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This is a wonderful series of contrasts and framing. Nothing in the rule of thirds point we have a figure looking right at as. In the second panel we have two people away from us, and in the third we have one and a half people looking away from us. The scene is broken up with a great since of highlights, contrasts, and natural framing. This is the kind of shot that screams "casual photography" but it also screams a sense of majesty.

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The silhouette is wonderful on this, as well as the wide variety of textures that exist on the wall, blanket, light in the background, etc.

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Not a lot to say about this photograph. It's a soldier and a child – they're engaged in one another. There is this weird sense of innocence and danger associated with the image. While the weapon is pointed away from the child, it is still in the image. I highly recommend this members gallery. It is filled with excellent work.

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Excellent contrasts, maybe a little too much emphasis on them but there is also a wide range of textures on every piece of this image, from different parts of the snow to different parts of the sky… and each individual building seems to represent its own bit of texture.

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The depth of field on this image gives it more a seriously gritty feel. The one little fish head grabs out attention because it's the sharpest.  There are two other fish that have a decent clarity in the bowl and they're really staring us down. The one that seems to be free from the whole could either be a sign of freedom and power as well as the futility of such pursuits.

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Just a perfect landscape nothing really to say.

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I chose this one because of its odd depth of field, but also because of the interesting light on the ground. You can see this majestic carpet leading up to a wall of trees. It looks to me as if nature is holding a stand against this one manmade object that dares encroach about the scene.

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This image has quite a lot of tension between the figures legs and the shoes – there is a nice vantage point that seems to give more attention to the shoes, with the reflection associated with it – but beyond that bot the legs and the shoes are squarely within the depth of field.

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A dangerous, high-contrast diptych with a deeper message and a heavily ironic title.

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This image also falls squarely within the rule of thirds for being interesting. Beyond that, this image has interesting depth of field and a question associated with it. Is there something important about three o'clock?

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This is a funny bit photography that isn't so bad despite how it seems to jut up against my standard feelings of. I believe the guy noted something about his lens-size in the shot. The blurred nature of the depth of field is amazing. It matches the color so there is no real color contrast. The sharpness on the plant is the only thing that really contrasts with the rest of the picture. There is no rule of thirds, which could make the image a little better. The image is, without a doubt, beautiful but it stands against the basic tenets of photography; proving the rules don't always matter.

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Great sense of light and, as per usual, rule of thirds.

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Same thing I say about all of the photos, great depth of field and rule of thirds. There is a lot about this creepy little doll that we can really sort of examine and question. There ios an interesting texture on the skin that we can compare with the texture on the wall. About the expression on her face, just a basic doll-like expression that's on a thousand dolls, but the artist positioned it in the camera so that it looks up into the distance. We have to wonder if her excitement is justified or not.

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I didn't want to ignore standard portraiture. So this shot is a beautiful girl with a clean background and an interesting set of clothing. Great exposure, nice under exposed background, great skin tone. The image is playful without being absurdly so. Perhaps the models skin is really that smooth or the artist dumped a surface blur or Gaussian blur on top of it, this I can't say, but either way the portrait is solid.

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Inline with the portrait idea I wanted to present I found this image in our galleries. It is, without a doubt, the tightest example of depth of field in this feature. Look at the way there is a single band of clarity down his cheek on this hard and the image slowly grows more obscure was we go beyond these places. You can even see circles of confusion in the light in the background. This is wonderful. The big powerful eye that is in frame and almost in focus is squarely locked within the rule of thirds and the picture plane is almost divided in half between the obscure background and the kid's face. More importantly, though, was the decision of the photographer not to really touch this image up. He or she might have dumped to some contrast into the image, but they didn't do the smoothing blur effects I spoke of earlier.

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This image was selected from the member's gallery, despite it not being submitted in February because she won the random 1,000 point give-away. The plane is split between the surface and the headphones. The picture plane is divided almost evenly between the headphones and the table. I really dig the odd stains on the table. Just a lot of little comparative aspects to the image.