Graduation
by JonathanJ

Comment by JunieMoon:
I think your white balance was way off on this one. Also, the exposure may have been too short, or iso may have been too low. It left speckles all over the skin. Work on aperture and shutter to try to get clearer, more accurate images.

Graduation
by JonathanJ

Comment by jonfrommk:
Like the way you have capured the eyes looking to the skies (beware flying hats) a little bit noisy but a nice image

Encircled
by JonathanJ

Comment by landcamera:
Very symmetrical, nice colors 8

Graduation
by JonathanJ

Comment by gerdagrice:
No doubt because of the low light, this image is very noisy, which is a shame.

Encircled
by JonathanJ

Comment by mian3010:
to blurry face

Graduation
by JonathanJ

Comment by jblaylockrayner:
Nice fun but let badly down on the technical side. Too unsharp and not too well cropped.

Graduation
by JonathanJ

Comment by TooCool:
This photo has a lot of problems with it that come from (IMHO) a probable combination of three facters. It looks like it was indoors in a very low lighting situation. This makes your camera want to shoot at a higher ISO (causing more noise). It looks like you were probably zoomed way out (causing loss of sharpness which you want to try and fix with sharpening). It looks like a very tight crop (makes the noise in the shot even worse and makes it harder to correct colors and such because of the lower amount of data). How do you take better shots in these situations? Kinda depends on your camera. Without that info I can't give good suggestions but if you post this in the forums after the challenge is over I'm sure you can get a lot of info to help in the future.
TC

Encircled
by JonathanJ

Comment by Shadowi6:
looks peaceful, nice colours

Graduation
by JonathanJ

Comment by emlbaker:
In an advanced editing challenge this one appears to be a Point and Shoot image. Massive amounts of noise and blowouts in the skin in the two people on the right.

Graduation
by JonathanJ

Comment by shalrath:
Feels slightly out of focus, but a good moment.