BooYakasha!
by Motek

Comment:
What's his name, "Socks"? Gotta love this one. The highly saturated colors work perfectly for this. Hope your model got some doggie treats for putting up with this. A nice high vote for the great photography of this. Also a spiffy "shoehorn" award for injecting some humor into a non-humorous challenge.

Frames
by LMA128

Comment:
Very cute portrait with great eyes. I'm a sucker for eyes.

m y t w o e y e s
by DiSc

Comment:
HAVE to give this one a good vote.

Concentration
by TallPaul

Comment:
I like this, my only nitpick is a little noise reduction could have helped with his cheeks. They appear a touch grainy.

Pup Star
by AnimeSecondToNone

Comment:
There are a few problems with this entry I'm afraid. The major one is poor white balance that is creating a color cast. You may have been shooting this under incandescent bulbs, judging from the yellow cast. Your camera should have a WB setting labeled "incandescent" or "tungsten" that will give a more natural appearance to something under these conditions.

I took my glasses apart and now I'm screwed
by pastortimmr

Comment:
Love the title! The lighting is good, but the image seems a bit grainy and soft. I think most of it is due to the use of excessive JPEG compression. Your file size of only 78k indicates a highly compressed image and that is what could be robbing a lot of the detail and smoothness from this image. Check your compression settings when you save your file. Always adjust JPEG compression so that your file size is as large as possible, but within the challenge limit. (200k for this one)

I don't know what you use for editing, of course, but I have posted an example and some notes on the compression settings in PaintShop Pro:

Hope this is helpful for you.

chopper vision
by cavenpie

Comment:
Not sure sepia suits such a modern subject for me, but other that that, I like this.

It's your Right
by the_GMC

Comment:
I like the idea you are conveying with this, and the overall photography of it is decent. (I reversed it and think I prefer the positive, however) One huge problem, though. There are a ton of JPEG compression artifacts visible in this image, and your filesize of 53k verified that excessive compression was used.

JPG is an image format that can be compressed to make a smaller file. However, it is a lossy format, meaning the compression algorithm looks at adjacent areas of the image and if they are close enough to the same, it codes the data once and simply repeats it. If you compress an image too much, the judgment about what is the same gets really sloppy and you start seeing these grainy, pixelated artifacts.

Always use the least compression you can get away with and still come in under challenge limits. (200k for this advanced challenge) Most image editors have that ability to adjust compression somewhere in the file save dialog. Here is how it works in Paintshop Pro, along with more explanation of compression, if is is of any help:

Close Inspection
by JonathanJ

Comment:
Frog? Lizard? Geico™ gecko? Godzilla? I like it, but hope this doesn't run into the rule about pre-existing artwork, since it looks like a photo of the lizard. The glasses could have used some cleaning or cloning out of some dust specks.

Mike
by dsa157

Comment:
His face is just barely pink enough to look a little odd to me. Otherwise, this is a nice portrait.