Blackout
by aelith

Comment:
What scares me more than a poweroutage is a candle burning and melting wax down into a keyboard! Because of the low light shooting condition, the picture is a little soft and very grainy in the darker areas. I wish I could delineate the flame from the candle, but that portion is all blown out.

Bee Attack (live bee)
by Swashbuckler

Comment:
decent macro on the bee -- if a little dark. Not so interested in the composition though -- or on the skin and hairs -- good idea for fear though. That little bit (of grass?) up in the upper left corner is distracting.

Eeek!
by Jonniboy

Comment:
Nicely done. Love the motion blur on the broom. It would have been, in my opinion, better with a real rodent -- BUT -- I think using the fake one makes this shot very funny. So who knows... The one thing I want to see, but I can't figure out how to do (and so it has no bearing on my vote) is a little more to the diagonal composition. The human legs further to the left and the rodent to the right. The only way I can think to do it is move the chair -- and that would ruin the chair as the bridge between the rodent and the human legs, so....

Watching scary movie...
by Photo Jim

Comment:
If the popcorn had been flying in a startled arc from the hands up into the upper right corner, I would have given this those extra points. It's a little out of focus/soft -- which may be your camera. I think it's too brightly lit -- a darker, moodier scene, like you're watching TV at night would have been more appropriate, I think. I've got to say, the jacket on the attacker just doesn't work for me -- but that's a personal thing.

when sparklers attack
by queen 91

Comment:
OK, I'm guessing this is staged -- and that's totally OK -- but what scares ME is if this wasn't staged, the kid really does have something in his eye, and you pulled out your camera and took a picture of it. :-) Love the glare of the sparklers, and for what ever reason, the hiding behind the hand works. I wish I couldn't see the car and that the kids in the background were a little more evenly distributed across that background space.

Facing fear
by freetime

Comment:
I assume this is a fear of heights shot. If I'm wrong, well, none of the following comments apply. :-) The rouble I'm having is in seeing that this is a height shot. from what I can see in the picture, the cement (?) below the walk might be just a few inches below or it might be hundreds of feet. There's nothing in the picture to really say (at least nothing I can see). Fun angle, interesting lines, a little bit soft in the focus as I look at the foot. Just need that element of height to kick it up.

Fuzzy
by spiderman

Comment:
Close to being a great shot. But unless you're afraid of just the legs of a spider.... (I know, I know... very picky.) I wish you could see more of this guy's face and not just the legs. You're close enough and have such a great definition of the hairs on the legs that I bet the eyes would look great.

trapped
by heartsdivide

Comment:
Sorry, I understand what you were trying to convey, but I can't get a sense of being trapped from a shot of tree branch silhouettes overhead. Trees generally desginate open space -- as does the blue sky and puffy white clouds. I think you might have delivered the concept better with some other silhouette.

www.missingkids.com/
by myqyl

Comment:
I think this turned out well and is a great example of fear. OK, I realize this is probably a real child's bedroom, but becuase it's a set shot, I'm going to look at it that way. I wish there were some kind of poster or picture on the wall next to the bed -- just a lot of white space that it seems needs to be filled. I think I would have also left the screen somewhere in the room -- as it now is, I can't imagine someone abducting a child and dealing with the screen in that position. Needs to be all the way in or out of the room. Finally, the color levels seem off -- either not bright enough, or not dark enough. All this sounds very critical, and it's not meant to be -- this is one of the best shots this week, in my book.

Caught with a Hand in the Cookie Jar
by timichel

Comment:
Very cute. 2 things keeping me from REALLY likeing the shot. :-) First, the child's expression looks like he was told to act surprised. (Maybe he really was -- but I can't help laughing at the expression. *grin*) More than that, however, this is really flat tonally. Apart from the cookie jar, nothing else has any real shadow values -- everything's just kind of middle grey. (The flash highlight off at the edge of the window needs a little work as well.)