Summer Daydreams
by neenee1999

Comment by lisaseiwert:
How sweet! Good job very nice shot.

Summer Daydreams
by neenee1999

Comment by ttreit:
A bit overexposed, espcially the yellow (far right) bear. The lighting and focus on the girl are quite good. If you cropped it so she was all you saw (might have had to reshoot without the yellow bear) it would have been a really nice shot. This is definitely a case where closing in on the subject would have improved the shot tremendously.

Summer Daydreams
by neenee1999

Comment by Gringo:
Very unusual effect here. It looks like a cartoon. Great work, I'm not sure I would crop her feet off here. - good luck

Her hands lie idle now
by neenee1999

Comment by spiller:
Without the title this shot would not meet the challenge. Everything is out of focus and I assume that's the way you wanted it but I don't think it helps this shot IMO.

Her hands lie idle now
by neenee1999

Comment by Olyuzi:
I like the composition, although I'm not sure it says desloation to me. I do, however, find your lighting to be way too harsh as it obscures the main subject, the sewing machine, with glare to it's body, which blocks interesting detail, as well as, the shadow cast on the background, which confuses it's shape. I don't see any evidence that this machine has not been used in a while, unless your intention was to achieve that effect with the high grain image you've acheived.

Her hands lie idle now
by neenee1999

Comment by ceovishy:
a camcorder photo?

Her hands lie idle now
by neenee1999

Comment by Fayech:
i like your idea here, but the picture quality is really bad. hard to make out all the details.

Her hands lie idle now
by neenee1999

Comment by vjoz:
You ought to give your PostProgressing a small amount of time, there are some good tutorials on DPC, check them out... this is almost to pixelates for me to see....

Her hands lie idle now
by neenee1999

Comment by ursula:
My mum had a sewing machine like this one, you had to pedal to sew. I worked great! It's interesting how this picture looks "old". I like the tone and the composition. It seems to me though that you might have resized from a smaller picture to a larger one? To my eyes it looks pixelated. But I like it. ~7

Her hands lie idle now
by neenee1999

Comment by dr rick:
I like your approach to the challenge. I like the choice of subject and the arrangement of the objects. The title is essential to properly interpret the photo which will bother some people, but I like it. The obvious pixelation adds a fuzziness to the image that adds to its character and enhances its message; this is a uniquely digital technique that I think should be used more often. But you need to watch for diagonal lines like the shadow on the left that gives a stair effect with large pixels. This photo would be a lot more effective if the overall tone was darker and the lighting was softer (the glare across the sewing machine, which should be dark, is especially distracting). A more interesting background would be helpful as well.