The English Garden - Tea Rose a "Chicago Peace"
by smshats

Comment:
Personally I do not consider magazines to be in a horizontal shape... thats just me though. Some very uneven lighting here... some of the rose looks too bright and some of it looks too dark. Maybe that was what you were going for? The shadows and part of the background are somewhat distracting, but not too bad. I'm thinking type for the magazine might go directly over the top of some of the main part of the flower.Nice job with your focus though and getting most of the flower in focus, sometimes with macro thats hard to do.

The Ecologist
by UberFish

Comment:
This is a fairly boring photo, but in some respects I guess I could see it as the front cover of a magazine titled what you have it as. it's a shame those powerlines are running through it, but that can't be helped in many parts of the world. The clouds are very nice, and I'm wondering if they would get lost in type? The photo looks slightly tilted.. but maybe thats just me.

Car and Driver....
by Dallas_TX

Comment:
Personally I do not consider magazines to be in a horizontal shape... thats just me though. A Porsche right? Beautiful blue color, very eye catching. I like the little stars of light here and there, their cute and make you look. You lose some of your nice color in the upper corners. I could see this maybe as a cover, if you had it cropped differently, but I'm not sure how that would be. Good job leaving space for the type.

Down Beat
by rhipster

Comment:
Nice... I like the warm colors this has, and your selective focus. Very nicely done... Looks like it would be a pretty good magazine cover. It's simple, straightforward, and eye catching. Good luck!

B&W Magazine (The Joys of Summer)
by Sonifo

Comment:
This is so cute! I really like it! Is there actually a magazine with that title? Just curious. I love the fact that the baby is anoynomous, we don't know who she/he is which is kind of alluring. I love the daisies all over as well! I would like to see this in color too, just to see what it looks like. Good Luck!

Canadian Gardening
by mcrael

Comment:
Very nice macro shot... well done! Very pretty and I like the shadows. This could definitely be on the front cover of a gardening magazine. Plenty of room for type... it gets your attention, bright colors, everything is very well done. Good job not puting the stamen dead center either! Very nice. Good luck!

New YorK
by jpb56ny

Comment:
This looks slightly tilted. It's a beautiufl view and reflection of the city though. For some reason, I don't really see this site in black and white... how did it look in color? I hope your one of the people coming tomorrow (Saturday) to the East Coast GTG . I could see this on an older magazine I think... prolly not one of the new glossy ones but thats just my opinion. I like the room at the top for type. Good luck.

Artist's Magazine
by Ricky Cleave

Comment:
Wow! Those two are quite talented... I like this photo... it shows "local" art which is kind of fun. I'm not sure where you would put the type on the magazine... but I guess you could ddo a top or bottom border? I think I would have liked brighter colors maybe... Great composition here... everything keeps you in the photo.

Sports Car Illustrated
by autool

Comment:
I'm salivating. What a beautiful car! I love Alfa-Romeo's (have a dog originally named after the car (Romeo) full name of the car, but now we have Juliet too ;-) ) This picture is nice, but the front part is kind of distracting... it's hard not to get reflections in the car... but some of the reflections are just too bothersome. Nice cropping though! I love to do cars! See my triptych . Good luck!

Magic Flute
by adine

Comment:
Greetings from the critique club

This is REALLY COOL! I like it a lot. I didn't pay enough attention to this when I was rating photos during the challenge but the details in this are awesome! Not sure if you could have.. but it might have been kind of cool to turn the flute around... and get a part of someones face with lips playing the flute and the smoke coming out, but this is really cool on it's own.

I like your composition a lot... just beautiful... the way the bottom right hand corner is all black, really lovely... and the incense really filled up the rest of the photo beautifully.

I love your use of sepia here... really gives it a mystic old time feel. and as Frisca said in her comments, the contrast is very nice as well. Also very glad you decided to put it on the black background, it really makes the flute and the smoke pop out.

In terms of the challenge I think you met it very well. In fact I can't get the chirpy flute sound out of my head right now I actually think you should have placed higher than 12th but I guess some people don't have the imagination that it's in fact "magic" and playing itself. It's a shame sometimes the literal ways people judge on this site, but it's not about placing it's about making a picture that your happy with.

I think this photo would be absolutely beautiful for a flutist to have on their wall, I do hope you offer it as a print. It looks like one I would enjoy giving to my best friend for her wall. The one thing I would touch up on for the print is the bottom left hand corner... i think you got a little bit of the arm in there? Or maybe I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the photo.

Overall this is a gorgeous photo, and something I might like to try... GREAT IDEA! Looking at some of your other work it's very dreamy cool stuff. Nice job! Good luck in the future, oh, and did I mention... offer this as a print!

-Talya