Hypnotized and Mesmerized
by troylox

Comment:
Love the overall tonality of this shot! The cropping though tight works well here. The thing I find distracting though is that the focus is to shallow. The neck of the bottle is not sharp and I keep finding my eye landing there and asking why...
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Bottoms Up
by Mr_Pants

Comment:
Cute. Simple. But IMHO you have too much negative space that doesn't add to the shot.
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Aloof
by Zoomdak

Comment:
To really make this pop, you would have to be a lot closer to the subject in effect filling more of the frame with it. You also would have to have a picture to cut out with a white balance to match the white balance of the surroundings. It's very apparent to me how you did it if ony from the very red skin tones of the subject.
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Positive Energy
by LouiseB

Comment:
Wow. This shot has one thing going for it that I always look for in a portrait/set up/studio type shot. You got awesome lighting going on. You got a great soft focus effect too! I hope you're not getting bad comments about it being out of focus. Soft focus for some reason doesn't seem to do good here. I keep hoping that shots like this will change that. The only minor complaints that I have are that the base of the light bulb is hard to see which doesn't help the illusion. Nor in this instance does the lighting help the illusion. It would have been the first ten in my voting history if the overall lighting would have appeared to have come from the bulb itself and not from outside frame left...
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grass killer
by mandyturner

Comment:
You just made me spew beer all over my keyboard and monitor! You owe me a new keyboard.
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Not Quite What It Seems... Look Hard :)
by ShannonLee

Comment:
I don't like commenting on titles, but am always put off when I'm instructed what to do by the title. In an illusion challenge I'm going to look hard at the shots and don't need to be told to...
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New Perspective
by akshayvh

Comment:
I see what you were trying to do with this shot, but it just doesn't hold my attention much. I don't know if it's because it's kinda flat depth wise and color wise but it doesn't...
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"In the Faery Realm"
by tmorninglory96

Comment:
A perspective shot I'm assuming? It looks like ya missed by a smidge. It also looks like your 'fairy' doesn't have a head. Your background, though it fits the theme of your title, actually detracts from the shot as it gives it a cluttered look.
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Inside-Out?
by caba

Comment:
I like this a lot. It took me a moment to see what I was looking at though. Great lighting to help bring out definition in the mask itself. The only thing I find distracting is the relatively bright reflection inside the mask.
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BIG brother!
by les0910

Comment:
If this is a perspective shot, it's one of the best I've seen in a while. If the little girl is a cut out which I'm leaning towards thinking, then you got the lighting wrong on the little girl. Her hightlights and shadows don't match the highlights and shadows of the boy! Nice illusion though and it's nice to see decent lighting in a set up shot for a change.
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