Flower Girl
by gwendy

Comment:
You don't want to know just how many of my personal pet hates you've managed to get into this one photograph - I'm afraid, just about everything about this. Obvously technically competent, but this really hits all the alarm bells for me; I'll try to be good and not knock you just for producing something I don't like ... 6

Strawberry
by Sammie

Comment:
Reminds me slightly of my first ever challenge entry here, all those months ago. I wonder how it's scoring - mine bombed ;-) Nicely and simply done, all the technical elements well executed ... but it's difficult to get more excited about it: really is, just a strawberry.

The Gift
by manic35

Comment:
Love the halo of brown from the wood around the box. Quite like the trick of it all, but find it lacking a certiain dynamic - not sure exactly what - perhaps its just that your prinarly point of interest is actually a white nothing: even with that haze/smoke, just doesn't quite carry the sense of mystery for me. Really nice attempt though, and certainly works for the challenge.

Blue Eyes
by Nazgul

Comment:
Great lighting - very nicely executed. Strong use of the compositional restrictions of this format too, and fine detail and all the rest is there. I would wish the eye reflections of your big softlight weren';t directly over her pupils - gives the weirest sense of her being blind to me - eyes need that depth of black in the pupil to carry their message, and only the slightest change of angle would move that reflection to somewhere more appealing. I'll be intrigued to see how far that affects your score - how far people really notice, and how far people subconsciously notice.

Profile
by naomik

Comment:
Very nice - both black and white seems slight overkill in your framing, I think. For the image itself, the colour repro seems excellent, and the detailing is strong and well executed. I like how we see a patch of real flesh, and the mess of the pancake make-up. Fun shot, and well done indeed.

Petals
by Bud

Comment:
Whilst the purple shade is well reproduced, the yellow of the stamens looks dull and flattenend. Works fairly well for the crop, but not particularly strong composition; perhaps the light is just too ambient, lacking any sense of direction and therefore not helping to communicate shape and texture much.

Kangana
by jpeters

Comment:
Has a certain strangth of dynamism and evident movement, though it feels constricted by the square crop requirement - it feels rather that you've forced the image into the format than that the image itself needed to be presented in this way. The flash seems too direct also - takes away much sense of depth from the photo.

.:xx:.
by visaksen

Comment:
Red is so tricky in internet land - just doesn't reproduce well: there's such a fine line between saturation and clipping, and there's always noise. That just adds a strange element to a strange enough photograph already; not sure what I make of it really.

Portrait of a artist
by djonson

Comment:
Technicaly pretty assured, though i would have the flash far softer a light than this - its produced heavy strange shadows, and some glare on her forehead and around the eye: I'm not asking for over the top airbrush flattery, but just a smoother, more realistic light. Love the situation though, neatly seen and shot.

Red Hair Day
by gsal

Comment:
Quite fun. Good detail, great light, competent framing and so on. Selective de-sat always bothers me, I'm never quite sure why. Perhaps not taking the de- side of things to the full extreme might be more impactful without my feeling that my attention is being forced onto the hair when it would be there anyway? Not sure - I get the impact, sure, and I almost see the point, but I don't like the level of - well, manipulation - it feels like I'm being subjected to.