My Angel
by luckyluciano

Comment by bvy:
The light in the hair is a bit hot. Overall, it's warm and honest and very nice in black and white.

sculpt
by luckyluciano

Comment by snaffles:
What...this is a SCULPTURE?! Holy hand grenade, woman, is your sister ever talented! I was completely fooled. What medium(s) does she work in? And good work too on such a lifelike capture :-)

My Angel
by luckyluciano

Comment by JuliBoc:
She looks sick or depressed. Very interesting moody portrait.

My Angel
by luckyluciano

Comment by onepurplerose:
What a beautiful child! His eyes are captivating.

Waves of Sping
by luckyluciano

Comment by Paul:
Greetings from the Critique Club:

Well done for entering your first image on DPC! I see you have a second image submitted to, so you're on your way.

As for this image, I agree with your commenters (and you) that the image is soft to a problematical extent. I do like the light though, especially the way in which it adds an edging effect to the leaf. I also like your choice of aspect ratio too - it works well.

It terms of meeting the challenge - I'm not sure that this is the best match; I suppose I had expectations that the subject would stand out from the background as a consequence of its colour. Here, the constant colour across the frame has the opposite effect - though I do concede that excellent edging provides some much need contrast.

Overall, I quite like the idea behind the image although I think your already know the execution isn't quite there.

I'll be interested to see how you do with the next submission.

Best of luck

Paul

Waves of Sping
by luckyluciano

Comment by luckyluciano:
Thank you to everyone who voted.. I do realize the leaf is "soft" but when I took this photo I was actually focusing on the leaf infront of this one and only really noticed this leaf after it was in my computer... this was my first entry and this was alot of fun! Cant wait to participate again! Yay! FUN!

Waves of Sping
by luckyluciano

Comment by hernan43:
Too soft for me.

Waves of Sping
by luckyluciano

Comment by Bill666:
I really like this...if only the leaf was sharper.