vii - matched seven
by nicolep

Comment:
Nice idea. I'd have burned only one of the sticks. The black tops just don't look good. You might have removed the head which fell off the third from the left. Taking the matches as lightsource would have given a more dramatic look.

Seven Gifts For Under The Tree
by birdyblue

Comment:
The gifts in the background are too important to be out of focus. The golden pack might be closer the others, that would have taken some of that empty space in the middle.

Very mice to meet you
by _wu_

Comment:
Did it occur to you to take the shot from behind the mice? They would e in the foreground, and the cat's face, dominant, in the background.

Iron Guards
by rkligman

Comment:
Too much contrast. There's a blue halo around the horizontal line. The noise between the blue and the white area is no good. I guess you took the shot from below and wanted the fence to stick out against the blue background. Changing levels might have been more useful than pushing the contrast. 2. Sorry.

Lucky they were only shot with a Canon
by eggv

Comment:
The deers did exactly what they are supposed to do in real life: blend with the background. They are barely perceptible because it's brown on brown. And they're too small. You might have waited for them to be in a more compact constellation, which would have allowed a tighter crop and thus, larger animals. A more narrow DOF might have helped as well.

sketch a rainbow
by colda

Comment:
I'd have liked to see a brighter background and a tighter crop. You might have used new pencils, the scratches on these take some of the harmony.

Forks
by jessfrolio

Comment:
I don't like the forks' composition. I'd have preferred either something more regular (a circle perhaps) or more chaotic, with their heads looking into completely different directions. They blend with their own shadows (lower right). 4.

Seven peppers in a fall
by edc1

Comment:
Hot! I love chilli! I have to admit I can't figure out the setup for sure. No matter how you did it, it looks as if you had just thrown the chillis into the air. If you did not, I'd have arranged them in a more homogenuous (uh, spelling? :) way. Some noise there, but that doesn't matter. I like the contrast between the hot chillis and the cold autumn/winter day (bare trees).

Seven Wise Guys
by woodsey

Comment:
Cute. You might have put them on a tree.

Don't You Dare!
by gloda

Comment:
Thank you for the many comments! I'm a bit surprised that they are all, in one way or the other, positive. I expected, at a score so close to 5.0, some more people critisizing me. Now I don't know what to change about it.
The blue tone some of you mentioned was wanted indeed. I like blue and it gives it a modern and cold look. Some people asked what I was suggesting. Actually, the image's message is whatever you see in it. I'm not saying whether authority is good or bad. It's just there and it's up to you to judge.
The only thing I'd change now is the blur on the hands. It was not wanted at all, but it was quite diffucult to hold my hands still after 50 shots :). And I'd have liked to clone out a small dot in the upper right I had forgotten to remove.
I'm glad to have gotten the attention of a SC, though. And thanks to kpriest for getting the point and suggesting me for disqualification ;]
(Edit: typos)

Message edited by author 2004-12-02 12:29:23.