Scout (and Atticus): after the confrontation
by nsbca7

Comment:
Good portrait - has the feel of a stage shot - probably the backlight on the girl's hair. Oddly, there is something about the composition that works, for me at least - I wonder if some of the more rigidly opinionated will dismiss it for infringing the 'rules'. The tonality works too - there does seem to be something old-fashioned about it, which re-inforces the idea of the stage.

Don't Try This At Home
by Travis99

Comment:
Good capture, especially to balance the exposure of flame and figure. A slight pity his expression is so bland, though :-) Good work.

gear and water
by colddog15

Comment:
It's quite intriguing, but the very small image size of our submission is bound to hurt you - especially from those vieing on bigger display resolutions. From the look of the vegetation, the grain of the gear, it seems heavily sharpened - though my guess wouwld be that it's actually your re-sizing process. Difficult to be more judgmental in these circumstances.

Breakin' the Veil
by peete

Comment:
From one mushroom photographer tto another ...

This is great - though I would have tried to stop the slightly overdone highlights, myself.

Snow Mountain
by sfarrell23

Comment:
Processing - whether in camera or in computer - has hurt this quite a bit - I don't think the noisy sky helps such a clean image, and the detail of the mountain seems lost. Compositionally, perhaps more foreground could have given a stronger sense of the mountain towering over everything? Just a thought. A fine scene, though.

Sib Baht
by Mark of SRQ

Comment:
Good. De-saturation really necessary for this I wonder? I'm quite certain it would have had impact anyway, and this feels like you're slapping me round the face with it - not trusting your audience to see for themselves. Still a fine photograph, nevertheless.

Candid Smile
by Tiberius

Comment:
Very fine work indeed. There is really nothing to take issue with. Character, the subtlest of emotions, a great capture.

Fern
by riley

Comment:
Strong detail, sense of texture, lovely light, colours. Well composed too. i'm having a bit of a reaction against the over-processed at the moment, so this speaks to me all the more. Not wholly convinced of the compositional choices, if i were being harsh, which i usually am.

Celebrating Sunset, Jockeys Ridge
by Skip

Comment:
You've taken this quite a long way from the 'real' with that sky. It works, compositionally, just fine; but my immediate feeling is that it might have been the more powerful for a more real sky. There is a clash of sentiments, with that very processed look and yet the candid obvious fun of the children - almost a sense of playing on the eve of disaster, perhaps? Though a lot of that comes from your title, I suppose: without which, it would be possible to see this as a depiction of terrror, those poses could be fear and flight as much as anything.

Camouflage
by MackFlix

Comment:
Nicely done - almost has a studio feel to the light. A little ( and I mean little - doesn't have to be Heida-esque) burning around the top right and bottom left of frame might have helped pull the attention more solidly to the toad/frog - and that stick is kind of a shame - it really imposes itself on the composition. I'm not suggesting you could have done anything about it - nevertheless, it has that impact. Good shot