Every morning
by Bolti

Comment:
Don't you get soap all over your t-shirt? ;-) I like this - there's a pure ordinariness about it, a refusal to pander to the ideas of DPC's clean set-up photography; and also a sense - because of that lack of pandering, probably - of the genuinely real. I like the crowdedness of this space too - it feels, with the collections of bottles, the precarious towel stack, like a real person's bathroom. And for all that, it's plainly obvious that this must actually be a set-up idea. I like those paradoxes, and the result.

Hour 23 of the 24 Hour Shift - Making Mother's Day Bouquets -
by pointandshoot

Comment:
The balance of the flowers and the bloke is pretty well done here. Nice image, and I'm glad that the floral element hasn't been allowed to over-dominate.

Modern Day Marlborough Man
by Pedro

Comment:
Fine portrait, with good detail and tonality - the conversion is pretty well done, perhaps the very extreme highlights only causing problems. Good light too. Is the rope alone enough to speak of environment? On balance, I think it is.

Another Day in Paradise
by Herblacklist12

Comment:
There's a certain quality of direct-flash domestic photography that is quite intriguing.

Part Inspector
by edmeng

Comment:
Nice portrait; the washed-out quality of the equipment is strange though, especially in a challenge that seems to require the interaction with the subject's environment.

This Is My Life
by Judi

Comment:
I wish you'd softened your flash just a little, which would have reduced or negated that shadow across his forehead. Fill-flash is absolutely right here, fo course - allowing you to make use of the natural contrast of that heavy sunlight.

Unsung Hero our Firemen
by sherpet

Comment:
Strong sense of character here, which is good. There's a sense, around his face, of some over-processing: the detail there seems rather created than naturally captured - some areas seem slightly blurred together, but that could of course just be compression to get the file size down.

Housebuilder
by TUBORG

Comment:
He needs to be looking at that nail, rather than the camera, surely, or his next portrait will be in x-ray form. It's also a bizarre way to hold a hammer in the first place. Like the details, but not the processing.

back to the old house
by colda

Comment:
Nicely done - especially your framing. I get a sense of dissociation between the figure and the background that is a little unsettling - it's simply the depth of field, of course, but it has the effect of making her surroundings feel simply like a backdrop perhaps, rather than a world she is involved in; her berlin 1930's make-up set aginst the nicely ordered georgian architecture perhaps adds to that feeling too. A nice piece of work however, and that point is more interesting than troubling.

A Farm Girl and her Dog
by 3eyedcrow

Comment:
Pretty good, but your dodging and burning are not exactly subtlely done, and to my eye make the image just look like it has dark blotches across it. I don't think you've taken the highlights far enough really - the tonality seems really quite grey to me. More contrast throughout the two figures would really add a sense of depth to it, and more detail, and there is certainly room for that without blowing the highlights.