Week 2
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Comment by Maggye:
I love your portfolio, Sophia's pictures are lovely... I know what you meant about the way newborns sleep, my five weeks old daughter sleeps when she wants to.... no when I need her to :(

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Comment by MaxFinger:
Great commercial eye and technique

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Comment by jmsetzler:
Greetings from the Critique Club...

This challenge is one that was rather easy to meet, so that aspect doesn't play a significant role in the results. A score of 5.69 is a little better than the 5.37 average of this challenge.

From my personal perspective, I love images that put shape and texture into the forefront of the composition. Your image does that rather well obviously due to the choice of subject. I also tend to like high contrast images, but this one seems to be just a little over the top in that aspect for me. On the other hand, what this image is lacking for me is some sort of theme that provides a high level of interest for me as the viewer. There is a good story of off balance and symmetry to go along with the shapes and texture, but it's just missing something else and I can't really put my finger on it. Generally when that becomes a problem, its a simple choice of subject that comes into play.

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Comment by Yo_Spiff:
I have to admit, my senses are somewhat dulled from seeing the same kind of shots wine glass shots, but I also have to admit this is exceptionally well done.

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Comment by bob350:
Cute child. Square crop might bring more attention to the face and help remove the distracting plastic arc in left lower corner. Color balance adjustment reducing yellow-orange cast could help.

All Smiles
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Comment by dafletchr:
Great portrait! Nicely done.

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Comment by ThingFish:
Disarming portrait. Lovely.

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Comment by npasel:
Clever idea.

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Comment by dryn:
Nice image!

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Comment by denbote:
so neat! beautiful.