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Comment by Paul:
I am participating in the "Why a '5' not a '6'?" commenting activity (see recent forum thread). Viewers are asked to leave a comment with some of their votes of '5' letting the photographer know why, for them, it fell short of a vote of '6'. If you have found this comment useful, you may wish to offer some of your own to those images where you vote 5.

This photo is clearly well executed and does a good job at meeting the challenge. However, I think it does lack depth and the intrinsic interest level of matches isn't that high. I do like the way you've used the border as a shelf though.

Overall, there's certainly nothing wrong with this image, I think you've made a fine job of it; it's just that the final result doesn't leave me with anything.

It has to be said though, this isn't the most inspiring challenge. In fact my average score given in this challenge is much less than 5.

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Comment by bassbone:
nicely photographed - the placement of the flame, the progression of those that burned out, the apparent randomness of the heights all work well. And I think the border here, especially the white lines, really add to the image. Very nice work.

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Comment by LMGU83:
Beautiful and creative.

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Comment by Neat:
I would say this is in the running to win a ribbon.

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Comment by librodo:
though i like he model and the composition is okay, i feel the skin should have been more glowing and the contrast and texture in the veil can be enhanced. 6/10

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Comment by David Ey:
One of a dozen excellent shots....10 Good luck.
My pick for first.

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Comment by jazul02:
beautiful portrait... playing with the colors and adding a little sharpness could help..:)

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Comment by ecmguy:
This is a beautiful woman you snapped. You need a little more work on the lighting.

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Comment by JonoTucker:
nice photo.maybe would have not had the hair in front of eye regardless good shot

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Comment by roaldo:
I dislike the reflection of the light, but overall, this is the best!