Craters
by dcanossa

Comment:
Nice lighting, but the focus is a little soft for me.

The light painter
by purpleflutterby13

Comment:
Congrats on a top 5 for you. This is a neat idea, though if the light-art covered more of the canvas it might have pushed the score over 6. A bit of glowing on the plate would have been a nice touch too.

Sally
by purpleflutterby13

Comment:
The light in this shot looks flat. The models hair so low over her eyes suggests a secretive, shy, or reclusive person, which might be enhanced by deeper shadows around the model. As with the other shot, a reflective piece of cardboard or paper in the model's lap would brighten up her face.

Her face looks a bit distorted, as if by a wide angle lens. In my very limited experience taking these types of pictures, I've found that 70mm to 90mm tends to make people look best; not too flat but not stretched either. (For fun, take a shot of someone with a very wide angle lens, say 17mm...).

Hope this was helpful.

Nick
by purpleflutterby13

Comment:
The (model's) right cheek is a bit washed out. You might want to try bouncing some of the natural light with a reflector, like a sheet of posterboard, to fill in the light on the other side of his face.

Shopping
by roby21112

Comment:
The subject looks stationary, as if thinking she forgot to get something at the store, and can't decide if she should go back or go home. After all, she *is* already in the train station.. The overhead lights eminating from her head, together with the slight white outline around her hair, look like a thought bubble: "toothpaste! I forgot toothpaste!"

Shall We Dance?
by levyj413

Comment:
I like the detail you captured in the moon; sometimes a partial moon is more impressive than a full moon shot.

IMG_9161.jpg
by strangeghost

Comment:
Good thing I didn't step in anything embarassing!

The Easy Road Leads Nowhere
by yonderman

Comment:
I love this kind of coloring!

Silky smooth as in a tie, or were you thinking something else?
by Muppet

Comment:
Hard shadow against the wall is distracting, making the model look like a cut-out.

Footsteps on the beach
by purpleflutterby13

Comment:
The curve of the sand, traced by the path of the footsteps, enhances the depth captured in this shot. My eyes are led from the forground to the distant beach, guided slightly by the mountains in the background. There's an overall darkness though, maybe alluding to the loss of someone leaving?

The horizon splitting the image in half doesn't detract from the composition here; it wouldn't have the same effect if the horizon was on one of the rule-of-third lines.