In the Curtains
by cloudsme

Comment by dahkota:
off centered adds. like the textures. 8

In the Curtains
by cloudsme

Comment by jencurrie:
Lovely shot

Jurassic Play
by cloudsme

Comment by fotomann_forever:
::: Greetings from Critique Club :::

Hi, as requested, here is an indepth critique of your submission.

First Impression - the most important one:
Indeed a nice fun, colorful portrait of the wonders of youth.

Composition:
Composition is good. Very well constructed.

Subject:
Crisp, clean, very well defined.

Technical (Colour, focus, and light):
Colour is wonderful, beautiful saturation.
Focus: You have super sharp focus on the child's eyes and just brings this photo to life.
Light in this photo brings out those wonderful colors. Nice indeed.

To grow its vote?:
While I have nothing but praise so far, this is where I'm going to have to give you a bit of negative feedback. This is a wonderful portrait, but it didn't fit the challenge. Voters were looking for candid shots in crowds, as suggested by the challenge description. Yes, you could say you singled this child out, but not in the context of what was expected.

Summary:
Overall, I love this image, but not in the context of this challenge. Had I voted on this challenge, it would have scored no higher than 5 or 6. Had I voted for it in a portrait challenge or "wonders of childhood" challenge, 8-9 (even 10) easily.

Hope to see more from you soon,
Leroy

Jurassic Play
by cloudsme

Comment by GeneralE:
Those look like brachiosaurs ... nice contrast between the bright colors fore- and background and the skin-tones of the child.

Jurassic Play
by cloudsme

Comment by melismatica:
"Drop your fear of candids this week and single-out a person in a crowd as your source of composition. Use minimal depth-of-field to your advantage to help isolate your subject, and as always, be creative."

While you have been creative and you have used minimal DOF to isolate your main subject you ignored the main idea which was, from my understanding, to take a candid in a crowd. I few toys isn't what I would call a crowd and it is debatable whether this is a candid rather than a posed shot.

Jurassic Play
by cloudsme

Comment by AzCKelly:
Beautiful, Love the intensity in the eyes, you can see how focused he is in his play.

Jurassic Play
by cloudsme

Comment by woohoopepper:
very nice - 9

Jurassic Play
by cloudsme

Comment by posthumous:
a semi-copout on the challenge but who cares when you create such a beautiful picture! This reminds me of my excitement over dinosaurs at that age. 8.

Jurassic Play
by cloudsme

Comment by Man_Called_Horse:
nice attempt, great color, very nice light, just a bit soft, overall very nice

Jurassic Play
by cloudsme

Comment by agenkin:
Nice portrait. The OOF subjects did not render very pleasantly in this shot. Otherwise I would have given it full marks.