Ridergal
by Grandad

Comment:
Hello Ken,
Nice effort but I do believe your panning is way over done and the right side of image is to busy a major distraction here. In fact the whole background here is way to distracting.

giraffee
by jenlund70

Comment:
Hi Jen,
Nice image for having limited control of a boxed in moving subject. With that being said, there are three distractions in the background. First the patch clear sky, second the animal just under her chin and third that green leaf (bottom) is reflecting way to much light. As for your main subject, in any wildlife image we must have that catch light in the eye, it's missing here. Your exposure looks fine to me the shadows are what hurt you here. I think what would have been of great help to you in this situaton would have been shooting in continuos mode following the giraffee has she walked along or turned her head. This would have given you a better chance to eliminate the shadows get that catch light or both. With that, I still think this is a great image taking into account the conditons I mentioned above Nice Image !!!!.

"smartypants"
by Lipstudios

Comment:
Hello Andrea,
Very cute, there a just a few very minor things here. His forehead area (right side) has a slight hotspot & down on the bottom (left)the grayish line there is a bit of a distraction. On a personal level I would have rather him be looking at the cal rather then into lens. Other then that, love the image great job !!!.

furrows
by sidpixel

Comment:
Hi Sid,
Nice image, I think the one thing bothering me here is the frontal dof, just seems out of place to me taking away from the overall image.

buttercup
by karmat

Comment:
Hi Karma,
I like the idea but I beleave your choice of the plant itself was the wrong choice. The plant itself has to many spent flowers & the one right in front there is a real distraction. I would have liked to have seen a fuller more tightly packed group. I would have also recomposed eleiminateing the tree line (lower right). In this case because of the butter cup being so small by nature more would have been nice. Also with that beautiful blue sky with no distrations showing us all of the cups would have helped greatly.

Shells
by PaulE

Comment:
Hi paule,
This image does'nt really work for me. I don't care for the compostion here one line dead center leaveing to much dead space to the left and right. Also as you noted yourself the contrasting shades upper left, lower right are killers. The overall texture is also bothersome. Also your first shell (bottom 1/3) the focus seems a bit soft.

MidnightSunset
by jerowe

Comment:
Morning jerowe,
Great image, your compostion is dead on plenty of detail rich color awsome sky. The only thing that was a bit of a distraction is that pin point of light to the right side off in the distance it kept puling my eye. Otherwise it's perfection !

Standing Tall
by ankursomani

Comment:
Hi ankursomani,
I don't think you composed this image very well at all seems to centered to me.Also there is way way to much sky here. The bird off in the background is a distraction as is your arm & hand. I also don't see where it met the challange ?.

smooth flower
by J-Andy

Comment:
Hi Andy,
Nice effort white is tough sometimes. I do believe you are a bit out of focus & a touch over exposed. The red rose is out of place & your crop made it worse. Also the top right corner the glear is really distracting.

the way the trains go
by pellemannen

Comment:
Hi pellemannen,
Nice image, I think i would have taken the twigges out of the image they are just a little distracting and as noted a lower prosective would have been nice. I am also left with the feeling that something is missing here, a train off in the distance maybe ?. I would like to see this again with fresh fallen snow, just a thought :).