Five Photos

[DutchHerp]

I honestly have no suggestions, i love those pictures! I think they are better when they arent all fancied up...animals are beautiful as is, and a little sharpening goes a long way Great job, i hope you win!

These are fancied up.

Later, Matt

[Patrick Long]

Got any suggestions?

Later, Matt

Maybe lighten around the eye area, to draw in more focus there.

Thats really all i got for you, not much else I can suggest LOL

[Denial]

I think they all look great

[twistedtails]

I think they all look great

x2

[Neal]

I like #5, my only suggestion would be to make it a tad bit smaller, and put a border on it.

[fire-eyes]

Slick stuff! I particularly like #5. They all leap out of the monitor.

I have no idea of your skills or knowledge, so I apologize if you already know these things or don't like them.

Consider placing the most interesting portions of the pictures on or along some lines, the first being the rule of thirds: http://digital-photography-school.com/rule-of-thirds

Then there is a more advanced, and highly controversial (just search some forums), the diagonal rule: http://www.picture-thoughts.com/phot...osition/angle/

Where "most interesting" in this case, in my opinion is the eyeballs. So you'd place one right on one of these lines, or best of all, where two of them intersect. In particular, the diagonal rule is EXTREMELY picky. If you perfectly line up an object perfectly on its center right on a line or intersection, you may find the image gains this extra punch to it. It's difficult to explain. But if it's off by just a few pixels, that feeling is gone.

Definitely some things to check out. Some image editing software can overlay grids, unfortunately a diagonal grid is rather rare.

[wilomn]

Not bad Kid, not bad at all.