Real Tea
by adine

Comment by mci:
i'm not sure about your decision to make this image titled to the right. it seems off balance. i love the textures in the dark areas at the top, with the handle and lid. the rest maybe has too direct light on it and isn't allowing some of the nice textures and contours to highlight themselves. the ground here in the lower left also really detracts from this image. 5.

Real Tea
by adine

Comment by sher:
beautiful shot! the lighting is wonderful. good work!

Real Tea
by adine

Comment by tfarrell23:
meets the challenge...

Real Tea
by adine

Comment by dacrazyrn:
great detail in the lit areas. and then fading back. one of my favs 8

Real Tea
by adine

Comment by TerryGee:
interesting composition....

Real Tea
by adine

Comment by dsidwell:
I like how the tea pot fades to blackness. Nice warm feel to this. 9

Real Tea
by adine

Comment by StevePax:
Dramatic. I like it.

Real Tea
by adine

Comment by Gordon:
the final glint on the far right really makes this work for me.

Making the Cut
by adine

Comment by qachyk:
I gather you were going for the whole 'pink slip' thing but honestly a pink sheet of paper with "Layoff Notice" typed on it seems to be, I don't know... wrong. I'm not sure I get the scissors thing (even with the title). Conceptually a bit too abstract in general for me I suppose.

Magic Flute
by adine

Comment by RiderGal:
Greetings from the critique club

This is REALLY COOL! I like it a lot. I didn't pay enough attention to this when I was rating photos during the challenge but the details in this are awesome! Not sure if you could have.. but it might have been kind of cool to turn the flute around... and get a part of someones face with lips playing the flute and the smoke coming out, but this is really cool on it's own.

I like your composition a lot... just beautiful... the way the bottom right hand corner is all black, really lovely... and the incense really filled up the rest of the photo beautifully.

I love your use of sepia here... really gives it a mystic old time feel. and as Frisca said in her comments, the contrast is very nice as well. Also very glad you decided to put it on the black background, it really makes the flute and the smoke pop out.

In terms of the challenge I think you met it very well. In fact I can't get the chirpy flute sound out of my head right now I actually think you should have placed higher than 12th but I guess some people don't have the imagination that it's in fact "magic" and playing itself. It's a shame sometimes the literal ways people judge on this site, but it's not about placing it's about making a picture that your happy with.

I think this photo would be absolutely beautiful for a flutist to have on their wall, I do hope you offer it as a print. It looks like one I would enjoy giving to my best friend for her wall. The one thing I would touch up on for the print is the bottom left hand corner... i think you got a little bit of the arm in there? Or maybe I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the photo.

Overall this is a gorgeous photo, and something I might like to try... GREAT IDEA! Looking at some of your other work it's very dreamy cool stuff. Nice job! Good luck in the future, oh, and did I mention... offer this as a print!

-Talya