Who left the joker in the deck??
by vawendy

Comment:
Obviously the photographer. :>) Clever and truly inspired. Well done.

Is That Your Card?
by todbedy

Comment:
Heh - I love card tricks and this is a good representation. Nice crisp focus, great balanced color, creative lighting - nice job.

Time to go all in?
by Bobby-Liston

Comment:
Perfect - great detail, excellent concept, right mood lighting - well done. Should place in the top ten.

White Rabbit Red Queen
by surfinbird

Comment:
Just wondering here, but would this have worked better if the card was in color? Maybe a little closer look rather than the soft focus? Still, a worthy idea.

Motörhead
by giantmike

Comment:
Good one - clever use of guitar and Ace of Spades - fifth or sixth album? Can't remember. Anyway, I like the concept - nice although I wonder how many will get it. Side note: I bought a Squire Strat for my granddaughter and ended up modifying it with parts from a '69 Strat basket case I had hanging around. Came out nice and sounds like an early era Strat.

Arise, my future!
by KfirLevAri

Comment:
Nice concept and a nice job making it all work. For some reason, the image looks a little greenish to me, but I just color corrected my monitor so it's pretty accurate. Can't complain about anything.

Key Cards
by rhypec

Comment:
Very clever composition. Nicely composed and executed. A little sharper focus would have made it better I think - lighter contrast, but it works as it is.

Not as expected
by Giles

Comment:
How many times have we done this by accident? Solid composition, good color and action - very nice capture.

Card painter
by gpuretic

Comment:
I know somebody who makes custom cards - it is a real art form depicted nicely here. The image looks a little washed out and the colors don't have the "pop" you would normally expect for an image like this. Its also a little large - a more condensed image might have made for a better composition. Still, a worthy image and nicely executed. Well done.

Pastimes for a rainy afternoon...
by Bear_Music

Comment:
First of all, I'll admit that my eye balls are old and I wear bifocals, but for the life of me I couldn't get this image to properly focus in my minds eye. I couldn't figure it out for a while, but it is the effect of over sharpened imagery on the white cards. If you look at the top of the white cards, you see a black outline - that usually is the result of over sharpening or going crazy with the unmask control. Also at the left corner of the Ace behind the Joker card is what looks like a burn mark - that is another sign of over sharpening. A little more lighting and less sharpening would have made this at least a 9 if not a 10. I think an 8 is reasonable though because the composition is nifty and well thought out.