Alone with my Thoughts
by ordinaryangel

Comment:
The Jaggies and lack of a firm focus really hurt this picture. The focus seems to be at the subject's feet. Being closer and with a wider angle my have helped that. Also If your camera supports it, single spot focus is a useful tool. You can get the same off center effect by half pressing the button while on the subject, and then shifting your angle. The subject will stay in focus, but wont be in the center of the frame. The jaggies would have been helped by using the full 200K file limit for the challenge.

dame nature
by takinou42

Comment:
Over sharpened, over compressed and over adjusted. You had 110K more that you could have used to add detail back in.

UGH! Not ANOTHER Flower Shot on an Overcast, Windy Day!
by ralfw

Comment:
The in focus flow half in the frame lost me on this one. maybe changing your angle, or pulling the other bloom out of the fram would have helped.

Farmhouse, est. 1730
by RulerZigzag

Comment:
just too much in this one. I would have taken the choice of loosing the foreground pile, and the sign as well and concentrated on the building. The path is nice, but it leads you to the sign, not the house. I am attracted to the bright object in the center of the wall, but there is no detail there. Looking at the blank wall makes my eyes splash off to the sides as well.
Converting to Grayscale reduced the distraction somewhat, but shooing into the sun clobbered most of the detail on your side of the objects.

Island Girl
by staab

Comment:
Doesn't look at all happy to be where she is, and before this shot she is totally bored. When working with a model you need to pay attention to their reaction, because it can either make, or in this example, break your picture.

Kidnapped
by smardaz

Comment:
Taken by the passenger in the front seat, at least I hope the driver was concentrating on driving. Getting the focus was good, but given the scenario you set up with the title the person wouldn't be sitting up in the back seat.

Pond Gliding
by cheegirl

Comment:
There is mostly good detail, you had another 50K of file size available to reduce any artifacts. the swan is going somewhere with a purpose, note the bow wake it is leaving. The swan is pretty much heading right at you so the crop didn't do anything for the picture.

Maasai Child
by bucket

Comment:
This is the last photo that I'm commenting on in this challenge. Mostly because I managed to wade though all of them. It is a good choice of DOF, but I wish his face wasn't so scrunched up trying to smile. It would work better if he was more relaxed. if perhaps you could have had the parent in the background as part of the picture that might have relaxed the subject more. The more I look at it, it almost seems a grimace.

Inevitable Discovery
by Imagineer

Comment:
what do you expect if you give him a shirt like that.

Goblets
by Shmee

Comment:
looks like a small chunk of alkaseltzer in each one. It is a nice effect, as is lighting angle. The rotation being off is messing with me. You know that most photo programs allow fractional degrees of rotation right? This probably needs to go .25-.50 ccw to be straight. Then you wouldn't get the tipping feeling while looking at it.