The World In His Eyes
by tbangert

Comment:
Fantastic. This is a great capture. Excellently framed up with great depth of field. The reflection was either exceptionally well planned or one heck of a great lucky break. :-) Trying to get any animal to work with you to get a shot like this is difficult and you should be commended greatly on a fantastic shot.

Mummified
by moonwell

Comment:
Fantastic with the eyes. Great light, great angle to present them at, and a great idea with the white mummy strips to really set them off as well. A couple of nitpicky things. The top white strip actually leads my eye right to some eyebrow hair that wants to come poking out. Also the bottom crop cuts it just a bit close to the bottom lid. I am sure there were some compelling reasons to crop it that way, so both of those are pretty minimal and don't really impact my score at all, but I always love getting other sets of eyes comments on my shots so figure I will try to do what I always hope for in comments.

intensity
by amjlt

Comment:
I like the way the high key lighting mixes with the intense eyes to really hook the viewer. The intensity in the eyes is just very well done. I am sure you will get lots of comments about the hair being in the eye. For some that will be a welcome thing, and for some it will be a detractor. For me it takes away from the eye, but not enough to mess up a good shot. The only other area that I want to briefly touch on is the bottom right which looks to have some fairly serious JPG artifacts going on. Specifically it looks pretty noisy. My best guess is this is just a bi-product of the post processing. Basic editing and full adjustments rather than selective will sometimes do that. I love the idea and creativity and thank you for entering a very nice shot!

Eclipse
by Chinarosepetal

Comment:
Wow, that is really all there is for me on this one. I will undoubtedly be back to see how this one was done. Macro is all that is coming to mind because I don't see any noise artifacts I would expect with a multiple enlargement. Ok, back to the shot. Great color obviously, and well controlled light. I would have liked to see more of the top of the yellow, but no reason to quibble on such a nice shot. Great job.

You have my Attention!
by stargazer05766

Comment:
You have to love those eyes. Great job with focus and also keeping good distance from the dog to keep long snout from becoming largely distorted in the frame. I like the nice and even lighting in what appears to be a dark indoor scene otherwise. My only concern is the framing/composition. The crop in the middle of the ears can feel a bit uncomfortable, and I think if the dogs face were centered a bit more it would really take this shot to a different level. That being said it is difficult to get any dog let alone a big dog to cooperate so great shot and one I am sure you will enjoy for years to come.

Raw Emotion
by LMA128

Comment:
I love the way you framed this up. Focus is spot on, and you captured the emotion very well. Great use of light in a very difficult area with basic editing. You are to be commended great shot.

Windows to the soul
by rapid

Comment:
Wow, very nice pop in the eyes with the lighting. The overall lighting looks uneven on the face and that is probably my biggest concern, but I think you did a very nice job of trying to light up those eyes.

untiled
by nycpawnpusher

Comment:
Great catch lights in the eyes and focus is spot on. I might have liked the composition more with less negative space on the left side, but still is a very nice shot and think you did a great job with the shot.

Wicket-01.jpg
by jan_vdw

Comment:
Fantastic timing on this one. I really like how close to the action you were able to get on this one. Best cricket shot I have seen in quite some time! We don't get nearly enough of these on this side of the pond. :)

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by jan_vdw

Comment:
As promised here to make some comments! I really like this one auto shooting is a task I do not envy you as the speed, and action can be really difficult to shoot. The only thing I have on this one would be to crop up to eliminate the yellow barrier in the foreground. A great capture! Well done!