Golden Hybrid Iris
by digifotojo

Comment:
This is a great shot in my opinion and certainly meets the letter and spirit of the challenge. Great color saturation and focus control. Very nice!

Shake Things Up
by Moose408

Comment:
Interesting shot, good stop action. The background is interesting... rear lit?

Ducks Enjoy Flying
by lear202bt

Comment:
Great shot. You caught have the duck and its splash beautifully placed and rendered. It is too bad you lost the left wing's feather tips.

Beautiful, Confident, Deadly
by jprezant

Comment:
Beautiful? Yes! Confident? probably... Deadly, who knows.

Great shot. Nicely lit. The work area is a bit dirty, but overall it is very good.

At Church
by bcoble

Comment:
A very beautiful and sad picture.

I love the models' placements, both the models' eyes being thirds intersections. I expect it is typical, but unfortunate, that the "mother" is paying more attention to something up and forward than she is to child.

I seems to me the shot has a blue cast and Photoshop also suggests one, although I have recently noted more blue color casts than I would have expected from this site. I will have to check my monitor again.

All in all, a very nice shot.

Erin
by wavelength

Comment:
I was just browsing the portraits and came across your photo. It is a beautiful shot of a lovely lady. Wonderful focus control. If I were to make a suggestion for possible improvement is that there seems to have a blue color cast, although that may just be a matter of monitor color balance matching.

I don't think a tighter crop to hide her would improve this photo at all; her face is so lovely it draws the focus from everything else. A tighter crop would simply product an alternate lovely shot.

spy versus spy
by claudia26

Comment:
What a great idea using the old 5x7 (8 x 10?) as a prop. Beautiful lady, great set up, wonderful lighting. My only observations are that a portion of the camera bellows got lost in the background and the tripod legs reflections overwhelm the texture.

Had I been there at the time, I would have given this shot a 9 or 10.

Autumn's Enchantress
by Myrkva

Comment:
Another home run. I don't know how you could go wrong with a model this lovely. Is this the same model as on the rocks?

Great focus and depth of field control. I like how you have her looking over her shoulder into frame. I like people looking into frame, but that is just a personal preference. All in all, a great shot. I would have given it and 8 or 9.

divine freedom
by saintaugust

Comment:
Somehow I missed this photo when it was new, perhaps it was posted before I joined. I wanted to add my highest compliments for this shot. Perhaps rain clouds do come with silver linings. It is too late to vote, but accept my belated 10.

Self Portrait
by RamblinR

Comment:
Great shot. Beautiful lighting and resulting skin tone in the B&W. I love the perplexed sort of look on your face.