life.....it's all about friends
by larimarie

Comment:
Good subjects but its ironic that all the dogs are looking up while one of the children is looking down and one is looking away. Good ambient light but if this was cropped a little closer on both sides and the top the odd shadows wouldn't be as noticable around the plants.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by BobsterLobster

Comment:
I like the color and the silhouettes of the birds but I think it would have been more moving to only see one bird. I like the clouds slightly below the horizontal middle. The lens flare works in this composition. 6

On Gossamer Wings..
by moodville

Comment:
I see an artistic attempt. The heart and wings are creative and the textured background works well with the basket's frame and the smooth, featureless wings. I don't like the objects (straw, twigs, ???) at the bottom of the composition. The lighting is good but without a little fill light from the left, the shadow of the basket wire obscures the left-most wing.

I'm Ready for my Closeup...
by BobsterLobster

Comment:
Great shot, Bobster. Well deserved ribbon.

Smily Eyes
by Jacko

Comment:
Congrats, Jacko. Even with a new boy here you are showing us all how to do it.

Good job and great photo.

fuzzy face
by chalcone

Comment:
Great subject. Nice depth of field. Wish you could caught the wings extended to add more area covered by the insect.

All wrapped up!
by visitor

Comment:
Depth of field is a little shallow so that the mummified insect is OOF but good shot of the spider. I'm sure you're gonna be tired of the it's not an insect comments so maybe this'll help - 7 (I woulda liked a slightly different angle to show more of the spider's face

Thinking outside the box
by e301

Comment:
Creative interpretation, good focus and good depth of field. Good soft lighting with such a light background, too. High marks for technical merit - 8

All Terrain
by crabappl3

Comment:
I think this either needs to be brightened or have the saturation punched up. Good depth of field.

Freedom of speech
by kostia

Comment:
Good composition. I like the angled interpretation but I wish the books were at more of a diagonal as the 1984 title almost reads correctly. I think rotating the image clockwise might help to maintain the accent that is normally created visually by presenting the image at an angle. The lights glaring off Catcher In The Rye (I assume) and off Lolita are a little distracting and I doubt you could have done much to compensate for that is post shot processing. Perhaps a polarizing filter or a diffused light source would have helped that effect. 7