Corporate responsibility & employement , Petrolchemical plants & leukemia
by mcaldo

Comment:
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I love this picture, its bautiful. However, I don't think it really does your title justice (or should that be your title doesn't do the picture justice?). Yes, I can see the, I assume, petrochemical plant if I look carefully, but for this assignment I would have brought this much more into the viewer's eye (i.e either different lense and/or different crop). I am not sure how this picture depicts "leucemia" in any stretch of the imagination, nor employment. I understand that you are trying to make a socio-ecological statement, I just don't think this image is able to pull all these things together. Again, as a "photograph" I love it -as it is, especially the monochromatic, but I don't think you really worked the challenge with this image.

Wine And Cheese
by BrianR

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I like your choice of items and the stylised way you chose to portray them. I llike your color combination. However, I feel the "wine" aspect is overpowering and the cheese looks almost like an afterthought.
The fact that you put together different objects taken with different lighting makes the entire image somewhat unsettled to me. It also sems that you photoshopped the same bottle, just smaller at an angle for the pouring one and edited the "pouring" part in. That in itself is fine, but for me it should be less obvious and with more finess so that an observer does not pick it up that easily.

Grains Weevil
by alexlky

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Fun interpretation (unless you have to put up with them that is :-)). I would have perhaps just cropped a little more off the height of the image resultin in the weevil being more on the 3rd rather than the centre. Although IMO the wevil is very well lit, the rice grains are not and they are in fact hard to make out, which is a shame. Although the image works for me because it really shows off the weevil, for the sake of the challenge, IMO, both items should have been prominent

Bird & Branch
by HarveyG

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a nice take on the theme. What a great photograph - when i grow up I want to take pictures like this :-). I like the colour combination - both subjects (branch and bird) really stand out from te background. Nice composition. Only negative I can find is that the left side of the branch is slightly out of focus

Santa's Favorite.
by indiejojoba

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Nice interpretation of the theme. I feel the whole picture is a little lopsided. I want to grab the glass to stop it from sliding off the table :-). Since the main subject of the photo are the cookies AND the milk, perhaps the focus should have been on both, or maybe have the milk prominently as the backdrop without having the black chair there as well. Maybe a different colour table top would have made this composition more intersting and the green decor on the plate is unnecessary as it doesn't add anything to the picture

The dark side
by Darkpixel

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I like your choice of subject, I don't understand why you used that title for the image in this challenge. I would have thought "black & white" ... or is that too obvious? :-).
I like the backdrop but I am not convinced of the surface the 2 knights stand on and how it blends into the backdrop. I feel the lighting on the white king is good, but I don't think it's right on the black king. I do like the placemnet of your subject for this image.

path and wood
by posthumous

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I have no idea how you took the picture or what you did to it to make it look the way it does, but I love it :-).
Perhaps if the left and right edges could be a bit darker (like the right front corner), putting more focus on the centre and giving a little more contrast. and I am not sure if you could just level it a little? It seems to be tilting to the left, but that may be a trick of the eye due to the coloring as well.

joey and kristina
by FourPointX

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I like the way you used the "V" in the sky to frame/draw attention to the 2 people's faces. I love the colour composition with the sky and the human skin.
I would have cropped the picture a little more to get rid of the girl's stomach - not because I have an issue with short tops, but because the stomach as well as the man's arm keep drawing the eye away from the faces (at least it does for me :-)). mabe you could have edited the few reflecting spots out of the background to tidy up the image and also darkened the car on the left a bit more. I think the lighting on the people is good and the soft focus flatters their youthful faces.

Cookies & Milk for Santa
by Kelli

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I like your theme interpretation and I very much like your composition - looks really like a Christmas Card. Personally I have a problem with your choice of focus. It seems the tree is in perfect focus, but the little table with the note, milk etc is just out of focus. Considering the milk etc. is your main theme, I would have done this the other way round, or have everything in focus, which IMO in this image would have worked well, because the tree is fairly dark and your forground would draw the eye anyway. I like the way you made the note and red tablecloth almost look surreal, but I feel you overdid the brightness/highlight of the milk glass, loosing definition on the top of teh glass.

Bacon and Egg
by mrbig65

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Clever interpretation of the theme :-). I like your composition with 2 of the same, but one in and one out of focus and the main bacon on the photo's diagonal.
Your color balance is not right for me. The egg white is yellow, it should be, well, white. The bacon too shows little contrast and I think there is too much reflection on the bacon ? It has somehow lost its 3D aspect, which is a shame. I know food photography is very hard - the professionals use paint and laquer to make the food look the way it does on pics!