Bath Time
by bsatttu

Comment:
This is such an adorable portrait of this child! Love the tones and contrast. The sharpness of detail is great from those big adorable eyes to the bubbles running down the cheek. My only critique is that I think you can crop the left 1/3 of the photo for it is just empty space that does nothing for the composition. The tighter crop on the face will keep the viewer's attention focused on the child's face.

Intense Fairy
by chesire

Comment:
Oh this is beautiful! Love the play of light that really picks up the shine & highlights in her hair. Tones and contrasts are captured beautifully - especially on her skin. Detail, lighting, and composition is just wonderful. Lovely capture of this little girl with a pondering expression. It makes me wonder just what she is so intent in thought about.

day 04
by Firsty

Comment:
I absolutely love the crop and the border choice. The border gives an impression of a 'widescreen' view but we get an especially close-up view of the cow as she stares back at us. Clarity/details of the face is wonderful - look at the eyelash detail and those wonderful black flecks of color on her white striped portion of her face!!!! Love the black & white tones of the cow really pop in this photo - contrast of subject and capture could not be any better.

run
by boysetsfire

Comment:
Love the sense of motion here. The man is a blur but that motion seems very appropriate to the mood here - a dark running man feel; a man in motion running from dark thoughts or his mood is dark as he runs from his emotions. Also by lucky capture (or planned) the clouds seem to radiate out from the center of his position in the frame thus helping draw the eye and keeping it focused on the moving man. I like the dark contrast and tones here for it adds to the mood. While I said that I get a capture of a dark man running I also get another 'story' capture from looking at this image. A ghostly figure that we only get a glimpse of as it passes by from the corner of our eye. If we then look full on at the scene I get the feel that the 'ghostly' figure would just vanish. Nice job with mood and lighting, I get two 'stories' from studying the photo.

San Pietro
by Rino63

Comment:
The grain level is a little too high - I can see where use of it would add a feeling of a days gone by mood when placing the mood in relation to the old architecture of the buildings in the shot but too much detracts. The sky looks blown out in spots - either a gradient, levels or some burning will tone down the blown contrasts.

Day4 - Dandelion In The Wind
by jonfrommk

Comment:
Wow, the level of detail is stunning. Great job in capturing all the lovely details on this dandelion - right down to the exposed stem from where some seeds have taken flight. Contrast is excellent. The white and lighter tones of the dandelion really pop off the dark background.

3
by mia67

Comment:
What a wonderful candid capture of these twin boys (if they are not they look an awful lot alike)! The one on the right is in more detailed focus than the boy on the left I think a higher F-stop along with a slower shutter speed would increase the DOF. The contrast and tones are excellent. And by happy accident (or planned) I like that each child is wearing a jacket that is highly contrasting to the other (one light, one dark). Love the candid expression - they are looking intently at something just off camera. That also draws in the viewers attention for we wonder just what are they looking at.

day 5 Let me out
by mawear

Comment:
Absolutely great composition and perspective! The cat's paw batting at the camera really pops out and pulls the viewer's attention into the composition. B&W tones and contrasts are great too and the sharpness of details are wonderful too right down to the 'eyelash' hairs.

B&W - Day 3
by mk

Comment:
Normally I don't look for an impressionistic painting look in a photograph but you have captured one here - and without doing any heavy post-processing to achieve this effect which is impressive. I do like how you have captured this nature scene as a quick impressionist painting. What I don't like is that some of the contrasts and tones are flat. I think bringing up some of the tones and contrasts in this "photo painting" would really make it stand out. Also, lovely capture of the geese in flight among the natural setting of the trees. Very pleasing to the eye and a soothing scene to look upon. And yes, it would have been nice to capture the full wing instead of it being cut out BUT you work with what you get (and impressionist painters sometimes had to work quickly to capture the light before it faded and changed the mood and feel of the scene)

three/thirty
by UNCLEBRO

Comment:
Smaller F-Stop (here at F22) and longer shutter time (here 2.5 seconds) can really get the results of beautifully rich detail - and you have done so here. I like the different perspective you took. Showing us the underside of the flowers shows us the beautifully rich detail of the underside of the petals and 'backside' support of the flower. Great textures, tones and details are captured in this composition. I am not very fond that the vase is showing for it detracts from the beauty of the flowers. A smaller vase with a lower profile would have allowed more stems to show thus giving the viewer the perspective 'impression' that we are sitting lower than the towering flowers and need to look up.