Always happy to serve you...
by redpanda

Comment:
Service with a smile...Great find on this bathroom smiley. Composition is great but some technicals suffer. This has great potential to move up into the high above average category - mayhap even the exceptional. One problem is the depth of field (DOF). The toilet roll eyes are OOF (out of focus). Placing your camera on a steady surface or tripod you can then use a greater F-stop (maybe 8 or higher) along with a slower shutter speed to let in enough light to illuminate the subject. The greater F-stop will give you a greater DOF so that the eyes will be in sharp focus too. Lighting is a bit uneven. The left hand side is illuminated fine but the right side has deep shadows making the smile look uneven. Even using a small desk lamp brought in to sit on that side could/would even out the lighting. Lastly the crop may be a tiny bit tooo tight on the smile - pulling back or cropping a little less on the bottom portion will show off a touch more of the smile and reenforce the imagery of this being a toilet....although thinking that over more I'm not sure you want to make it that strong:-)

The Lobby
by h2

Comment:
Not a true smile or frown but very creative use of objects to create a face! I see this 'table' face as an aloof guy just leaning back on the wall and puffing away at his ciggie. Photo is technically excellent in color tones, lighting and composition. I have to be honest with you, I am docking a few points because of the no true smile or frown - still it remains in the above average category - 7.

oh boy!... FOOOD!
by FocusPoint

Comment:
While not a true smile or frown I gotta give you applause for the level of creativity here. The title is what helps enforce the idea of a happy staple gun fish finding some small fry staples in the ocean. Love the addition of the green yarn kelp for it helps add to the illusion of this being a seascape scene. Lighting is also very good for all objects are well illuminated without any deep or harsh shadows. Very creative!

Plug Incognito
by Senay

Comment:
I hear the Mission impossible as Johnny Socket dons a disguise to put a plug into the leaky crime circuits:-)

Simple and clean composition. Lighting is good but the dark color tones especially that of the cream yellow hue don't have any eye-popping contrasts like a white wall socket would on that dark backdrop. Not much one can do with the exception of selecting it and then upping the brightness/contrast to punch the contrast up a bit. But that might be a bit much for just 'finding' the right object with a face. I wondering if a vertical crop would have been better to complement the shape of the wall socket. Now that I am looking at it more I am seeing Dirk Dastardly type in that socket and the striped backdrop is invoking an idea that this a vaudeville type short where the villian with the stache straps the lady to the train tracks. Or I might be seeing way too much into this:-) Creative composition and well done, but I wish the contrasts were greater and that the mouth had more of a smile or frown. Still it earns a 7.

What's up?
by peter

Comment:
Let me guess - alternate title was 'How's it hanging?";-P I can't help but but think of that funny Budweiser commercial years ago What's Up? ... they even stick their tongues out when saying it:-)

Lighting, composition, and details are all sharp and extremely well done. Composition also found creative use of an everyday (kid's wise that is) object to make a face - and a rather eh-hem, provocative smiling face it is too;-P

Spinach in his Teeth
by Lydia

Comment:
I have enough trouble looking at things right side up to see faces but you turn things upside down to get us to see into a topsy-turvy world:-) Very creative work that uses the whole room to make the smiling face! Love how the chairs act as the eyebrows or eyelashes (whichever way you want to look at it) for the circular eyes of the clock and the oval picture. BW was most definatly the best choice to go with for the (most likely opposing) colors of all teh objects would have been distracting. The smiling face is much more recognizable this way. Not to keen on the title, but I can see what you are alluding to with the teeth as the window panes and the foliage outside as the 'food' stuck on the teeth.

I Love Cheese ...
by Keith_W

Comment:
The opposite of Oscar the Grouch - Grady the Grater sings, "I looovvvve cheese, whether its sliced, or grated or cubed. Soft-ripened, blue-veined, or processed, I looooooovvvveee cheese!"

Um, yeah, boy that was cheesy:-) Okay, great find - love the smiling expression on this cheese grater. Composition and clarity is wonderful. Lighting is good but I wish that deep shadow behind was not so evident. Moving the grater further away from the backdrop would have avoided it casting the shadow on the 'wall'. Nonetheless it is not too distracting that it draws away from the main subject. Great job!

Shower-Happy
by vikas

Comment:
April was nice and clean - with a hint of May flowers as she broke into a smile and reached for the towel:-)

Wow, look at the image details from the red towel to the water drops seen on the white walls and the chrome smile. Love the addition of the red towel for it brings color to what would otherwise be a stark image composed of just silver and whites. Plus it adds to the personification of the shower "person" finishing up and getting ready to towel off. Great work here!

Beach Day
by JaimeVinas

Comment:
Life's a beach when you have a bucketful of fun:-) Nice use of leading lines that draws our eye to the vanishing point off into the horizon. As we 'walk' there with our eyes, we spy this shovels and sand pail to grab as we stroll down the the beach. The handle smile on the bucket invokes a sense of a happy play day. My only plaint with this face is that it *could* be stronger - some may have trouble seeing the eyes and smile at first glance. A nose would have made the emphasis of the face stronger - perhaps a small sifter or very small rake hanging over the side to serve as a nose would have worked. Still very creative image and well done - 8

Mr. Coffee
by Brent_S

Comment:
That's not a coffee pot...that is pure grinning evil!:-) The downward 'v' curveture of the 'eyes' and that grin makes the coffee pot look downright evil and up to no good. Ekk! Almost makes one want to avoid going to the kitchen to get the morning coffee. Very creative use of reflections!