Shelly
by BeeGee

Comment:
looks to be blured or out of focus. possible too much gaussain blur or neat image, or to slow a shutter.

Ms. Perfect Smile
by thegrandwazoo

Comment:
way to over prossesed, to smooth almost to the point of being out of focus

Colour in Shadow
by mocabela

Comment:
there is a nice sence of texture to this, the skin tone below the left eye is really odd and uneven.

hands you can hear
by shenanigans

Comment:
**(an non-offical critique)**

hey just ran into this by way of tracing comments....and...

if that is a vintage jag its pretty kick-ass (rufuring to the guitar of corse)....

anyhow i like the idea of the shot but just have some help as to the exicution...

its basic edit, so dogging is out and you need to bighten up the image, don't use the pop up flash on your reb. as you did....instead in future grab up a fuji film can (the opaque white ones for color film) and make yourself a little omni bounce, its simple and will even out your light for all of 4 or 5 bucks. (just make a slit in the side using an exacto or scisors and slip it over the top of you flashwhen it is poped up.

also, he was really playing, that is cool and all but it always looks wrong, if you've ever taken a pic of a person while they are talking you'll know what i mean it looks funny, well inorder to really grabe you viewer tell him to make up a chord or hand position that he would never play but looks like it is real, when all else fails you basic power chord hand position works well.

lastly framing, like i said i like the focus to the hand that is what you want you viewer to see, but if you were to include the head stock (the full fender roll at the top) or if you and have him move his hand up to the lens distorted spot on the neck frist or second frett angloe the guitar pointing it a little more drasticly toward the camera and really draw attention to the hand (my eye goes to that 1st frett right off not his hand and thats all i'm trying to help you solve)....then you would have a wapper on an image.

and your viewer would really be able to get lost in every point of it.

very cool tho and always gotta love a nice guitar. (espicaly a fender)

_brando_

At the Butcher's
by e301

Comment:
just found out the other day dude to a thread that you are one of my statistical favs. lol i gess i know why after seeing this in the challenge it was a fav. right off the bat.

the moment holds so much its can truly be said that you picture is worth well over a thousand words.

and i am so glad to see it hit top 3 i truly think it is deserving of 1st but the cards fell as they did eh'.

anyhow couldn't let it pass off the front page with out telling you just how truly classic and great this image is. the only way i can really put it is-

you know those classic photo books the ones with Brasson, and Mark and such? well this is of that grade and if they ever re-publish the time life book of photography series, this image should be in it.

editing or no Brasson is smiling somewhere just after seeing the look on the face of the Butcher.

truly a fav.

Flood Tide & Cattails — Sunset
by Bear_Music

Comment:
way to go bear...steller image nice job taking the blue with a shot that is not a tme exposure ;O)

_bran(well invisioned)do_

2 Second Pulse
by fotodude

Comment:

Originally posted by davidx76: Not bad for a filler image I suppose ;-)

i really should change that now that its over....i was trying hard to get all the cars in the frame to be sharp and the jeep didn't really coperate. but hey....that life.

thanks for the comment

_brando_

Downtown
by flip89

Comment:
Nice job Ken

i actualy wish this had been my shot ;O)

way to go on the top ten.

_brando_

Living in the Trash
by bigfish

Comment:
i never saw this 1 man. nor did i know you submitted to this challenge. lol. anyway i like it with the more contrasty B&W tone, they work well for it. but the other side of the ally is a bugger its kinda distracting and if possible i think you should've framed it out using an angled/slantted framing. would've also made the shot more dynamic.

An Ominous Approach
by fadedbeauty

Comment:
love the cool color tones the sharpness, and focus of this. really a nice exposure. looks about .25 tilted down to the right. but still great shot. would love to see (if you did did any) virts of this in your portfolio after the challenge.