Ducks in the Mists
by NikonJeb

Comment:
very very pleasing shot, jeb. the compostion is great, and i agree with deb, the foreground duck out of focus works well. i'm not mad on the green border, though. my eye keeps being drawn to that, rather than to the beautiful image it contains.

o, and now i have 'dust in the wind' stuck in my head...

Lone
by skewsme

Comment:
a very nice image indeed. the sense of menace is palpable. the colours here work really well. if the bottom left foreground were only slightly darker, that would help to bring the viewer's eye to the wolf with more power and directness.

well done.

Nocturnal Discovery
by Blue Moon

Comment:
very nice image indeed, leah. the composition and exposure are excellent. the fucus is just right, on the eyes. well done!

4.75
by Imagineer

Comment:
just stumbled accross this. wonderful shot, indeed. peaceful and beautiful. well done.

day twenty one - the fifth element
by nixter

Comment:
wow indeed. stunning work.

The Creature Within
by freakin_hilarious

Comment:
subtle and superb. well done.

Vine and wall
by Melethia

Comment:
very very nice indeed. the blurring wors well. almost too much, but not quite. makes it just a little hard to look at, but invites and intrigues, forcing us to look harder. well done.

Everytime we touch... I wanna eat you.
by CaliKat07

Comment:
a very funny interpretation of the title! the composition is quite good, although the go-cart wheels (?) are a little distracting. however, when shooting candids like this, we can't always choose our foregrounds.

however, i think this image could have been gretly improved with different processing. this is an advanced challenge, so you could have been much more flexible with the PP.

the flash light is very harsh, so a masked multiply layer to tone that down might have helped there, and i think converting this to b/w would have helped focus our eyes on the action.

a good start indeed, and keep shooting!

Because of you...
by PsychodelicS

Comment:
in interesting idea, and the beginnings of a very nice image, with interesting symbolism.

however, the set up makes it very hard to read the image. the small silver object on the left is very hard to read - a diamond ring? a pencil sharpener? if this were shot from a higher angle, with all the objects closer to each other, it would make a more dramatic composition.

the flash is also very harsh, creating a very bright foreground where there is nothing happening. ambient light, while somewhat harder to shoot in, probably would create a more pleasing result here. even filtering the flash with a piece of white paper would soften the effect, and make a gentler light.

so, a good start, and keep shooting!

Sexy lady
by whiterook

Comment:
this is an interesting idea, but it could be improved in a few ways. the main probelm is the size and resolution of the image. i realise this may be unavoidable, depending on the equipment you hav to work with, but if you bumped up the resolution in your camera, this would greatly improve the shot.

the rest of what i'm going to say is really hypothetical, if the resolution were better.croppig closer to the woman, so bring the viewrs gazemore immediately to her would certainly help, as at the moment she is rather lost in the background.

so a good start, and keep shooting!