Smart Cookie
by kellybrucewayne

Comment:
Technicals: 0.5/2 - flat lighting, lights are blown, focus is rather on the furniture than on the kid; slight blur around his right hand

Composition: 0/2 - uninteresting POV; tight crop. distracting background objects; slight tilt; too much perspective distorsion; awkward pose, might have been better if he had a hand in the dispenser

Challenge Relation: 2/2

Originality/Creativity: 2/2 - unusual take on the challenge

Overall Impact: 0.5/2

5

Engulfed
by RulerZigzag

Comment:
Technicals: 1/2 - good focus; noise in midtones; shadows are too dark

Composition: 1.5/2 - angles of the books lead to the reader, good distribution of light; background objects distract; soft border makes no sense to me

Challenge Relation: 1.5/2 - choice of book scould be much smarter

Originality/Creativity: 1/2 - the first idea that comes to mind

Overall Impact: 1/2

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Sax Player
by zoomzoom

Comment:
Technicals: 0.5/2 - underexposed; no clear focus point

Composition: 1/2 - interesting POV, tilt of the image inside the frame doesn't add anything; background objects distract

Challenge Relation: 0.5/2 - okay, he seems to be studying

Originality/Creativity: 1/2

Overall Impact: 1/2

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Knowledge is Power
by gloda

Comment:
Technicals: 1/2 - good focus, exposure and interesting lighting; too much motion blur in lower part of image

Composition: 1/2 - angle adds drama; crop at top is too tight,

Challenge Relation: 1.5/2 - he looks as if it was his first book

Originality/Creativity: 1.5/2 - unusual lighting

Overall Impact: 1/2

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Book Smarts: A Scholar's Study
by THEOLDGEEZER

Comment:
Technicals: 0.5/2 - flat lighting, reddish cast from wrong white balance, lack of contrast, slight overexposure

Composition: 0.5/2 - tilted, badly cropped, uninteresting POV, shower curtain distracts

Challenge Relation: 1/2

Originality/Creativity: 1.5/2 - unusual location

Overall Impact: 1/2

5 (challenge relation and originality overweighted)

Study to Stay Ahead
by Sonifo

Comment:
Technicals: 1.5/2 - sharp; good stock material. a tad too dark: greyish background, no drawing in her shirt

Composition: 1/2 - too centered; black books at left, brown books at right, all the books lying in similar directions, no titles readable

Challenge Relation: 2/2

Originality/Creativity: 0.5/2 - first idea that comes to mind, no added extras

Overall Impact: 1/2

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On the road
by Oded

Comment:
Technicals: 1.5/2 - very good exposure, every wrinkle in his clothes is visible; slight halos from sharpening; flat light

Composition: 1/2 - not the most exciting POV, too much empty space

Challenge Relation: 1/2 - person reads a book while walking - not very smart :-P

Originality/Creativity: 1.5/2 -lucky shot

Overall Impact: 1/2

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Read, Learn, Progress
by banmorn

Comment:
Technicals: 1.5/2 - good focus and DOF, light is a bit flat, text in front looks oversharp

Composition: 1/2 - too centered; tilt of the book adds drama, but otherwise makes little sense, dark corner distracts

Challenge Relation: 1.5/2 - topic implies a person to be in the image, the hint is not enough IMO

Originality/Creativity: 1/2

Overall Impact: 1/2

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on the way..
by bnilesh

Comment:
Technicals: 1.5/2 - overall reddish cast - wrong white balance; good focus and exposure

Composition: 2/2 - centered works well; I like how the book is cropped; different angles of girl, book and walls add tension; girls pose looks natural

Challenge Relation: 2/2

Originality/Creativity: 0.5/2

Overall Impact: 1/2

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Book Worm
by Photonurd

Comment:
Technicals: 1/2 - skin tone is too reddish, oversaturated

Composition: 0.5/2 - hard to believe those are the hands of the guy behind the books - distance between hands and face is too long, hands do not show the weight of the books; hands are cropped brutally.black border doesn't add anything

Challenge Relation: 2/2

Originality/Creativity: 1.5/2 - person between lots of books is the first idea that comes to mind, but you added an extra with the pose

Overall Impact: 1/2

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