Playing for keeps
by Claya

Comment by rick13601:
Good concept and photo. I'm not too fond of the border. IMO its an unnecessary distraction.

Playing for keeps
by Claya

Comment by JCYRHS:
great motion blur

Playing for keeps
by Claya

Comment by stanm2:
like the transparency of the dice

Sleeping beauty
by Claya

Comment by emmylou:
perfect histogram reading for low key challenge.
Good photo.

Sleeping beauty
by Claya

Comment by Simms:
its a pity the background is more in focus than the foreground subject. maybe this was your intention?? if so then it doesnt work as well for me.. nice try though.

Sleeping beauty
by Claya

Comment by rick13601:
Nice photo!

Sleeping beauty
by Claya

Comment by BeeCee:
Good job in getting the contours on the face. Maybe taping some gauze on the back of the shutters would have cut the intensity a bit, given you better control on the light. Also, centering the face diminishes the interest some. I'm new to this style, and found that it's certainly not as easy to obtain as it looks!

Sleeping beauty
by Claya

Comment by mosall:
Very nicely done. One of my 3 favorites for this challenge.

Sleeping beauty
by Claya

Comment by Lilhoop:
like the lighting affect

Major memories
by Claya

Comment by eschelar:
I like ccraft's comments here. The first thing I saw was the perspective. This seems like a person is looking straight down at it, and that can evoke some response as it mimics a normal human view.

On the other hand, I feel that the picture might be stronger overall if you made an attempt to keep exactly the same field of view of the home plate, but brought your camera down to ground level.

Next, you would probably have to move the ball to an appropriate position, preferably fairly prominent, with sufficient detail in the textures of the well-loved baseball, while maintaining the good use of the negative space of the plate (as mentioned by someone else).

It's a very nice picture.

Oh yeah, and I like how close the crop to the home plate is. :)