Old School
by goc

Comment by heathen:
very Hoosiers...best shot in the challenge...well done

Old School
by goc

Comment by lambie83:
Interesting old gym...love the wooden floors. I would have liked the soccer ball closer up.

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by goc

Comment by kelli_K:
Dramatic

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by goc

Comment by LanceW:
Meets Challenge: 8
Lighting/Processing: 5
Composition: 6
Overall Impression: 4
"WOW" factor: 3

Average Score: 5.2

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by goc

Comment by hmslove:
heavenly

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Comment by faery:
generally too blurry

Foggy Fields
by goc

Comment by Kivet:
only thing i can add is that there may be just a tad too much open space on the top, maybe taken landscape....

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by goc

Comment by happycats:
Very nice! >>^..^<<

Foggy Fields
by goc

Comment by kevrobertson:
Great use of dead space.
On of the best in his challenge.
Good luck

Kev

essence of my life
by goc

Comment by dahkota:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

An image like this could go 100 different ways. You could have 100 different critiques from 100 different people. None of it matters - you like the image. Does this 'portrait' give me a sense of the boy in the image? Yes, I think so. Are there things I would change on a re-shoot? Yes. Are there things I would edit differently if this was the shot I had? The only thing I can think of would be to loosen the crop a little, if that's possible. The image feels confining in an uncomfortable way, like the boy's world is so limited...

If I had a reshoot? I would lower my camera angle so I'm not looking down on him. It would open up his world - children need a large world. I would ask the person on the right to move so the boy is not in shadow - children need light to grow.

I guess what I am saying is this feels more like a portrait of the photographer - even the title states that this is your world. Not his. For a protrait, I want to see his world and his place in it - I would hope it would be wide open and large. I hope that makes sense. The image itself is fine - in focus, good toning for the lighting available, composed comfortably; but for me, it doesn't move beyond a candid - the capture of a moment in time. I need more to want to look over and over again.