a nice kicker/rim light outlining your body. Alsthough the booze is the subject of the image, I wish you werent drowned out in the shadows. Your hair blends in with the dark background and you kind of get lost. Not a bad shot though! Keep that creativity and out-of-the-box thinking coming for next challenge too. :)

Shame.
by docpjv

Comment:
GRR. I love this image but I'm not digging your title. Shame and Pain are very different. I feel the pain in the picture, but when I read your title, your image looses its meaning a bit. I also think I would have like this a little more without the cliche hand giving money in the shot. The begger alone with his money pot is sad, painful, and powerful. The hand reaching in sort of takes away from his pain because he's getting helped out! Nice image though. I like the noise and mild colors.

When love hurts
by Jyoti

Comment:
Image size is too small. Use the 640 max edge size specs next time.

Fallen hero
by katsmeow

Comment:
I find the vegitation in the bavkground a bit distrcting. If you stood on something and shot down a bit more so the top edge of the fram was the grass line, it would have been stronger. I also think this would have been a whole point higher if it were B&W.

Hammered
by ayshih

Comment:
Love the motion blur! Without it this image would be much worse. Nice job.

pain
by mocabela

Comment:
Finally a close up face shot with running makeup that I like in this challenge. I thought of doing this too, but I knew it would be too popular so I thought of something else. Nice shot.

sad moment
by hossam

Comment:
One way I judge images is this....

If someone who didn't know the theme of the challenge looked at your image, could they figure out the "message" you were trying to get accross? The answer to that quistion with this image is simply, no! Nobody would know that you are trying to represent Pain with this image. Beautiful shot, but probably will score low this challenge.

Deliverance
by trademarxz

Comment:
Religious, hope, Happiness, Faith, Dedication, Remorse. This image gives me more of these things than "pain". Perhaps with a painful expression on the face of the person holding it would have been more powerful.

Painfull life
by DogAngel

Comment:
I think with a different expression on her face this would have felt a little more painful. Aside from the running makeup and teardrop on her face, I'm not feelign the pain. I'm not saying that it wouldnt be possible to do....I would ahve taken about 100 shots of her and had her think of sad things. Maybe even tell a sad story and then snap away as she talks. I may be more emotional if she wasn't so square with the camera. The lighting is nice. She just looks a little posed, as if it was like "Okay let me fix this makeup, ok now hold that pose....rdy???" The expression will be the cause of at least a whole point for you in this challenge I bet.

Quality Time
by jmritz

Comment:
Hilarious shot! It doens't scream pain at me...but it is pretty funny. My emotional reaction when I first glance at this is funny, then a little sad for the dog for having to wear one of those! Pain doesn't necessarily strike me from this image. Fun shot though regardless.