Day 05 - Coach
by WalesP

Comment:
Nice portrait with a candid feel to it.

Day 5- Garden Work!
by JLC

Comment:
Are you shooting in manual mode? I am guessing so. The picture is not very sharp and the reason for that is likely the two and a half second shutter speed. You need that shutter speed because the aperture is at F18 so not much light is let in. Besides the obvious downside of a long exposure like that increasing the chance for camera movement, the picture quality itself will start to degrade on a digital camera like the 400D somewhere around F14 or F16 due to light fragementation - some technical thing which I don't remember exactly but Kirbic pontificated on in the forums.

Also if you have photoshop, run a very light smart sharpen over the shot after your final resize. I will usually do something like 50% strength, .03 radius, remove Gaussian Blur - that will tighten things up quite nicely for dpc size images.

Exposure is a bit on the dim side here. Maybe that's your intent.

Could also consider either cropping it so that post on the right is gone or rotating the image so said post is vertically aligned with the side of the frame, keeping the image from feeling/looking tilted.

Day 4 - Quakies
by JLC

Comment:
Assuming this is a crop, I would crop the original so the tree is along the left frame and both rocks are in the frame at the bottom. That would give you a better composition and the eye could move along the rocks.

Day 4 Cindy
by TCGuru

Comment:
A nice, simple portrait.

Day5.jpg
by FotoMunki

Comment:
Excellent lighting. Excellent clarity. Excellent composition. Perfect background too. It takes this shot way beyond the usual baby shot.

The quiet cat
by ATAPE

Comment:
Just a bit more constrast and the cat would pop out of that nice field of bokeh. I like how his/her paws are arranged. Almost like it's posing on purpose.

Day-Five.jpg
by Rooster

Comment:
I like the side lighting and that loooooooooong shadow he is casting.

bailey.jpg
by electrolost

Comment:
Light is a bit harsh, but you caught a good expression on the dog's mug.

B&W Day 4
by emily212

Comment:
Good timing!

B&W Day 3
by emily212

Comment:
This looks like an interesting subject. Lots of neat detail in it.