Leather Belt
by bil99

Comment:
Lighting seems a bit too head-on to really emphasise the texture. Some feeling of rough/smooth with those edges and surfaces survives, however. Perfectly well in focus, but seems to lack that edge of detail - processing? camera? don't know...

Contrasts
by Rgarcia

Comment:
There's a 1970's low-contrast feel to this - quite interesting. Certainly captured the texture of the outside, but the pearl and the inside of the shell seem to have been relegated to almost an insignificant detail. Composition doesn't work for me - perhaps because of the tight crop on the left of the shell and leaving the right side open.

Pinapple
by siggi

Comment:
Very white highlights - give a plastic feel. Perhaps a softer light would reduce that. Some detail missing, just lacking that edge of sharpness. Kind of 'ugly' to do well here, but nice idea.

money with lots of texture
by nottogood

Comment:
Interesting approach - quality of image has let this down a touch, as that detail that would really show the texture has disappeared. You have kept some tactile quality though, which is good.

Baby. It's cold outside.
by pcody

Comment:
Near perfect exposure, in my eyes. There is something about the composition, and it certainly is black. 7 for now.

waiting to let go....
by theodor38

Comment:
Mad strange hilarious fantastic image. I'll come nack to it later ...

Great Miami River- Hamilton
by Crafty Sue

Comment:
I like the high-key, but your framing and composition of this image make that seem like an accident. For me, you shoudl have placed the horizon higher in frame, and shown more of the foreground - that would provide balance between the two land-masses, and reduce the top of frame negative space (which seems to add very little in terms of impact).

Adrift in a Shallow Field of Snow
by mariomel

Comment:
Marvellous image - PS'd to highlight the benches, or a genuine moment of light? Just curious: either way this scores very high. Reminiscent of something, or rather of someone's work ... though I'd have to look that up. Top photo - reallly really good. And best inchallnge from me.

Unwinding bun
by MarieW

Comment:
Like this. Reminds me of some mid-victorian photography, that posed and very masked sexuality some of that era's work had. As a study of the sensuality of a neck it's pretty effective. The downside is that the title you've given it really doesn't match the image - that unwinding hair is so much darker than the face and neck - I really have to brighten my monitor to see it clearly. An additional touch of top-light, or even another rear left might have generated some shine on the hair to give more emphasis to it. nevertheless, 7.

Ouch!
by zerocusa

Comment:
Wonderful photojournalism shot - the 'technical errors', the blurring and the exposure help enormously. The bead of sweat about to fall from his nose is a masterful touch to capture. The subject is perhaps the diametric opposite of the challenge title, but that would be churlish grounds on which to mark this down. I hope not too many people have.