my love has become an affliction
by elmomarie

Comment:
Unfortunately, you got so close to the subject that everything on the body but the hand becomes an abstraction of humanity. You have to leave enough of the subject in to make a visual and emotional connection. At the very least the mouth should be here, preferably with smeared lipstick to add to the story.

I'm not saying that I don't like this, I do. The comments you received were all from pretty accomplished photographers, people who have been examining these things for a long time. You have pleased the artists, the abstract thinkers.

Unfortunately to please the crowd, you have to take your artistry and distill it into a club and beat them over the head with it. ;)

Chained
by JeniY

Comment:
I have to agree with the other commenters, well composed and well captured do not always an interesting picture make. The worst flaw is that she looks bored. Boredom only looks interesting in counterpoint to something in the picture that the viewer should NOT be bored at, and then you have to over-act it a bit, kind of a dramatic boredom.

Of course, this could have been your point, but the psyche of western culture is so ingrained in the thought of being chained only being a very bad thing (or a sado-masochistic adventure) that the look just doesn't make sense.

Circle of Friends
by Structor

Comment:
I think the only thing that hurt you here was the strange texture of the skin, like you over-used neat image or something. I would LOVE to see how this looks without that one flaw. Unfortunately it's so pervasive and distracting that it otherwise ruined it. I didn't vote, but in answer to Sandy's question: I believe they were thinking just that. "Dammit, killed a great picture."

The yellow thing in the middle has meaning to you, but it's not obvious enough to most people (confirmed by other commenters) to really work. At first glance it completes the the composition, then it becomes a distraction because of confusion.

Message edited by author 2007-04-16 11:23:33.

karissa07.jpg
by nomad469

Comment:
I like the background lighting, leads the eyes nicely. Only nitpick is that the chair, instead of being a useful part of the composition, is just sitting there doing nothing. I'd say have her interact with any object or get rid of it as a distraction.

karissa06.jpg
by nomad469

Comment:
I'm thinking her face is pointed a bit to up and too the left. It looks like she's skeptical of me, where I think you might have been going for "I'm checking you out"

When resizing for web, you should run a pass of USM on low setting. If she's sharp full-size, she's not here.

Bass Harbor Head Light
by Tranquil

Comment:
needs some lens correction to straighten out the lighthouse, but otherwise this is great

Universal
by Cutter

Comment:
This would KILL in contre-jour.

The Return of Cool
by RKT

Comment:
argh! so close, great shot.

Lower Falls III
by sacredspirit

Comment:
I love lower yellowstone falls, next time I go back I hope to get to Artists point at sunrise.

Gavroche
by TOY

Comment:
chimneysweep?