Anne
by daisydavid

Comment:
Very well done - beautiful lighting and I particularly like that you have chosen to include the hands.

Someone Already Took A Bite of My Cookie
by pmichaud

Comment:
I like your slightly downward POV, I think that works really well.

_0322
by MinsoPhoto

Comment:
Excellent expression - if this were my son he'd be pulling a face for sure.

Looking At Me
by gsal

Comment:
This is tremendous. An imaginative and effective crop too.

Rebecca @ f-1.2
by Paul

Comment:
Thanks Leo - I suppose it would be possible to angle the lens so that both eye and mouth are in focus, but when I look through the viewfinder it's difficult to tell what is or isn't in focus, especially in lowish light.

Quite happy to practice though!!

Snow Leopard
by Alain

Comment:
Looks as good as anything that adorns my Apple Mac screens.

Flight
by xianart

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Fantastic light you have here and your editing has made the most of it. A nice moment captured - I can almost feel the child's excitement from here. Your decision to use a vignette was, in my opinion, inspired - it really, really suits the image.

Critical stuff: Perhaps it need straightening a touch?

Overall: I really like this.

Mamma Mia!
by LN13

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Larry, I like a number of elements in this image, the clarity of the signs in particular and the dominance of the Sean Combs billboard. The toning is excellent too - you have contrast in all the right places.

Critical stuff: I don't think this is as powerful as your October Free Study entry - the inclusion of the heads detracts from the image for me - I liked the other because it felt like I had just been helped to look up, to notice things.... Here I feel more like on of the masses... head forward, eyes down, move forward.

Overall: Nice, but for, it doesn't compare favourably with the other image.

Peinture de paysage
by bubeltrubel

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: Really lovely shot with very brave bold toning - I like that. The clarity of the top of the tree works really well when placed against the misty backdrop. The painter below the canopy transform the image from a fairly vanilla landscape into something almost cinematic. I want to know what those structures are on the other side of the tree.... to leave this ambiguous ads to the image. I'd have cloned them out - you were right to keep then in.

Critical stuff: The bush to the right - I use my hand to crop the image just to the left and the whole image seems more polished to me.

Overall: Very nicely made.

journey
by LevT

Comment:
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: There is something about this simple scene that just stops me in my tracks - it is so beautifully captured, so honest, so lacking in fuss, so everyday, so slice-of-life. There is beauty in that simplicity - I overwork my images to near death so I feel I have learnt something just by looking at this. It is really transportive too - I feel like I am there.

Critical stuff: Nothing at all.

Overall: Lovely, subtle, even masterful shot.