Skeletal Uprising
by alternarule

Comment:
Cunning, but not cunning enough? Given the light source you've shown us, I'm intrigued as to how the left side of that skull is more brightly lit than the right. But whatever. I do think,. however,m that you have the basis of a nice shot here - only there's perhaps too much shadow, really, and your placing of that light source in frame is uncomfortable - not the fact that it's there, but that it interrupts the lines of the skeleton so much, rather than seeming remote from it, like illumination should be - alongside the head like this, it looks like something you just couldn't get out of frame, which carries an implication of laziness, rather than of artistic choice. Had you placed that light top right, and even reduced the size of the skeleton part of the image, which would have allowed you to brighten it a touch more, make it a touch less violently high-contrast, I think you'd generate more of an impression of the bones actually being lit by that light.

Glow
by BeeCee

Comment:
The highlights certainly give a sense of shininess, but are perhaps too disparate to make for a clean enough image to suit the simplicity of the composition, making for a visual paradox which detracts from the impact of this image. This kind of abstraction was never up my street, so I may not be your best judge, but I think it at least needs a stronger sense of texture, otherwise it may as well be simple design.

Tulips
by kari1

Comment:
Intriguing; very strong graphically, although i wonder about the black border - useful at the top of frame, perhaps, but the un-exoected cut-off at the bottom is perhaps more intrusive than i think you intended. There's also a graininess - a very fine graininness, but nevertheless present - which to my eye doesn't quite fit with the highly-controlled set-up here. It might just be a black--point theshold thing - the descent into pure black from the mid-tones seems very sudden, looking carefully at the stems of the blooms, and that makes the tonal graduations of the more shaded areas of the flowers lack that sense of smoothness.

Scotch
by spydr

Comment:
A simple photograph of a bottle of whisky - I don't understand why this is ever going to be very interesting. Those blue and red reflections speak obviously of ambient light in a room, and suggest another light source than that bright glare on the lower part of the bottle, so arguably this doesn't even fit the challenge instruction. I'm sorry to be harsh, but I don't even see what you thought the apeal of this image might be.

Defined Elegance
by radioeffect

Comment:
Almost a beautifully exposed image - well, it may well actually be, but you've allowed so much negative space that the full area of interest of the image is reduced to a very small dimension. There is certainly something to be said for some bretahing-space in the framing of any object, but that raft of black seems unneccesarily much to me - and it has a down-side: with more flower, we'd see more of what gives the impression of being a finely detailed controlled exposure, worthy of a longer look. Also, here, the real eye-catcher of the frame is that brighter, higher contrast part of the bloom, and that is, perhaps, just a touch too centre of frame? Or perhaps even just a more diagonal composition would have sat more happily - I'm just finding that composition a bit discomforting.

Images of broken light which dance before me
by Pug-H

Comment:
Well, at least you've chosen a line which hasn't cropped up twnty times through this voting process; I can't decide about this image at all: I enjoy the tonality of it, but find the glass to be too insignificant a part of it; there doesn't seem to be a real relation between the blue and the red parts of frame, but that is maybe a good point; I'm unsure.

... a man who sailed the sea
by anotherday

Comment:
Now he's the kind of bloke you want to take to a bar and get some of the stories out of him. I like this shot - you've managed to capture a certain pride there, an elegance, where I think many more simple photographres might have tried to make him seem just dirty and slightly distasteful. Fine work.

Spotlight Burst
by smilebig4me1x

Comment:
Nicely done - shows the fragility of the bloom.

Cut Flowers
by Tim

Comment:
Has the beginnings of a decent image, I think. It looks as though youv'e simply pushed the contrast quite far, when to get decently detailed black and white from digital requires more subtle work; it also has extremely shallow depth of field, leaving me unsure exactly which part of your image you consider to be the main point. The bright tips of one flower have become over-exposed, and either that depth if field or your processing hasn't left much to see in the other areas.

What's all this Noise about...."DNMC"
by ace flyman

Comment:
I like this, though the dtail level shows through the noise, and makes it sem rero-fitted, rather than integral to the shooting.