GEEWHY'S YELLOW
by TLL061

Comment:
Intriguing idea, and I don't see that leaving the door itself still coloured fits the process ... after all, Gordon didn't keep his window frames coloured ... I don't think. It's not, i think, strng enough compositionally of itself, this image, and the challenge connection will take a number of folks more work to find than they're going to be willing to put in.

Pianissimo Encore [Soft Focus, Yellow Ribbon]
by dipaulk

Comment:
Has the effect, but the bloom itself lacks the sheer density of variation in petals that Setz's shot had. A worthy effort though.

A Toasty Tribute
by alanfreed

Comment:
I beleieve bod used a blue flourescent tube to light his original, and i think this sufferes in comparison mainly because of the blue part of the light. The important thing about that, for me, was the balance of the internal and external light in the shot, and the use of a tube light meant that he was able to get those elongated reflections in the surface of the toaster, which is unfortunately a missing element from this shot: and its remarkable the impact that small a detail makes.

Defining Feature - EYES
by megryan

Comment:
I'm no fan of pet shots particularly, but this, given the challenge and your chosen source ... I have no idea what to think. I think I like it - both the shot itself, which has the mournful put-upon-ness of a pet when they're being messed about with, and a nicely subversive realtionship to the original and all it's many 'close companion pieces'

Cardinal Bracing Against the Storm (National Geographic Challenge - Drake - 1/12-18/2004)
by Judith Polakoff

Comment:
Either the most enormous luck, or the most enormous patience :-) Have you used a sharpening brush around the crest, and the eyes/beak area? The way that little grainy patches have emerged is a pity. For the same impact you'd need more snowflakes passing - but that really is taking the copying idea too far - but my point is that 'bracing aginst the snow storm' isn't communicated here as well as in the original. Hope that doesn't sound harsh judgement, but you have set yourself a very hard task here.

Vase
by GinaRothfels

Comment:
Myy first thought is 'which shot is this based on?' There have been so many shots of refractions through glass that it's difficult to retain them all in mind, I find. The bobbly bits down the edge ring a bell, vaguely, I think. Anyhow, good shooting - control of sharpness is i think the key to such a very graphic image, especially with such hard edges between black and white.

[no] Angel
by redmoon

Comment:
Fabulous. Subversive, silly, appropriate, and plain daft all at once. I wonder if, given the model, you mightn't have just kept the noise of the sky under more control - I think to have such a silly image (in the best sense) reproduced at the highest quality would be ideal. But great thinking.

In Praise of E301 Spoon
by Coley

Comment:
Ha! Oh man, I have absolutely no idea how to vote on this, at all. It's a quite extraordinary feeling to see this, I can tell you - in a godd way, I assure you. I hope you'll PM me about how you set it up. As to an assessment of it ...

The one thing you've achieved here that is the kind of thing I was after in the orignal is the mad graduation of light across the curve of the spoon itself, just where the handle meets the bowl of it. Outside of that, it has a genuine simplicity that I like, but perhaps not the intensity of focus and closeness. The original is actually in a sense not lit at all - it is all reflections, rather than light falling directly on the subject - this seems directly lit, to me. Thankyou for it though, and I score you a 7.

Highlited X-Ray Frames (office art+multi-image)
by MrYu

Comment:
Pretty good imitation, even, it appears to my eye, down to processing. Can't quite see how you get the background colours and the plain white image in the water, and also your background image hasn't the strength of organisation of the original.

Tribute to "Gotta light?" by Kiwiness
by nicklevy

Comment:
I'm not sure the additional matches does much for this - the impact of Kiwi's shot, as so often with his work, is the absolutely perfect technicality, and simplicity, and sense of perseverence that you get from his photos. Not a bad image at all, by any means, but ... well, you're tkaing on a master at this sort of thing, aren't you?