Deep in thought...
by Nowaytotell

Comment by jeannybeany:
Beautiful... sweet and innocent!

Deep in thought...
by Nowaytotell

Comment by aKiwi:
This could be a great image with better lighting. I love the use of the flowers & the extra accent in the hair. The On camera flash creates a horrible shadow and makes a very flat image. Get your flash off your camera, or fire it onto a white wall to reflect the light back onto the model from the side. in this case the best lighting would be to the right as that is the way the face is looking. The colours also look very flat in this image. Beautiful model by the way.

Deep in thought...
by Nowaytotell

Comment by Azrifel:
The background is very distracting here. Also moving your model (a lot) further away from the background (and maybe putting a light on it) can help against the hard shadows underneath the arms. Also don't like the bluepurple hue of the image. Sorry.

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by Nowaytotell

Comment by talj:
Great to see you :o)

Innocence
by Nowaytotell

Comment by talj:
Looks like you have a beautiful dog!!:o) I think maybe positioning his paws in the lower left corner and the back end in the top right corner would have been a more interesting composition :o) You have captured some lovely detail but with the Best of Challenge there was a certain amount of WOW factor needed in the shots and unfortunately I think this is what is lacking here....this is just my opinion :o)

Curls Galore
by Nowaytotell

Comment by talj:
Looks like you have a great subject here! For me the lighting on the face is way too harsh and I am not sure I like the orientation. Maybe this would have been better with the girl in portrait format rather than horizontal? :o)

I hate fixing fence.....
by Nowaytotell

Comment by talj:
Possibly a little more thought about composition would have helped you here. If you had gone over to the fence and taken a shot looking along it this may have been interesting, varying your depth of field could have added even more interest and most of all this would have meant you didnt have so much of the blown out sky :o)

Twins
by Nowaytotell

Comment by talj:
Well you have achieved the centered composition but for me this image has no real interest. Finding an interesting subject is not always easy but you need to give the viewer something that really draws the eye in :o)

The newspaper business is pressing
by Nowaytotell

Comment by talj:
A really interesting piece of machinery! I think you could have done so much more with this. Just a couple of ideas would be a different angle rather than straight on and maybe converting it to sepia to give it an old feel would have worked nicely :o)

Brown in the basement
by Nowaytotell

Comment by talj:
I see what you were trying to capture here, there is nice browns in the wood but unfortunately unless you are Bear Musics friend Jim the subject is quite boring. Maybe concentrating on an interesting piece of the wood and focusing on that whilst having the background out of focus would have helped this shot (just my humble opinion) :o)