"Winnie"
by tmorninglory96

Comment by jomari:
Just beautiful.

"The Music Maker"
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Comment by snaffles:
great shot, love the comp, just can't figure out who you might be! my bad. 8

"The Music Maker"
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Comment by cptpoland:
Very clean and nice point of view. well done.

"The Music Maker"
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Comment by smudgeSMJ:
Ooh, I like this shot. The black and white looks fantastic. I love the lighting here andthe composition. Great shot.

"Winnie"
by tmorninglory96

Comment by basssman7:
looks like there was a lot of work don around the edges of this image. obscuring a background is illegal even in advanced. I hope it is legal. assuming it is, it gets a 6 from me. :)

"Winnie"
by tmorninglory96

Comment by tanguera:
This will likely get you a ton of sentimental votes. Adorable pooch. Black eyes and button nose really focus the shot, although the fur (esp. the ears) looks oversharpened. Also, there is a real loss of detail at the top of the head.

"Winnie"
by tmorninglory96

Comment by smudgeSMJ:
Cutie pie! But this feels too much like a snapshot for me. I think perhaps if the eyes were sharper and the nose were slightly oof, so that there's more of a feeling of depth that might fix it up nicely. The eyes look really uneven to me. One looks so shiny and one looks really cloudy. Maybe that's the way it really is, but it almost feels like editing or something.

"Winnie"
by tmorninglory96

Comment by Penny Lane:
Winnie is sooooo cute.
Oh yeah, great shot :)

Bliss!
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Comment by ursula:
Greetings from the Critique Club

This is a beautiful entry to the "Bubbles" challenge, right on the mark as far as meeting the challenge, a fun image.

Positives: The feel, it sells the image. The girl looks like she's enjoying the bath and the bubbles all to pieces, "bliss" is the perfect description for this. The strong, yet gentle approach.

Negatives: It looks overly neat-imaged - too much detail lost. Crop.

Technicals: I see no problems with your exposure, and the conversion to B/W is beautiful. As mentioned above, a bit heavy on the neat-image. There seem to be some sharpening artifacts (slightly distracting).

Presentation: Image and title go together perfectly. B/W is a very good choice for the image. IMO, the image would be stronger if it were cropped a bit tighter on the right side, that is, if about 1/10 - 1/8 of the space at the right hand side of the image (her left shoulder) were cropped off.

I hope this helps. Feel free to contact me if I can be of further help.

~Ursula

Bliss!
by tmorninglory96

Comment by zardoz:
I really like this. It's fun yet gentle and the tones are nice. I like the motion blur of the bubbles in the top left. It is a real shame about the loss of detail in the foam on her shoulder. I would have cropped the image just above that point to get rid of the distraction. If it wasn't for that one thing I think this picture would do much better.