Au revoir
by Spiriev

Comment:
An excellent, haunting, emotional image and one of the best of the challenge. Makes the viewer wonder why she is going away since clearly she seems conflicted about it. The only thing hurting it is the shadow reflection on the left side, the reflection of the car. The metal seatbelt near her fingertip is distracting. Super facial capture. Kudos to you for a great shot.

The decision is made
by Stagolee

Comment:
Good lighting, capture, action, background and high technical quality are all there. This has ribbon potential.

Last Decision?
by Tej

Comment:
Tough subject but excellently captured. Should be a top three finisher. Making this a silhuoette emphasizes the harshness and incomprehensible nature of suicide. Having the noose as the only item in sharp focus is ominously perfect. The only thing I might do different would be to keep the framing as is, but crop out a little more of the black border and leave just one side thick. Great job!

Message edited by author 2005-06-08 05:11:21.

B&W or Color ?
by kbhatia1967

Comment:
One of the best images entered in this challenge with ribbon potential, but I am sure some folks will vote it lower because of your title. "Go back?" probably would score better. High key look works well with this image.

Hiking paradise
by RUEDISCHMUTZ

Comment:
Scenes like this highlight the incredible pastoral beauty that nature has to offer. The composition is inviting and engaging.

My Beauty
by HighwayFlower

Comment:
This image suffers from a common autofocus problem. You can see that the background is in clearer focus than your main subject. Autofocus, when left on its own, will tend to focus on the thing that takes up the most real estate in the frame like the background does here. You want to press your shutter half way down and turn your camera on what you want to focus on first then, when it is in focus, move the camera to compose the image before pushing the shutter the rest of the way down to complete taking the picture.

Btw, nice cat!

Beauty of Heaven
by mandyturner

Comment:
The concept for this image is great. But a good backlight image is hard to pull off. In this case your sky is overexposed and you need more light on your angel's face. A strong sidelight shinning down on your subject's face and arms would give him a more angelic look as well as add much more interest to the composition. Under better lighting you would also need to clone out the angel wing straps. The general clarity of the image is not particularly good and would need to be improved.

True Innocence
by DeniseBernadette

Comment:
This image has a great background and is composed exceptionally well. This image had potential.

The general low technical quality of the image will prevent it from getting a high score. The color balance of the deer seems off. It is too blue. The DOF of the deer itself is shallow which makes the snout out of focus. Overall clarity of the image is poor.

Wish your camera could have captured this image better. It is really a good shot.

The Making of Beauty
by idnic

Comment:
Conceptually this is a very good idea and the white background is great.

The general technical quality of the beauty aides pictured is not particularly good. I'm unsure what to do about that. One thing you consider is to shoot at a shallow DOF and set the beauty aides at different distances from the camera so that some are in sharp focus and others are soft focused. Also, put some powder on the brush and add the applicators to the two open containers to make it look as though they have just been used. This would imply that beauty has just been created and is very nearby without actually showing it. That is powerful. It would make me think the user of those products is both gorgeous and glamorous and someone I'd like to meet!

Finally, A Silver Lining
by ebertdj

Comment:
The shadow streamers just above the horizon are the strongest part of the image. Though it was your specific intention the silver lining is overexposed. If you could have "narrowed" the thickness of the silver lining it would be more effective. The foreground does not have a lot of interest to complement the sky. If you could find buildings or vegetation to frame the sky center to a much larger degree it would add a lot of interest to the composition and justify the large amount of foreground silhouette you already have.