Circles
by fayenet

Comment:
The first thing that really bothers me with this shot is your cropping so close to the main headlight. Compositionally it should be the strongest thing in the shot, to me: the most contrasty part of the image, the stongest shape, most defined area of frame, and yet you've almost cut some of it out with that crop. Why not let it have it's space, allow it some framing? Good high-tech quality, the refletions are effective, great sense of smoothness. Good work, other than that crop.

Silky Soft Water
by brownt

Comment:
I'd never have considered this subject apt for this challenge - and I've seen five or six so far. This is quite good, near abstract (that abstract quality applies to all these shots, and I think tis the conjunction of that and patently real world subjects that makes them so effective). It communicates more a sensation of the rush of water than of an invented texture to me, perhaps. It's a pretty enough shot though - would lookwell on a card, for sure - but mor for its painterly quality than anything else. Nice photo - for this challenge I think you'll get marked down more harshly by others than by me.

Homemade Houska - A Family Tradition
by WildflowerJoy

Comment:
Very good on texture, especially on the un-buttered bread. Looks enticing. Keeping the plastic "Butter" in shot is a weird choice perhaps, as far as a dpc entry goes anyway.

Painted landscape
by DBoy

Comment:
Very pretty shot - slightly disturbing sensation of tilt from that road and the house, though from the water it appears perfectly level - feels like the world has got a touch twisted. Great quality of light, especially on those rocks to the left, and the edge of the house - just enough highlighting to promote the subject. Lines allow good movement through the image too. A few extraneous elements have crept into the edges of frame - you could be a little harsher with your cropping without really taking much away, surely? Great feeling.

Weathered Wood
by MadMountie

Comment:
Very hard direct light has given you a very high contrast image - losing perhps some of the subtlety of varying texztures in this subject. From its position in frame, and the fact that it's almost the only thing to break that rhythm, that piece of stray grass or whatever has become the subject of this shot perhaps more than the progression of those rings. All of which is criticism - but not to mask the fact that a good quality of texture remains.

Got Milk?
by blackcanada2001

Comment:
Very competent studio shot - high-key background is perfect, detailing is perfect, lighting is pretty good, though perhaps just a touch harsh, direct. Don't get a sense of the srumbliness of the biscuit, it rather looks harder than that, which I think is a function of the harness of that main light (from the shadow, it looks like a standard shaded desk-light. Subject a mite dull though - just an Oreo, huh?

Unexpected interruption
by litbolti

Comment:
Must surely have taken some patience to get this - or else pure fluke. Could have been an interesting shot, although I think perhaps you would need to frame things differently for it to be really successful, or at least crop with a more careful eye to what is the main subject of your shot - the impression is that this isn't cropped at all.

Calla Lily
by nfessel

Comment:
Gosh, you're going to get a bunch of out-of-focus comments, I guess. There is a kind of 1920's still life photography kind of look to this, though I'd suggest it's about fading of light more than it's about texture. Your cropping lets that feel down though - excluding the top of the flower, and cutting off the other in the background: I think you'd at least score higher if you'd included both, and allowed some progression of focus within the image - this way, the rear flower looks like an accident.

Watching Television (The Scream)
by vonautsch

Comment:
Cool image, but I only see this as texture with a real stretch - even a lot of leeway won't get it there. I suppose there''s a sensation of seeing the representation of texture, but that's not really a philosophical place I want to go.

AstroBlade 5000
by Geocide

Comment:
Good. Very high-tech image, the background serves to re-infoce that. Good smoothness, and great feel in all areas. Neat work.