the wisdom of morpheus
by jonathans

Comment:
I don't get the title, but that's beside the point. I like the way the shadow on the hand works, but I'm not keen on the background shadow -- perhaps using a secondary light source would help kill that. The color of the hand is also a little... saturated, maybe? (Whether in camera, or post-processed it just seems a little too "pink.") I don't have a battery to compare it too, but the copper band seems a little dark, as well.

beach boys
by wolfjack

Comment:
Nice idea, but I think it would have been even better as a photo if you'd moved closer to the main subjects so you could avoid placing all the other people in the foreground. I didn't realize at first, but the actual horizon (the ocean) is crooked, while the perceptual horizon is straight. It didn't bother me until I realized it, but it's not very noticeable. I like the idea of these guys as silhouettes, but I'm not sure if you'd be able to tell what they're doing if you went that far. Maybe if you just brought up the levels over all -- the sand and ocean are pretty dark.

The Pitch
by AnAUTiger

Comment:
This is a well timed shot, but the colors seem very strange. I thnk it needs some levels work in an editing program. The horison line is also a little crooked -- I'd suggest rotating it slightly clockwise.

Preparing for blastoff! ... but captain, its fooseball not your spaceship.
by gja2600

Comment:
If only you'd got the focus on the face instead of the hands. Such a great expression. I think a vertical format would have helped this picture as well. Especially one where you shot it that way originally and could have gotten more of the foosball table in the lower end of the picture. As it stands, however, even cropping it vertically would help minimize some of the distracting elelments around him and help focus attention on the subject.

Let the Games Begin!
by cameo

Comment:
So is this an action figure??? I think maybe I could have accepted this more in terms of the present challenge if he'd had a torch in one of his hands. It's an interesting pose and I like the background, but nothing at all is sharply focused. There's also the noise in the clouds, but I realize that may be unavoidable with your camera.

Dungeons and Dragons
by eddy

Comment:
I like the oranges and blues in this. I'm not sure why you went with the motion blur on this one -- not that I have a problem with it, but because I can't tell what you're doing, what's being moved. Dice? A playing piece? Also, the anchor point of the image seems to be the medusa-like figure in the center of the foreground, but it's in front of the focal plane and slightly out of focus. Either a smaller aperture, or different focal point is needed, in my opinion.

Jumbled Jacks
by rumttugger

Comment:
I really like the idea here. I'd guess you did, but I would play around with the composition a bit more -- something doesn't feel quite right to me. Aside from the issue of composition, which is a very subjective issue, the colors here don't seem quite right. Maybe a little too blue? And a little too dark on the ball? The brightness issue is a difficult one though cause that might blow out the jacks.

Football
by karmat

Comment:
This seems somewhat silly to me because at least one of the participants is a married man. But who am I to judge what games people can and can't play at what age. :-) I think it would have been a little more fun if kids were playing. It's an interesting set up though. I wish you could see a different angle of the "ball" but then you wouldn't have been able to get the great first person point of view. foreground hands were a little too cose to the flash and so washed out and all three shadows take away, in my opinion, from the finished image. Hard shot to get without a flash though, so other than a different flash location I don't know what to suggest.

Battleship
by #1 Bronco Fan

Comment:
Well, I already know you've received comments about the grain. Since this seems to me like an advertising shot, I'd suggest trying to move the box a little higher over the game so we can see all of the name of the game. I like the way the hands on the box look like they're actually playing the real life game (especially the one on the left). Maybe you could try doing that a little bit more on the right too.

tennis court
by mnewman

Comment:
I considered doing something similar to this with the upside down challenge. I don't like putting things like this into comments, but this shot really needs at least 1 tennis ball somewhere. I'd also consider trying to crop/shoot this to avoid the fences and trees in the background and keep it even more simple. But that's me. Love the pattern of the net though.