Christmas space
by rembo

Comment:
I wish you hadn't cut off the bottom of the ornament -- still a pretty picture.

No Acro or Chiono Phobiacs Need Apply
by Coley

Comment:
Excellent job making us feel the fear. I almost get vertigo looking at this.

colors
by eggfox

Comment:
Is there anything in focus in this picture? Maybe a little bit of the straw in the upper right? A nice idea, but would have been eye-popping if you'd had a really clear focal point.

An Ant's View
by TroyMosley

Comment:
Very nice narrow DOF but there's no subject really -- you create a focal point with the focus, which is better than none at all, but still, this would be a far better image if there were something of interest as the focal point rather than being a photo of whichever grass blades wound up in the area of focus. (I say this with kindness and appreciation because I totally take this kind of picture all the time.)

BONUS
by bikefreak

Comment:
Good picture; would have been more effective, I think, if the focus was on the ball, but I respect your right to make your own artistic focus decisions. :)

Presentiment of Death
by grus

Comment:
ehh, I'm torn. You do have a shallow depth of field here, but then you went and desaturated selectively as well, which almost takes away from the effect of the shallow dof and turns it into an effect of selective desaturation. I do like the image very much, just trying to decide if the selective desat is kind of a cheap shot (but very effective, visually.). OK. Giving this an 8 because it is such a compelling image and you did meet the challenge criteria.

Dragonfly
by OdysseyF22

Comment:
This is a pretty image, but unfortunately, even though the dof is shallow, your subject gets lost in the lights behind it.

Smile! It's the Season of Joy
by photoneer

Comment:
I know you'll hear this a lot, but I figured since I'm an early voter I'd go ahead and say it-- the subject fills the frame so completely, and so much of it is in focus, that there's very little sense of shallow dof here. (I like the light though.)

Raining Chains
by MAK

Comment:
Oh, I like this, Interesting.

One Way To Paradice...
by all4u

Comment:
Pretty picture; no noticeable shallow depth of field, however.