Four of a Kind
by kandyj

Comment by Bullwinkle:
Yes this is a cliche. But you have doane a great job of expressing a family. A warm gentle story. Nice skin texture for the most part. There is a slight plastic feel to the baby hands ( small nit pick...sorry). This is my fav shot for this week. Fab job....8 bullwinkle

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by kandyj

Comment by Ptman:
Beautiful image, excellent composition. Blow it up and hang it on your wall, Great shot.

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by kandyj

Comment by Jacko:
Won't be the first one tot say it, would have more impact in Black and White. Still a very beautiful shot. 8 Jacko.

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by kandyj

Comment by jmsetzler:
I think this would have made a lovely black and white... great shot :) - setzler

Healing Families
by kandyj

Comment by PTLParsons:
What emotion, even without the title. I hate posed shots and this does not look posed. What a big job. I like the soft focus, works well. Would have liked it a little softer and not so bright ( or rich in color). Toned down would have emitted more emotion. I hope you can understand what I mean. Still a very good shot. Worth a 7 in my book. PTL

Healing Families
by kandyj

Comment by GeneralE:
A moving photo which suffers a little from low resolution(?) and maybe a little out of focus.

E-Motion
by kandyj

Comment by RiderGal:
Critique Club

Composition - I don't care for the composition here... there wasn't much you could do about it after the fact because the woman's head behind her would have been cut off. Consequently the main subjects head is in a rather akward place and her hands aren't really where they draw attention either. Also the bright orange behind her draws your eye from the subject. maybe getting at a different angle may have helped the photo.

Exposure - The exposure seems ok here... nothing that I can really see wrong.

Color - The main subject is rather dull and the women behind her have color, this detracts from the photo. I may have tried this photo in black and white.

Focus - Even the parts that should be in focus are blurry, this was probably not due to the fact that you weren't in focus, so much as the fact that you were shooting at a very low speed, hand held and had some camera shake.

Background - the background is quite distracting in this photo... maybe trying for a different dof might have been good for this photo (blurring the background some)

Fit for challenge - personally I think this photo fit the challenge very well. I love the way that she looks excited hence the name, and her hands are obviously clapping. Wonderful job on fitting the challenge!

Lighting - good use of available light, which isn't always easy to do.

Wowability - no real oomph here. Maybe it was personal wow, but for the rest of us, not knowing the person or what she was clapping for made the picture rather boring for us.

Final comments - obviously you were going for a candid here, and the fact that the woman is looking directly at the camera doesn't help. Great following of the challenge though.

Neon Twig
by kandyj

Comment by andrewm:
The Critique Club

The idea behind your shot is great but somehow I feel that you have fallen down in the post processing of your image. I am not sure whether it is in focus or out of focus—what colour it is—there seem to be so many colours in evidence on that twig that it could be multi reflections of something—in fact it is such a weird image that the imagination can run wild—and this is the fascination with your image—as you can see from peoples reaction to it. Your post processing has turned an image of an icy twig into an abstract shape.

Andrew

Natural Stream in the Natural State
by kandyj

Comment by lisae:
I like the blur of the water and the soft, pastel green of the lichen. The composition around the rocks is very nice. I think, though, that I would have tried some photos from a lower camera angle to get a more interesting perspective on the rocks. There is little depth in this photo, so it looks a bit flat.

Natural Stream in the Natural State
by kandyj

Comment by Swashbuckler:
Nice, surrene shot. I like the moss covered rocks. 8 Swash