How souls play basketball
by kryta

Comment:
This is an interesting attempt with decent color and good black to white balance that meets the challenge in a different way from many. General image quality is good. The net result, however, is a "busy" image that appears more like a random error than a purposeful effect. The area in the bottom middle part of the image needs something of interest to better balance the picture. Viewers, like me, will have no idea what is in the lower left corner and will find that to be a distraction.

A great picture has everything carefully planned and thought out and controlled and there are zero distractions. Nothing is included that does not directly support whatever the photographer wants the viewer to get from the image. The old 198os movie, "Back to the Future", is a great example of this concept. No matter how many times you watch it you will always discover more and more tie-ins from one part of the movie to another. There isn't a single thing that happens in that movie that does not tie into later action. That is how good photographs should be to.

without title
by thorgils

Comment:
Generally speaking, painting with light involves taking a long timed exposure with the subject in complete darkness and the photographer uses a mobile light source to illuminate the subject from different angles and directions in ways that generally cannot be done with stadard lighting. Yours does not look like it was done in this way and some voters will fault you for it.

untitled
by kateasanov

Comment:
The basic concept of this image is very good. The greenish color gives it a "night vision" look. Yours was a valient attempt at the challenge and is proper light painting technique, unlike many, many others.

I tried something similar, though in standard colors, but could not get the light painting the way I wanted it so did not enter. Mine was of a heart shaped pillow given to open heart surgery patients and signed by well wishers. I wanted to light paint to simulate the escape of the human soul should the patient not survive. I just could not get light patterns that "worked". Your image suffers in the same way as mine where the light painted over your attractive model's left eye is more of a distraction than anything else. You got the technique down but this implementation, like mine was, comes up a little short.

Blue Light Special on Yo-Yos
by rhenderson52501

Comment:
Generally speaking, painting with light involves taking a long timed exposure with the subject in complete darkness and the photographer uses a mobile light source to illuminate the subject from different angles and directions in ways that generally cannot be done with stadard lighting. Yours does not look like it was done in this way and some voters will fault you for it. The shadow does not add much to the composition and being cut off at the top is a viewer distraction.

Generally speaking, painting with light involves taking a long timed exposure with the subject in complete darkness and the photographer uses a mobile light source to illuminate the subject from different angles and directions in ways that generally cannot be done with stadard lighting. Yours does not look like it was done in this way and some voters will fault you for it.

LEAVES IN BLUE
by DAWAR

Comment:
Composition and subject matter fine. The flat purplish color is so unnatural that it will act as a distraction to a lot of voters. Sharper focus on the fine leaf detail might make this image more appealing. Generally speaking, painting with light involves taking a long timed exposure with the subject in complete darkness and the photographer uses a mobile light source to illuminate the subject from different angles and directions in ways that generally cannot be done with stadard lighting. Yours does not look like it was done in this way and some voters will fault you for it.

Fashion Princess
by ADGibson

Comment:
Aaron... Congrats on a great shot and deserving high finish... Like the black and dark haired model against the solid white background. Great expression capture, wonderful skin tones. VERY high fashion.

Summer Lubber
by rox_rox

Comment:
Excellent, excellent macro!

The Corrosive Touch of Time
by DrAchoo

Comment:
Congratulations... nice shot of the Peter Iredale, Oregon's most famous and enduring shipwreck! Reminds me of home.

fungi
by galaxy310

Comment:

Originally posted by pix-are: Horrible JPEG compression. Great pic though. However, the poor compression lowered my score. 3

Agree it is a nice image, disagree about there being jpeg compression artifacts. Not a one I can see. Good color and interesting foliage framing of the mushroom.

Restrained Romance
by angela_packard

Comment:
Interesting image and decently well done but many viewers will have trouble relating it to romance. However, tt would do great in the "bondage" challenge. ;)