Pomegranate flowers
by MrAkamai

Comment by peete:
its not hard to get your main subject in dead center... this is centerED, but not dead center.

Pomegranate flowers
by MrAkamai

Comment by Olyuzi:
Good composition that I don't believe meets the challenge theme and appears to suffer from distracting highlights and motion blur.

Pomegranate flowers
by MrAkamai

Comment by skief:
The dead center of the photo is the negative space in the middle without flowers.

Fire extinguisher
by MrAkamai

Comment by MrAkamai:
Thanks to everyone who voted on my entry. I'd like to address some issues that were raised.

1. The distortion that some people mentioned is (most likely) barrel distortion which is a serious issue with the 717.

2. This was taken straight on but the camera was tilted on its side on a tripod.

3. The text on the extinguisher label is small and this was taken at a distance of approximately 20 feet.

4. The border color is not actually pink but a sampled color off either the extingisher or the red background, I can't remember. Then I set opacity to 30%. On my screen it looks red so maybe color space or gamma is different on others' monitors. That's the only explanation I can come up with at the moment.

People seemed about 50/50 on the darkness I gave this photo. I chose to darken a bit because the texture just wasn't there with the default levels. I think if I left levels as is, people would comment that it was overexposed. I used all natural light and the light was actually green since the skylight above the area has green glass. This was taken around 5pm which explains the length and intensity of the shadows.

I really enjoyed reading all the comments everyone left and thanks again! :)

Fire extinguisher
by MrAkamai

Comment by waterlilies:
There's a journalistic starkness to this photo. My first impression was that it was sort of dull and without focus, but on second thought, I like the contrast of the bright red on white background and the subtle shading in the top corner and around the fire extinguisher.

Fire extinguisher
by MrAkamai

Comment by banmorn:
too far right. th bricks need a little perspective adjustment on the left. the frame is really not a good color at all..red might have been OK (NONE IS BETTER pass the word) but this rose pink was not a good choice.

Fire extinguisher
by MrAkamai

Comment by t_online:
i like the off-center composition ... good focus, light and texture, too - 7

Fire extinguisher
by MrAkamai

Comment by heida:
I think this picture is very arty, in a good way ofcourse :) Great off center composition and color and lightning look very good too, Good job :)

Fire extinguisher
by MrAkamai

Comment by fstopopen:
great play with the shadows.

Fire extinguisher
by MrAkamai

Comment by geewhy:
One of those simple but very effective images..which means it`s been done right !!
The lighting is all important in this type of work and I think you have got it perfect.
Compositionally, I might have tried bringing the extinguisher in towards the centre ..just a touch..but that`s being trivial and will assume that you tried that and it looks better this way ?
Well done