Siblings on the couch
by turnofthesue

Comment:
Great moment. Amazing how kids are drawn to electronics these days.

Planking
by ace flyman

Comment:
You can never go wrong with a good planking.

wassaic 05
by geinafets

Comment:
I love those bubble things. great capture.

The hair flip
by markwiley

Comment:
This is very cool. I'd try to saturate and contrast it a bit, but otherwise great timing.

IMG_5013 800
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
That is one odd looking bike, I have never seen one with different size wheels like that.

Strike!!!!!!!
by MattO

Comment:

Originally posted by K10DGuy: I didn't vote, but here's my take: In a bokeh challenge, the key is to get the bokeh to be the defining feature of the shot. You should be able to look at the photo and say, "The background elements contribute to the overall feeling of the photo". Is that what can be said about this shot? Well, not really. What defines this shot IS the frozen ball. Period. It's the whole reason the shot exists, and the whole reason for looking at the photo. It's "Wow, he got a ball frozen in time during a pitch! cool!" However, we don't even care one iota about background elements. They are secondary and provide no meaning to the photo. In a bokeh challenge, you need the BOKEH to be what's looked at and talked about. Instead, you have the ball being that primary aspect, and the ball isn't bokeh. Quite frankly, a 6.2+ is far more than this shot probably SHOULD have got, but you scored higher than I would have thought it would have placed because you did manage to wow people with the frozen action and got them to look past the fact that bokeh plays no part. So instead of looking negatively that the score might have been higher, look positively that it's actually as high as it is.

Really? You think the person who threw that ball and the person that caught that ball has nothing to with telling the story of the ball? To me the people in this photo tell the story.

Message edited by author 2011-05-04 16:40:22.

Lightheaded
by gyaban

Comment:
I'm glad everyone likes this, but it looks more like Tim Burton digital art than photography to me.

20110129-IMG_0240-Edit
by MinsoPhoto

Comment:
Very nice, although with a portrait like this I prefer a bit of light on the background so it's not totally black. I like the pose and the crop though.

Kelsey
by Neil

Comment:
On this one here I'd watch the beginning of Raccoon eyes. Your light is a bit high, or just not quite enough reflector to help fill them.

Kelsey
by Neil

Comment:
This is very nice Neil. One thing I might work on is to do a little(emphasis on little) on brightening her teeth just a touch. Also you might try to raise the shadow on the left of her face just a bit. Her eye socket in the inside is just a bit dark. One thing to consider is raising your light on that side to bring the shadow more down instead of straight over, or fill it with a reflector or another light.