Jurassic Play
by cloudsme

Comment by PhotoRyno:
very nice

Jurassic Play
by cloudsme

Comment by xtine:
beautiful portrait,really captivating.colours and focus of the dinosaur "frame" are wonderful.

Jurassic Play
by cloudsme

Comment by Germaine:
This is a good picture, but, IMHO, not for this challenge. You are supposed to single the subject out from a crowd. I'm afraid I don't see the crowd.

Jurassic Play
by cloudsme

Comment by KiwiShotz:
The challenge asked for a person to be singled out in a crowd. He's kind of on his own but I think the dinosaurs might qualify as a crowd :) Nice shallow DOF and light too.

Mother's Love
by cloudsme

Comment by nsbca7:

Originally posted by nsbca7: On camera flash ruined a potentially good picture.

I'm sorry. New voting structure strikes again. I didn't leave this comment on your image. I put it on a different image and it ended up on yours. I wonder you weren't confused as to why i would post that to your image. Again, sorry.

Jurassic Play
by cloudsme

Comment by Jutilda:
The DOF is good but I don't see him being singled out of a crowd. I might also adjust curves a smidge.

Sun Coral
by cloudsme

Comment by kteach:
Lots of little bursts of color in this shot. I like the shallow dof, but it's almost a tad too shallow since the top of the coral isn't quite focused. Great color!

Sun Coral
by cloudsme

Comment by obsidian:
striking composition

Sun Coral
by cloudsme

Comment by MacDonald:
lovely colors

Mother's Love
by cloudsme

Comment by ursula:
From the Critique Club:

Composition: I think the composition is excellent, but I also think that it is the kind of composition that is going to get a lot of mixed reactions. One of the mother's eyes is "cut off", and that is going to bother a lot of people. The only thing visible of the child is the hair, and that, again, is going to bother a lot of people. But for your presentation, the composition is excellent.

Technical: Again, very good work. The only addition that might help is a catchlight in the eye.

Post-processing: Beautiful! I see no problems with it.

Challenge: It meets the challenge topic well, actually right on. You got quite a good score for it, although probably not as high as you wished. I think what hurt is the mixed reactions the photo produces - too many people hung up on the close crop.

Hope this helps.

If you have any questions/comments, feel free to contact me. Take care,

Ursula