Keys, Shots, Shadows
by banmorn

Comment:
Nice composition, but that big shadow on the right creates too much interest in what is outside the frame casting that shadow. It does give you those cool reflections, but it pulls too much interest away from the keys and the glasses.

Once-useful
by Whebb

Comment:
A lovely collection nicely framed but the lighting lacks drama and the color of that background steals too much attention from the lovely tones in the keys.

It is sometimes annoying to have others say what they would have done, so stop reading now if you like.

Had you shot this on a more color neutral background, with that blue light (from the window ?) on the left and a yellow fill light (like a desk lamp) on the right, you would have brought an equal amount of drama in, but the attention would all be on the subject rather than being shared with the background. To really make it DPC friendly you could have hung the keys from fishing line to break the planarity and show off different facets of the keys.

Prisoners Of Our Own Device
by jagar

Comment:
Somewhere between Jerry Ulesman and Wes Craven lies an image, and this is it. Dark, brooding, somber, lovely, lovely, lovely. The degree of clarity of the key is a bit much, it feels like you pulled it up a bit too strongly in contrast since the blacks there are so much deeper than in the face, so it seems to hop up into the plane of the window instead of sitting behind it. One niggle in a best in show image.

Observe
by JamesDowning

Comment:
This is a very uncomfortable image, it feels like slipping on snow. The primary elements are the blurred background on the left, and the distorted scene reflected in the glasses. The path of focus is along the edge ofcap to the frame downwards on a dynamic path that shoots the eye down out of the frame. I find my eye swirling and sliding, trying to find something to settle and never getting a grip where it can rest.

If you wanted to give the feeling of walking on an icy sidewalk, good job, I gave it a 6 for that unsettling feeling. The weird black and white in color was a bit unsettling, I have a feeling such a quirky study would have done better converted to B&W so the folks who see all serious inquiry into form and blur as needing desat, could have voted it up.

Losing focus
by damoninja

Comment:
I had this slated for a ribbon. I think if you hadn't had the glasses on the edge of your frame it might have done better. As is, the viewer might get a nice sense of wearing the glasses pictured, but only a minority have had that experience, and the majority see a truncated element, and interruption of the chief subject.

Stardust
by jjbeguin

Comment:
It has been a goal of mine for the last two years to get the brown with a shot I like, and here you get it with a shot I love, and Ill bet you didn't even try. For some reason when I look at this image I can taste champagne. Fizzy bright complex and faintly intoxicating.

How beer can be the sunset of a rockstar
by Alex_Petrini

Comment:
Congratulations on being the top finisher that had a less than sunny outlook on drugs. I had this slated for blue.

W I T N E S S
by lobrin

Comment:
"The light was all an advertisement board around the area and it got interesting."
You are a master of understatement, this light is frickin awesome. Beautiful capture.

The Key of G
by KristinaG

Comment:
it is hard to make a flat subject jump, but you did it with this lighting. Clever concept combining two key ideas and nice processing to bring out the tones in the keys while keeping the paper white.

Message edited by author 2012-03-30 00:21:50.

Keys to the Highway...
by NikonJeb

Comment:
Beautifully lit and elegantly framed. I expect to see this in the ribbons