Sunday afternoon
by Melethia

Comment:
Nice diverging perspective formed by the shadows. I always like elements in the photograph which might delay the discovery of the real subject. However, here the cycling girl is really prominent and the family looks a bit secondary, at least to my eyes. Perhaps, if the girl were loooking in their direction and being looked back at, the interplay between the two centres of interest would work better for me.

My Life, My Love, My Family
by Giles

Comment:
Thomas the train, ASDA strikes back I suppose :) My boy loves that shirt. Nice portrait, I like the single light lighting. Not sure if that's a problem and didn't try myself, but a piece of foam or cardboard around the flash could have helped reducing spillage of light on your backdrop.
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Ok, now I know it's a softbox and a small gobo would have not helped, my bad :)

Share this with him
by tonywan

Comment:
I like the candlelight and the expression, but I am a bit uncertain about the mood of the photograph. Whether it might be depicting a sad situation or else.

Unity in diversity
by vamudha

Comment:
Nice idea and pretty original in this challenge. I am a bit unsure about the strong color cast. In a sense it makes me for a more realistic feeling, but even common household lamps are not this warm to the human eye.
I remember seeing somewhere a similar concept, but with tiny plates in front of the canisters/bottles and filled with their content. With the right illumination that made for a pretty pleasant picture.

"Say Cheese!"
by dtallakson

Comment:
I find the postprocessing a bit too contrasty, at least on my monitor. Perhaps a tighter crop, exclusing the lady ont he right and a bit of the top, would have helped leading the eye from the photographer to the family.

Family Tree
by alexlky

Comment:
I like this. Imposing in their apparent fragility. Perhaps I would have liked it better with the light coming from the front and the long shadows extending from the trunks. But that would have been a different shot entirely, I suppose.

Brothers
by Neat

Comment:
Very natural, non stiff, group portrait. I love the completely different expressions on the siblings' faces, it seems to say something about their different personalities. And love the fact that the young one is looking so joyfully elsewhere, which suggests that the rest of the family is not far away and somewhat part of the picture too. Good job!

epilogue
by jmritz

Comment:
Perhaps they'll sit there again all together, one day.

Alyssa Lies
by MinsoPhoto

Comment:
Ok, after much pondering, I bump this to 10.
I find the subject matter particularly disturbing, but angle, framing and pose are just right. And that's a sad, pretty realistic, slice of reality.
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Kick in the guts image for this challenge. Very disturbing. 8

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by MinsoPhoto

Comment:
Good one, this works really well.