Child's Play
by VISUALperception

Comment by buzzmom:
nice shot and subject.just way too dark for my taste

Child's Play
by VISUALperception

Comment by mikala:
caveat: i'm a beginner. that said...the noise doens't seem to add to the image but distract, very little range of light to dark, overall kind of 'blah' for me.

Child's Play
by VISUALperception

Comment by smilebig4me1x:
my goal is to comment on every photo in this challenge..heres urs..good luck. excellent comp but i think i would have rather seen this in color. i think this is all pewter or silver with a black BG would have been a great photo with some of the noise removed. ur lighting was great and the focus is perfect IMHO

Child's Play
by VISUALperception

Comment by tpoc:
Picture feels darker than I would anticipate for this photo. Like the graininess, but would have liked to see this a little bit lighter.

Praying For The Light
by VISUALperception

Comment by thomaspeople:
In spite of the apparent DPC trend to criticize any soft focus, I think it works very well here. I did notice a bit too much light just at the bottom at her wrist. Of course, take a grain of salt with you as you look at my profile... :)
Beautiful picture

Praying For The Light
by VISUALperception

Comment by yeoua:
The light doesn't seem to help the photo too much, being just there. Perhaps a better position would help. The noise might be a bit much and the frame around the picture is not exactly sized the same on each side.

Praying For The Light
by VISUALperception

Comment by colourBlind:
Good composition here. I find the shadow behind the girl a bit distracting, but that may have been an artistic decision on your part to have it included. It definitely adds to the light/dark duality present in the image.

Praying For The Light
by VISUALperception

Comment by Artifacts:
The idea is right but you need to give the viewer a reason for why your subject is pryaing. It has to be more than just for it to change from physical darkmnes to physical light. You leave to much to the imagination of the viewer. The grainy and soft focus approach does not give the viewer enough reason to maintain interest in the compostion. It is intersting that the shadow profile is the sharpest part of the image. It may have special meaning but a viewer could not tell what that might be.

Praying For The Light
by VISUALperception

Comment by Xilebo:
A little too grainy but a nice composition...

Praying For The Light
by VISUALperception

Comment by cardmaverick:
This would proably look better as a black and white. Really noisy color digital images don't look very pretty, the grain is not really just grain, but almost like randomly colored pixels, zoom in on it, you'll see what I mean, you don't have to worry about that when its a black and white.