Fragile Strength
by rmlutgen

Comment:
Nice shoot, but even with this title I don't think it fits quite well on the dificult "strength" shotting challenge. Placing a coloured sheet of peper behind the flower to hide the rest of the things could had made the photo more "powerful", just an idea.

Viper
by Homunculus

Comment:
May be a little "out of contest"? Strength is a very wide subject, and chosing the right title helps a lot in those cases... "Power of red" or "The power of mechanic" may had make the photo + title more "in place" and raise the final score. Some times details are very important.

Strength of a Nation
by Geo_Griffin

Comment:
I think that the use of flash instead of daylight and the background will lower your final score. Just putting some towel behind it as background (held by hand) would had helped.

No more
by s2fraser

Comment:
Try natural daylight, it makes shoots much better in general, in the same way flashes ruin most of the shoots. Combining daylight with some artificial coloured light coming from opposite may also help.

I think you had problem with insuficient light, as the subject moves a blur a little the photo.

It is just what I should had tried, but the shoot was nice anyway!

I'll carry it all.
by anmurrell

Comment:
A nice artistic shoot. More light would had let you chose a faster shutter getting the same final effect but without the bluring... but more light can also ruin the final effect.. ones never knows!

POWER
by flip89

Comment:
Europeans will not give you a good score, we don't trust in military power as much as USA do... but politics apart, the burst efect of light make this a very nice final shoot to me, having same white on sky and stripes make it simple and elegant. Nice work!

Fire Power
by spydr

Comment:
I would had iluminated more the steel to make it shine more.

Bull
by kposey

Comment:
Pitty you get it a little out of focus... did you shoot more than one? In this case, I would had shoot 10 ro 20, from the ground looking up, more close, and so on, but if only make a shoot... you bet on a single number!

A good one could have been shooting to the bollocks from near, in some "strange" point of view that make the subject not inmediately recogniceable ;)

BA Degree: $50,000; Year(s) spent: 4 yrs, Strength accumulated: Priceless
by Salar

Comment:
Very nice shoot, for a 8 or even more for me... but the "strength" is not in my mind when I watch it... this week this was the difficult point, that's for sure!

Strength with no control
by nickgusto

Comment:
Imagination is the key in this "strength" contest! I would had use a closer diafragm to focus not only the middle line, but all of them, because having some of the "main characters" out of focus is a little annoying (the first line and the stuff on the back).