The Lighthouse
by salmiakki

Comment:
Classic image - lovely grain

Healing Hands
by DrAchoo

Comment:
Tee hee - I tousled with using the same title for my image. Well done!!! Clever lighting tricks to circumvent the Basic Editing rules.

Through the Fog
by DrAchoo

Comment:
Wow - there is so much grain it almost goes beyond being photographic. Perhaps a photo found in a shoe box in some attic, of a lake visited on some holiday in the 1920's...

This has so much story in it - minimal and yet it looks like the opening scene to some raw, Human Drama film (art circuit naturally). Sigh. What I find particularly unusual is the sepia and lightness of the image.

You should do a series of these (unless you have already) - a visual poem that takes us on a journey. I would love to hang about five of them in a line across my living room and just gaze and think and suppose...

And now this is being particularly gushy, but I love the largish white spots in the left foreground - "faults" that add to the authenticity.

Love this.

Green Tea Therapy
by Jaded_Housewife

Comment:
Love this set up - lovely palette of green and red too.

Meditation
by lovethelight

Comment:
Simple, clever, eye catching. Great.

Megan-(IMG-7063)-III-Copyri.jpg
by albc28

Comment:
I am not a portrait expert by any means, but I will give you my immediate responses as a lay person.

1.Looking at your shutter speed it may account for a few "things" - she looks very soft focus/ out of focus, but at that speed, the slightest muscles move will be enough to cause the blur. Experienced this recently in the "Alternative Medicine" challenge - no matter how "still" I stayed, microscopic movements caused blur.

The Depth of Field may be too shallow - the focus seems to be on the centre of the arm where I can see clearly defined hairs, but after that the focus weakens.

2. Lack of definition - needing sharpening

3. The colour seems off - very yellow tones - the skin is even yellow in its highlight areas, and the eyebrows are tending towards orange

4. Compositionally: too much skin for a portrait - well anonymous skin: the arm takes up a large area of the image, while I am wishing that the face filled the frame more

5. Ummm tricky to say but just a bit too spotty ... the body freckles/moles are fine (a bit numerous and some could be cloned out however) but the facial red spots definitely need to be cloned out. If an image like this were submitted for a challenge it would fall prey to subjective ideas of loveliness - while natural beauty is to be applauded, in a challenge, it would be penalised, because only truly wrinkly, weathered skin or plastic studio model skin passes....teenage spots are just awkward to look at.

Message edited by author 2007-03-09 03:34:34.

Aromatherapy
by dsidwell

Comment:
The first image I've really loved. Well composed, good colour and nice processing. Hope you do well!

Control Group
by cmittle

Comment:
Took a while, but I got it eventually...clever. I like the composition too.

Snake Oil
by senor_kasper

Comment:
Well done: simple, but striking idea.

Meditation
by dssagent88

Comment:
Very nice composition: I like the centrality of it all.