where's the phone? teenage habit
by mamabear5612

Comment by Sparky9001:
ha ha ha ahhhhhhh

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Comment by hallswel:
Challenge centered ΓΆ€“ 5
Creative ΓΆ€“ 10
Appeal (is it interesting?) ΓΆ€“ 10
In Focus/Clear - 8
score 8

This is a beautiful picture of the child and butterfly. I am drawn to the child's face. I am sure the butterfly is what you wanted everyone to look at.

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by mamabear5612

Comment by melismatica:
The child's skin tone is rather washed out (from flash, I suspect). I'm baffled by the choice of black and white for a butterfly garden. The background could have used a bit more blurring. The fence in the lower left corner is distracting. The composition is really nice (with a teeny bit more cropping of the left side of the frame). I gave it a 5.

where's the phone? teenage habit
by mamabear5612

Comment by ElGiri:
nicely cropped, good tones, dubious 'habit' connection

where's the phone? teenage habit
by mamabear5612

Comment by carlos:
I dont know what's wrong exactly with this one to me, the face isn't in focus? the background should be more our of focus? nothing is in focus? Maybe I cannot point where the focus plane is, to me it should be on the models's face clearly.

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Comment by cpanaioti:
Good choice of subject and the child's glance leads you right to the main subject, however the contrast is a little low and the backgroung is not blurred enough and therefore distracting. A larger aperture (smaller number) would help blur the background more. 6

where's the phone? teenage habit
by mamabear5612

Comment by Happy Bunny:
more contrast might have brought the pic alive.

where's the phone? teenage habit
by mamabear5612

Comment by briphoto:
Definitely an obsessive habit!

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Comment by e301:
The blat of that flash is real pity -- murdering the detail in foreground. I guess it would have been near-impossible without it, but that doesn't stop it causing problems. Would it have been impossible to crop in tighter on the hand and the butterfly? Might have made for a much less snap-shot-like composition.

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by mamabear5612

Comment by kaycee:
IMO, this would have done better with color. It looks like the colors are lovely - but there isn't enough contrast as it is. Of course, I realize that perhaps that is why you chose black/white - sometimes too much color doesn't show well either.