Lost Romance
by nephoto

Comment:
the framing seems too sparse, I realise that you were going for the lost and lonley look, but the image leaves my eye hungry for more. Technically the twig closest to us is a bit blown out and the over all composition might have been helped by darker blacks.

Amor est vitae essentia
by kiwiness

Comment:
Tell me you didn't dodge the edges here, because the subject is handled tastfully, with just a bit of heat and the lightng is almost perfect (the man's hair is a bit blocked up) and the composition of the models with strong diagonals pulling the eye through the frame is all so good that this will ribbon. So I hope you did those falling off edges with lighting and no dodging because I'd like to see this with a blue ribbon and not under a pink stripe.

Eagle1.jpg
by halcyon

Comment:
I like your other entry better as a photograph, but it was so clearly a zoo shot that I think this one which could have been shot in nature would have scored better. It would benfit from a bump in saturation and a bit of shadow filter to bring out the feathers on the chest.

Bass Harbor Light
by Neil

Comment:
I look at this and think, there is so much more i could be doing with my wide angle lens. An amazing display of subtle shadows and colors, a nice reprive from the supersaturations.

Migration Interupted
by ellamay

Comment:
A stunning peice, i can almost hear the hoofbeats. Some of the otherwise lovely shots in this challenge lacked a verb, this almost suffers from too much action!

Wildlife II
by srdanz

Comment:
yup this is the one. for me it is the relationship between the tones on the bird, and the tones on the backround, which invert almost perfectly here to give the outline a crisp definition on both the black and white areas of the bird.

Message edited by author 2006-02-01 13:14:48.

el`e·men'tal : John Paul Caponigro
by Rikki

Comment:
I think there might be an issue here. Rikki goes to Japan and returns a ribbon winning machine! Time to check the basment for pods!

congratulations who ever you really are.

Island crab
by Uritrips

Comment:
Oh if only this were a touch bigger and the blacks a bit stronger! The camera angle really brings this guy right in to the viewer, and the OOF mountains in the backround and those puffy clouds are a perfect counterpoint to the action in the foreground. 8

Skimming Along
by gbloore

Comment:
I like how low to the water you are here, both the bird and the POV. The colors are rich and the shape of the bird and the trailing feet are well defined. Of course getting the water that nice tone came at the cost of conciderable loss of detail in the wing. Some day I will see a shot that gets all the textures in the egret's wing, but still keeps the backround nice and bright.Still good focus and DOF; ought to be right up there if the big white birds over water don't split their votes.

Great Everglades Egret
by LVE

Comment:
Nice capture and I like the way the shadows of the reeds describe the curvature of the bird's body, but the lighting puzzles me. If you took this at night then it is an amazing job color balancing, if this was taken by daylight then you burned the edges so much that the pool of remaining light is as much of a feature of the shot as the bird. Either way it detracts form the elegant form of tthe bird.