Rose
by GinaRothfels

Comment by lauralink:
Ruined a good thing -- very negative, perhaps too much.

Rose
by GinaRothfels

Comment by LalliSig:
Sorry but compared to some other flower shots in the challenge this is very average so I gave it a 5.

Rose
by GinaRothfels

Comment by Kivet:
unfortunatly the petals turned too dark here, most of the detail is lost and it kind of becomes a blob. The un-opened ones turned out very well i think though.

China Doll
by GinaRothfels

Comment by puzzled:
This is one of my favorites so far (rated 157 so far). Everything about it is exquisite - the coloring, lighting, beautiful doll, and the simplicity. Good job!

China Doll
by GinaRothfels

Comment by Dave Nalesnik:
I really like the composition here, and the use of the reflective surface. The picture seems underexposed, though, and the young lady could benefit from a little styling...fixing up those stray hairs would really improve the image IMO.

China Doll
by GinaRothfels

Comment by dcano:
I dont usually like photographs of toys etc. Hoever this one works for me. I think it is the color and the very Dali like reflection. The messed up hair is perfection.
dc

China Doll
by GinaRothfels

Comment by bjoern:
Nice effect with the mirror.

China Doll
by GinaRothfels

Comment by Altamiro:
Too dark - you should have lighted up with a flash.

China Doll
by GinaRothfels

Comment by Count:
I like this shot but the lighting is a little to dark for me...

Untitled
by GinaRothfels

Comment by e301:
from the underneath of the Critique Club

SO: compositionally strong - that heavy diagonal works well as a concept to hang the image on, but evidently not meeting the voters idea of what was required here. I think perhaps that might be a simple function of the scale of your shot: most if not all of the successful images depended on texture being apparent on both the fine and the grand scale: so the detail works, as well as the overall structure of the image (one might phrase this as saying that the shot worked as thumbnail as well as in full). This just doesn't really communicate on the finer scale, I think; at least, no more than it doesn on the larger. The progression and patterns of reflected light in those hollows are possibly too untidy, not clean and smooth ewnough to enhance the metallic nature of the whole.

That's only a suggestion, but evidently something put folks off this one. The colouration may have hindered things too - I can see a feeling that it might have removed some sense of tonality, or rather imposed its own sense of tonality onto the shot, rather than letting things come through. perhaps, in the end, it was just too close to the abstract (well, absolutely close to my eye), and the voters actually wanted to know exactly what texture they were looking at? Who can tell sometimes ...

Some more info from yourself might have helped make sense of things though.