Michael and Rachael
by JBHale

Comment by hanneke:
oh my, this looks like they just walked out of a christmas-movie!

2 things to make this perfect imho:

- lighten the whole photo a bit up, it looks a little bit on the dark side..
- clone the left-bottom thing out (oh, now I see it's his shirt), to make it perfect.

:)

Candace
by JBHale

Comment by jeger:
Very nice smile.

Candace
by JBHale

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
Nice portrait, though the crop does not seem to fit the image to me.

Candace
by JBHale

Comment by FocusPoint:
Very nice portrait. I like the smile :) technically very nice too :D

Candace
by JBHale

Comment by kvickrey:
pretty model, pretty light, pretty model. well done.

Candace
by JBHale

Comment by aerogurl:
what a smile! beautiful!!!!!!!!

Candace
by JBHale

Comment by loseme:
I really like the close up, the coat really gives us some added depth. I might try to adjust the lighting a little so we don't have quite so much on the forehead, nose and teeth.

Candace
by JBHale

Comment by DistantColours:
The face is over-exposed.

University of Maryland team takes second place in Solar Decathlon
by JBHale

Comment by geoffb:
Hi from the Critique Club,

First of all, congratulations on your journalistic eye. Sure, technicals aren't perfect in this image, but your timing and ability to predict the shot are what make this image quite a good one. I really like how you captured the expression of the woman in the front looking back at the trophy. Editing rules prevented you from adjusting this image in post-processing, but I think it would look quite good in a newspaper as a tight vertical crop.

I think petrakka said it quite well:

Originally posted by petrakka: while not the best photo, one of the truly photojournalistic shots in this challenge i think. nice catching the moment.

With that said, I think you've done about as much as you could have for the situation. Based on your aperture, it looks like you were at about 50 mm (assuming you were as wide open as possible for the focal length you were at), so you were probably too far away to use on-board flash. Good foresight to maximize your ISO to get a reasonable shutter speed; noise isn't always ideal, but any more blur would have probably made this a toss away shot. (And in this case, the noise is negligible.)

Good job here. You've done your job by capturing the moment nicely.

Regards,
Geoff

University of Maryland team takes second place in Solar Decathlon
by JBHale

Comment by petrakka:
while not the best photo, one of the truly photojournalistic shots in this challenge i think. nice catching the moment.