Katherine
by EvanH

Comment:
I like the composition, the expression, and this is nicely painted. It does strike me as a little blurry, which -- while surely only natural for a human subject, and not very badly so -- still ends up being a bit distracting to me. Still gets a 7 from me, though. A tad of cropping off the top might have even gotten it to an 8.

50's Pearls in The Dark
by Krisby

Comment:
IMHO, this is much nicer with a fair bit of the top section cropped off. I like the lighting a lot, though.

Make Your Own Way There
by xXxscarletxXx

Comment:
I'm very curious to see how this was done, given that it's been validated, yet looks so very much outside the basic editing norms. Just extreme use of curves??

Anyway, cool shot.

Low Rise
by Keith Maniac

Comment:
Very nicely done.

Fall
by arnit

Comment:
I think I'd like this even better if the camera was moved just a little to the left (or the subject to her left, and our right). And that's coming from the standpoint of really liking this image. An optimistic 9 from me.

At last, it´s broken
by Structor

Comment:
I believe this doesn't follow the "already broken" part of the challenge description, but I think this image is worth it. That must have been some tough egg! ;-)

Baby Blue
by lindes

Comment:

Originally posted by sumeetpuri: how can you say its a baby blue??

Well, why should I not? It's a baby's eye (the kid in question is 6 months old), and it's blue.

I tinted the overall image towards blue a tad, too, which may have been a mistake, I don't know... some have commented that they didn't like the skin tones.

*shrug*, live and learn, I guess. :-)

I did have some closer shots of her eye, and that had been the intention originally, but I thought this shot captured a double ententre, as she looks a little "blue" (as in sad) there, to me -- though I don't think she actually was.

Anyway, thanks to those who left feedback. Thanks even more to/if anybody's reading this. ;-)

Lemon Drop
by Rikki

Comment:
exquisite shot! congratulations!

Enquiring minds do want to know, though, to borrow the phrasing of a previous poster: "what are the orbs?"

???? I must know! :-)

Again, congrats. A very worthy image.

Pensive
by sajin

Comment:
Wow, very nice capture of this man. I would suggest cropping a little off the top, and a fair bit (maybe 1/4 of the image) off the left (leaving a little space around his head, but cropping off a bunch of his shoulder), to frame his face more in the upper-left of the frame, for even more impact... and that's on a shot that I found pretty impactful to start with. :-)

Alas, the (lack of) cropping I'm finding to be more distracting than I'd like... With it, I think this image would be at least a 9, and maybe even a 10 for me. without it, I'm struggling... I want to give it an 8, because it's such a nice capture of a moment, but I find it just doesn't quite sit well with me, and so I think I'll have to give it a 7.

D P C
by Beetle

Comment:
lovely interpretation, nicely done shot.