Caught In The Act
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Comment by jmsetzler:
I particularly like the red-eye and the motion blur :)

Caught In The Act
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Comment by adine:
Yes, she does look like she's up to mischief, and perhaps she's blurred because she never stop moving. But the kitchen floor background and the chair legs are distracting, and the red eyes from the flash take away from this beautiful little face.

Caught In The Act
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Comment by justine:
Little cutie pie. Love the lace and her expression. Still this has a look of guilt and not surprise to me.

Caught In The Act
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Comment by geminiwb:
...of....

What did she get caught doing??? Other than that the photo is great...a little motion blur and red-eye, but those can be forgiven do to the candid nature of the shot. 6

Light As A Feather
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Comment by jaimeegrl:
I cannot believe you placed last. I do not think people took the time to look at this to get the feel for what you where going for. The pun may have thrown them off. This photo was by far better technically than many that placed higher and it was for certain leaps and bounds better than many other poor examples of literalism.
You should have placed much much better.

Light As A Feather
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Comment by jaimeegrl:
I love tis photo. The colors really make it feel illuminated. It is a bit grainy though, and I feel the focus could have been a bit sharper up front. -7-

Light As A Feather
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Comment by tomlewis1980:
Too much editing, making it hard to see any real detail. sorry.

Light As A Feather
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Comment by Beagleboy:
The colour treatment you have selected is interesting although very hard on the eyes. This is probably the most difficult photo to study visually. You may want to decrease contrast if you try something like this again.

Atop Sacred Ground
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Comment by Quadrajet:
Greetings from the Critique Club.

Of course the first thing I noticed (and apparently a few others) was all the negative space at the top of the image. Well you're in luck, I happen to dig images with a lot of negative space! Unfortunately straight negative space doesn't always net a person a high score from me. There are a few things that kept me from scoring this image higher than I did. (I gave you a 5)

1- The clouds have some detail near the horizon, but for the most part are completely void of any detail at all. I feel, if this were a stormy mottled sky a blue sky, or if the sky were speckled with clouds, then you could really take advantage of your negative space.

2- I noticed that the trees are cropped VERY tightly near the bottom. I don't mind barely seeing the trees, but I would rather not see sky in the breaks of the treeline where the trees have been cropped off.

3- Contrast. The trees seem very drab and in my opinion should hold a much darker value. This (along with less of a crop at the bottom) would help to solidify the image visually...giving it some weight to offset the heavy sky.

Like I said, I like this type of shot and you are on the verge a VERY impressive shot (imho), keep up the good work!

Quadrajet

Light As A Feather
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Comment by vonautsch:
Interesting play on the 'light' part of the phrase. I would only add a little more black on the right upper side to balance to bright feather.