Family Circle
by ChasSourek

Comment:
Nice idea, original and evocative. 2 complaints, the landscape crop throws the balance off with 2 sleeved arms and one set of hands cropped at the wrist: and the color balance is shifted to the red. A bit of time balanceing out the colors would make this a better shot. Should do pretty well, but you could have done very well but for these small flaws.

Use #523 of the human hand.
by shes_trouble

Comment:
Cute shot but 75% of this shot is sweater and boring backround, as the old saw goes "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't standing close enough." Her hand and the eyes are the stoy here, I want more of them.

Practicing
by elisab

Comment:
Since the hands are 90% of this shot, you need to get then both all the way in the frame. Shoot looser, and crop the shot in editing, better to loose a few pixels than to loose part of the subject.

I Love You
by Arcanist

Comment:
Nice idea well framed, but you missed the full tonal range! no brights, just dark to midtones, it's like signing with one hand! Come on, work that histogram.

Hand Selected
by BlownAway

Comment:
Tough to shoot so wide an exposure range, and while the action is well shot the hand itself is too dark to see the detail that is hinted atin the outline that is visible.

Work Hands
by flip89

Comment:
I love the right side of this shot, but the left is all blown out or inky black. The gesture seems a bit oddd, but the skin tones are the best in he challenge so far, at least where you can see them.

Daddy's Always There
by O'Holleran

Comment:
beautifull gesture, well framed. the backround could be better, it is either blotchy or you have sensor dust, and it is too near in tone to the skin tone to allow the eye to easily follow this lovely composition.

I'm sorry
by evylyn

Comment:
clipping the top of the rose out of the frame hurts a nice job of moving the eye trough the frame. the light os flat and needs more pop to bring out detail in the back of the hand and to saturate the colors in the roses.

Band Hands
by obsidian

Comment:
too much band, not enough hands. nice colors and mood, but getting tighter on the hands of one player or the other would have worked better.

Refresh
by JulieG

Comment:
I wish the hands had a bit more shadow on some side or the other, the lighting is a bit too even making them look flat. Other than that, every thing is just right, ought to be top ten.