Summertime and the Livin's Easy
by jdannels

Comment:
Very nice.

Chalkman
by Transit

Comment:
Quite nice.

One Sided Love
by elsapo

Comment:
This is great.

Shane
by MaryO

Comment:
I'm so sorry to hear Shane passed away. Just lost one of ours last fall and I know what a horrible thing it is. Best wishes.

Blow-dried
by jodis_eva

Comment:
Coming back around to this. I think if you had perfect focus on this you would have easily been well into the 6's with your score. Might not be what you were going for, but it's certainly what voters go for.

Cute in Black and White
by MaryO

Comment:
Awesome.

Ariana 7
by Makka

Comment:
Very nice pose indeed. Probably like this best of the bunch as well.

For the duotones - the lack of tonal separation really sucks the life out of them (in my opinion). I don't think gray on gray works to your advantage for that type of processing. Just my 2 cents.

Aren't I Cute?
by MaryO

Comment:
Man, all of the shots of this bird are great. His coloring is just wonderful and makes such a pleasing gradient in this light. Any chance you could do this one in black and white?

9.jpg
by hanneke

Comment:
This is my fav of the bunch. Nice tones and the darkness around her eyes is very entrancing for some reason.

Caballero
by Brad

Comment:

Originally posted by Brad: Candid and Portrait - Same thing? Not trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes here, but this candid proved that it can also be a portrait.

Not sure it really proves anything other than a candid shot doesn't always look like a candid shot. If you told me you were three feet from this guy shooting with an 85mm and telling him 'look over there', I would have bouht it was a regular portrait session.

I think the other side of the argument in that thread was more of is a telephoto shot of someone buying an ice cream cone down the block a portrait? At least tht was my take.

Anyway, hell of a shot. Was one of my favs in the challenge.