Just-A-Swinging
by BeckyT

Comment:
Not bad but lacks contrast and appears over-sharpened.

Pulley
by theson

Comment:
Interesting composition. Nice colors, like the texture on the rusty pulley and the rope. See some sharpening halo's or something around the objects, whatever it is gives it a bit of an artificial look. Overall not bad. Good job.

Grey Dingy
by sailjo

Comment:
Probably would have worked better in black and white, but would have worked better either way if not shot in such intense sunlight. Some nice shapes in the rope, nice textures on that piece of wood. The lighting sort of washes everything out though. Composition is a little on theboring side, might have been nice to skip the grass and just really get in on that rope and/or the rope and board behind it. Nice shot.

The softness of little souls...
by Agaricus

Comment:
Very nice, nailed the effect quite well. Just a tad dark, would like to see more of the deer. Good job.

Novice Attempt
by zymara

Comment:
Don't care for the title, but assuming it is true...

If you tried to make this photo soft focus at all, you need to increase the effect. This is a very nice picture for this challenge because the softer focus would make those flower colors and the snow on the mountain have a nice glow, giving the whole picture a very dreamy look which would work well with your subject matter here. It would please my eye a bit more if the peak of the mountain was pushed over to the right edge of the shot and the slope came down from there. This is not a bad picture though, so look forward to seeing you get even better.

Down
by willagher

Comment:
Very nice shot, I wish it had soft focus because that feather would just glow against the background.

Lazy Afternoon on Big Creek
by lynnmarie

Comment:
Nice shot, need to increase the glow/soft focus. Lots of stuff here would have looked really good with the effect.

Desert Essence
by slickchik

Comment:
I think this would have looked really good with some soft focus glow in the shot.

Water Lillie
by escapetooz

Comment:
Nice setup for sort of a fashion model/catalog shot. Would have liked to see the soft focus a bit more noticeable here.

Romance
by talj

Comment:
I don't care for the thick border, but I do like the sqaure crop here and how you've placed the center of the rose. Nice soft focus effect too, good job.