Basil's best friend....
by agwright

Comment:
Ahhh, the herb! Basil.... I was trying to make the link to 'Faulty Towers'. Nice still-life, the water drops really make this shot, IMHO.

Jalapeño project
by redmondson01

Comment:
Neat.. The overexposed highlight is a bit much for my liking, but this is really well done, the composition is good, focus is bang on, the only annoying bit for me is the highlight.

Cubes in time
by sz_marta

Comment:
Zoom blur? Neat effect.. As an abstract this is really neat, although for the challenge I'm not quite sure what the objects are. The important thing is that it made be stop and look. Well done.

A Picture Frame
by ConcreteDonkey

Comment:
:-). I like the frame...

Double Dipped in Milk Chocolate
by neenee1999

Comment:
The green stripe in the back is a little distracting... What is it?

Talking Hands
by jcordina

Comment:
Neat... I'm not sure if it would be better with all the hands in focus, but I do find the front pair to be a little distracting being out of focus. Neat idea, and well done.. You've obviously got four very patient friends there!

Nothin To Say
by surajbhar

Comment:
This is very 'National Geographic', and has photojournalism oozing from every pore, but it's a little loose on a match to the challenge. What has caused this chaps deformity do you know?

Isa
by middelbosch

Comment:
Was Neatimage (or something similar) used on this? The girls skin seems to have a wee bit of that plastic feeling, which is not my cup of tea. nice B&W though, the range of tones is good and I like the composition.

Pulp
by Herblacklist12

Comment:
This is a very interesting shot... I'm not sure if I like it, but it's certainly different.

Your colour balance appears to be off though, and the two highlights on the right (your left) eye are a little hot and distracting.

Her left (your right) cheek appears to be suffering from jpeg compression woes, or you pushed the contrast/brightness too far in your ediing program, and there are definate 'bands' of colour from black to the skin tone. Your image is only 65k, so you had quite a bit of room to move in terms of JPEG compresion, as the site limit is 150k. If it's a PS issue, and you greated the high-key look using curves, you probably need to re-shoot and try to get closer in the source image. PS will do lots of things, but it's not magic.

You've got a great eye, and this shot shows that in it's composition on the high-key tones. Looking forward to seeing more....

The Unspoken Words
by kghoshal

Comment:
This is a good character portrait, but I'm sorry to say, but it's way outside the challenge...

Looks like you've gota bit of motion blur in this shot, will be interested to see what iso/shutter/apeture you were using. Obviously a reasonably small F number/large apeture as the background is nicely blurred, but I wonder if you couldn't have changed your ISO setting up a couple of notches, or pushed it -1 stop? The noice/grain of higher ISO would not have hurt this shot at all, and may have enhanced it a little, and pushing 1 or even 1.5 stops would have been OK as well as the shirt looks a little over exposed.

Dunno what sort of camera you have, but on mine I can take a 'test' metering without looking through the viewfinder, to see what shutter speed I'm metering, and it shows on the LCD on top of the camera, so I can change settings before annoying the 'model' by pointing the obviously at them.

Really nice photo, missed the challenge brief by a country mile, still giving it a 5 as I'm jealous of anyone who has the guts to do street photography like this.. :-).