Kiwi Sunshine
by puya

Comment:
I had the idea of doing shot like this, and have been wanting to do one for a while. It was ashamed that I did not have a Kiwi fruits of the last day of the challenge which is when I took my picture.

I like your composition, and the way that the outer parts of the Kiwi fruit and the seeds take a ride towards the middle. Personally I would have run the picture through Neatimage in order to get rid of some of the noise, and I would have used a slightly small border.

Overall a good shot, good luck in the challenge.

Synergistic Snowflakes
by EddyG

Comment:
Nice gradiented background, good detail and crisp focus. My favourite so far in this challenge.

rain drops.........it must be rain drops!!
by seabrook

Comment:
Interesting shot, I've wanted to do one like this for a while -- but I could never think up a good subject.

I'm not convinced by the shade of blue that you've used, and I also think that you could have used more of the main subjects in focus. Good focus and good depth of field. Good composition apart from like I mentioned before that I would have preferred to see more of the in focus subject.

Round And Round We Go!
by hughletheren

Comment:
Nice composition. Good focus. Good use of lighting. Well done.Good luck.

Copper
by PaulMdx

Comment:
Nice composition. Good focus. Nice DOF. Nice lighting. I like the colourisation, nice editing. Excellent contrast too. Well done.Good luck.

Intimate Orchid
by flip89

Comment:
This is the sort of picture that I think really benefits for a symmetrical composition, so I find your choice of an asymmetrical composition quite interesting. I would also have preferred to see the entire bud in the depth of field and in good focus. Your picture is also a little bit too noisy.

You have got very nice and close to the flower however, and I am aware of how difficult it is to attain good focus and depth of field from such a vantage point.

Your picture would also benefit from being rotated clockwise a few degrees to level off the bottom of the petals and the top of the bud.

You have however attained a very lovely silky smooth white background with the petals, and that really does add to the shot.

Good luck.

River of Light
by LindaLee

Comment:
An interesting idea -- I assume that your main focus was on the colourful reflections of light? If this is the case then I am finding it a little bit difficult to pick out an exact point of focus, if I'm wrong then I guess and missed the point of the picture.

Good black background, I'm assuming you either have an expensive camera or that you edited it later on.

Good luck.

Through the Looking Glass
by agwright

Comment:
A clever shot and a good idea, well executed. Looking very British (that is if the next on the watch is the manufacturer) it is a shame that the picture is slightly noisy.

Steel Waves
by ScottK

Comment:
An interesting shot with a lot of potential and done in quite a good way. I'm impressed that you successfully managed to limit the amount of chromatic aberrations that you got.

If you could achieve it then I think that you should have attempted to get depth of field of just one knife and throw all the others out of focus. If this was impossible with your camera then maybe you should have tried to get a depth of field so that all of the knives were in focus.

I am okay with the composition that you have, but I do think that you have too much negative space at the top of your picture for a properly balanced image. Also as macro is a fantastic way of isolating just a tiny part of a larger object I was wondering whether or not you had tried a very tight crop of just the blades of the knives? I just held up a couple of pieces of paper to my screen and used one hand to get a very tight crop -- I feel that it makes the picture more interesting and makes it harder to tell what you're looking at. If you have not tried this then I really do suggest that you try it. If I did not explain that very well, then sent me the picture and I will send you back a copy of what I mean.

Good picture with a lot of potential, and well edited. Good luck.

Bonne Maman Framboises (1.6 ounce jars)
by Azrifel

Comment:
Good effort arranging the jars, good depth of field and nice focus. Good luck.