Waiting for Playtime
by whydidhe

Comment:
good idea. would have scored this much higher with better lighting. 5.

Y
by Gnarf

Comment:
this is so high key (at least on my monitor) that you can hardly make out any detail, making it difficult to evaluate your use of shallow dof. the tree (twig?) in the upper left stands out not because of shallow dof, but because it is the only (slightly) lower key element in the frame except for the shadow in the extreme foreground. sorry - 3.

Pleurotus Ostreatus
by JimyThing

Comment:
meets the challenge, but I don't like the composition. the subject (at least at this angle), would seem to lend itself for to a macro or close shot than a shallow dof shot. sorry - 4.

Small bodies, big hearts
by redpanda

Comment:
dof is shallow, but the kids would have popped out even more if the dof was greater, and you had zoomed (or stood) in closer. sorry - 5.

Trym
by erl89end

Comment:
nice candid capture. should have made this bigger. i like the vingetting, but the background feels like it is out of focus because of being blown out on the exposure and perhaps camera shake rather than a deliberate use of shallow dof. whatever is cutting through the upper left of the frame is also very distracting. sorry - 5.

Train:)
by romi

Comment:
because the front of the train is turned toward the camera, the in focus area takes up too little of the picture--my eye keeps getting drawn back to the rest of the train, which is frustratingly out of focus. if the train had been going all in one line, so that the engine was at an angle to the camera, I think this would have worked better. lighting is a flat as well. sorry - 4.

Extra coat
by tomcat

Comment:
nice expression and a pretty good use of natural light. would have been a better picture (imho) if you had got in closer to the face to make it more like a portrait.

A plastic break
by shoggy

Comment:
looking at this on my second time through and am bumping this up to a 7. composition and colors are nice and dof is used well. it does feel a little heavy to the left side and the lighting, while not bad, seems a little dull.

Flameshadow
by Jacques123

Comment:
meets the challenge and is nice composition, but the exposure is too dark and the light feels flat on my monitor. sorry - 5.

Do Re Mi
by greslizzz

Comment:
i think i see where you were going, but i think the composition needs work