Balance "red ribbon" 18th July inspired by instep -- Henry Foster
by RUEDISCHMUTZ

Comment:
Pretty good, though there seems less fill light than the original. As a more or less straight copy I don't find it that interesting (nor did I think that of the original, really), but such was the challenge you have to get decent points.

Broken Love
by Gauti

Comment:
Nicely executed, though I'm surprised by your decision to shoot the book upside down - it's good work, obviously, but just doesn't quite do that extra thing for me, even with the broken thing.

Red and White (Remie #4621)
by docpjv

Comment:
In amny senses this is a wild improvement on the original, which actually suffers from big technical problems. What you don't have, for me, is the big bright punchy over-exposed feeling (good thing? bad thing? don't know), and this to my eye suffers a bit for that - in a way it's too realistic this, rather than having the disgned edge of the original. As a variation - well, the set-up itself is so very designed, that I'm not certain of the benefits of this approach.

A Tasty DPC Ribbon Served Up On Chopsticks
by neesa108

Comment:
Nice idea. I think it needs the high contrast feel of the original, and the massive sense of detail in that shot to really make the impact. This ishowever plainly a tribute, and reasonably effective - it's just that background colour which doesn't have the stylish impact of the original.

High Security 2 - or the uncontrolable evolution of technology
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Love the detail, the tonality, which is almost worthy of the master, I feel you haven't quite achieved that strong sense of the compositional uses of shapes that JJ has.

Visual Poetry
by Nonage

Comment:
Without going back to the orignal, and whilst this is a fine copy of that image, I feel that the fade to white is too sudden here - whether I felt that about the orignal I don't recall. Nicely done.

Driven
by bpickard

Comment:
Is this about editing or photography? I can't decide, for myself. The base photo is OK, but it's difficult to say that the impact of the shot is not primarily down to that motion blurring - and why doesn't it affect the radiator grill, and the badge, and the headlamps ... sorry, I don't like it.

Stop Whining
by Philos

Comment:
Almost lovely, and almost wonderful execution - it would be faultless without having taken the sharpening quite as far as it has been. Proper high-key work, solid composition. Dramatic certainly, but in terms of substance ... I'm not sure.

Limited Warranty
by sparkly

Comment:
Great colour, strong composition. It lacks something for me - just that edge of real shape from light perhaps. Nice work.

My Country Tis of Thee
by MJENNI

Comment:
Broken colouration too, is that it? A technically fine shot, although I have a resistance to the subject matter which won't cost you anything - but I have a stronger resistance to the wacky colouring: it makes the flag an unfamiliar thing, and yet your title suggests that it should be an immediately familiar one. Maybe the impression of confusion is one you wanted to sow, but to my mind it is incoherent.