Fence to Nowhere
by dhare

Comment:
Nice approach to the challenge - and kind of works. Fence is a touch too insignificant in the image though: perhaps if you'd been able to make more of it's shadow ... Good perspective work, no lens distortion that registers with me, and that helps carry of the regularity of the composition very well. 6

Untitled
by oksamit

Comment:
Excellent smoothness and clarity to this macro work. Tooo much of a shoe-in to the theme for me however - sure, as a pair they're arguably centred, though equally validly, as individuals, they're nicely (almost) on the classic thirds lines. Composition could have been simplified to good effect i think - bin the coloured egg-cup, white-out the wood and there'd be a suitably scandinavian feel to this. 4

Technicolor
by Jesuispeure

Comment:
Don't like this I fear. Quite apart from the over-the-top colouring (obfiously, only my opinion), it seems slightly over-exposed (details blowing out in the more saturated areas), and the direct light isn't helping communicate the softness of the flower - which would make a real contrast with the bizarre tones. 4

fly away with me
by mamabear5612

Comment:
The blat of that flash is real pity -- murdering the detail in foreground. I guess it would have been near-impossible without it, but that doesn't stop it causing problems. Would it have been impossible to crop in tighter on the hand and the butterfly? Might have made for a much less snap-shot-like composition.

Cicada Emerging From His Shell
by insteps

Comment:
Excellent detail - man he loks like a plastic toy - and great light, especially the rich green of the background. suitably regular and symmetrical subject to carry the composition (unlike so many who've just plonked something dead centre without a thought). Hope it does well - has an oddness that I like. 7

Here's looking at you, kid!
by dsa157

Comment:
Nice high-key work, DOF effective, the light perhaps just a shade too even on the little critter to give much sense of texture and fine detail. Difficult subject though - especially if (s)he's alive. Think I'd have worked just a little more on taking the background tho white - still some blue noise visible in areas. Close though. 6

The Guardian
by Beagleboy

Comment:
Something givess the impression of being astray here - it seeems tilted, but it isn't when you look closely - I guess just not taken from directly head on. This does highlight a problem with this challenge though - to me, a centred composition absolutely requires a strong graphical element to an image, which this has with those curved shadows and pointing lines - but those graphical elements have to be very regular. Good detail here, though that direct light has lost you some element of texture and perhaps mystery from the scene. 6

seven
by slonko

Comment:
Having gone to the trouble of making that asymettrical border, it might have been an idea to use levels just to take the black in the image all the way to absolute black. Good detail and light, especially the fading away toward edges. One of the better flower portraits here. 6

On Any Windy Sunday
by jimmythefish

Comment:
Gentle halo-ing around the subject is effective in drawing and keeping the eye there, cntred composition used efffectively for once: isolating from background, and illustrating the height of this jump. Good work. 6

Lost Childhood
by Neuferland

Comment:
Difficult balance to achieve between concentration on this old pushchair and a suitable sense of isolation. Seems like quite a lot of sharpening has gone on - has that brittle, fine pixelation. I quite like the shot, but it isn't completely getting through to me. 5