Damsel's Extravagant Fan
by Trumpeteer4

Comment:
Absolutely gorgeous Damsel and an extravagant fan indeed. Perfect match with the challenge. I love it.

a couple of nearly trivial observations, but as observations is what this site is all about... The model sees to have a bit a green cast above her eyes and along the right side of her neck. I might have brought her up and to the left in the frame, but maybe not...

All in all, I love the shot.

Quiet River Sunrise
by bassbone

Comment:
very pretty shot. I like the texture the moving water adds to the foreground. Sure is a lot of color there. Perhaps the saturation is turned up a little too high.

Great title. Fits the image and the challenge perfectly.

Golden Hybrid Iris
by digifotojo

Comment:
This is a great shot in my opinion and certainly meets the letter and spirit of the challenge. Great color saturation and focus control. Very nice!

Ducks Enjoy Flying
by lear202bt

Comment:
Great shot. You caught have the duck and its splash beautifully placed and rendered. It is too bad you lost the left wing's feather tips.

Beautiful, Confident, Deadly
by jprezant

Comment:
Beautiful? Yes! Confident? probably... Deadly, who knows.

Great shot. Nicely lit. The work area is a bit dirty, but overall it is very good.

At Church
by bcoble

Comment:
A very beautiful and sad picture.

I love the models' placements, both the models' eyes being thirds intersections. I expect it is typical, but unfortunate, that the "mother" is paying more attention to something up and forward than she is to child.

I seems to me the shot has a blue cast and Photoshop also suggests one, although I have recently noted more blue color casts than I would have expected from this site. I will have to check my monitor again.

All in all, a very nice shot.

Erin
by wavelength

Comment:
I was just browsing the portraits and came across your photo. It is a beautiful shot of a lovely lady. Wonderful focus control. If I were to make a suggestion for possible improvement is that there seems to have a blue color cast, although that may just be a matter of monitor color balance matching.

I don't think a tighter crop to hide her would improve this photo at all; her face is so lovely it draws the focus from everything else. A tighter crop would simply product an alternate lovely shot.

spy versus spy
by claudia26

Comment:
What a great idea using the old 5x7 (8 x 10?) as a prop. Beautiful lady, great set up, wonderful lighting. My only observations are that a portion of the camera bellows got lost in the background and the tripod legs reflections overwhelm the texture.

Had I been there at the time, I would have given this shot a 9 or 10.

divine freedom
by saintaugust

Comment:
Somehow I missed this photo when it was new, perhaps it was posted before I joined. I wanted to add my highest compliments for this shot. Perhaps rain clouds do come with silver linings. It is too late to vote, but accept my belated 10.

Self Portrait
by RamblinR

Comment:
Great shot. Beautiful lighting and resulting skin tone in the B&W. I love the perplexed sort of look on your face.