Seven Months Pregnant
by IndigoButterfly

Comment:
Congratulations!

btw, it feels like a huge black hole, the lower-right of the photo. I'd rather see you either cropping a bit off of your elbow and rotating slightly cw, or adding more negative space to the left to balance out the right side.
Good luck with the challenge!
-S.

Cratered
by scooter97

Comment:
I've tried shooting the moon in the past, and I can sure appreciate the skill and the effort necessary to come up with this one. However, I'm afraid that DPC will require more for a free study entry and score this in the high 5s range. I'll try to alleviate that by a little bit. Great job!

light - focus
by hanneke

Comment:
Light is great, love the high-key here. Focus - perfect. Shallow depth works well. However, that reflection/the shape of it/the eyes, is unnerving. I can see how you could have gotten that with two rectangular softboxes, - really, it doesn't matter how, it is weird. I'd have taken another one, or played down the vertical line in the eyes. But that's just me. Great photo, nevertheless.

You Wouldn't Understand Anyway
by oscarthepig

Comment:
I'm going to try to think about this one some more... I'll pass on scoring it until I figure out what it is. The benefit is that there are only 37 entries, so I can afford to spend more time on all of the images.

On Schedule
by kwiktor

Comment:
Hmm, stock photo - yes, definitively. Model is deserving of a 11 herself. Everything is there, plain white background allowing for text overlay, professional. I would only comment on the choice of having scantily clad young lady here: it will definitively get you DPC votes. However, I've seen a select few (maybe only 2) entries here that would sell more as stock photo, just because of the limited usability of such image in ad world. Because of that, I'll take away 2 points from 11 she deserves: 9.

IT Project Manager
by scarbrd

Comment:
A good idea to put someone in front of the ubiquitous projector in a meeting room... however I think that you would have gotten a stronger image with less details. Meaning: wider angle shot, capturing more of a business person with more of the environment. I did not need to see the specifics of the presentation, nor it serves any purpose as a generic stock photo to show a server farm topology or whatever that is...

The Happy Business Women
by Rego

Comment:
This could have been stronger if she was doing anything remotely resembling some kind of business-related activity - checking her PDA, talking on the phone etc. This is charm-based, and it has limited attraction power... I also hate that flare above her head...

Curious Business
by jean_muc

Comment:
Not amusing, not artsy, nor fancy... a perfect stock photo applicable to any number of ads. The best one so far for the challenge. 10!

It's Business
by Lydia

Comment:
This is really stocky (a real word?). I'm not sure about the unbuttoned shirt (I'm far from prude, but I don't get the intended use for this image with[out] the button).

Soon to be sealed
by BJokerud

Comment:
Nice idea, perfect stock photo theme, but execution lacks. Image seems too small (not a problem affecting the score, I just wish I could see better), but then this strong backlight does not help either... an average shot in the end.