Lost our Tops
by Bujanx

Comment:
Very flat exposure this: and from the look of that reflection, rather un-thought-out lighting to go with it. Sense of composition is a bit strange for a set-up image, everything being condensed across one line through the horizontal centre of frame.

Single Seeking Jelly-Must Be Low Carb
by EssAreDubya

Comment:
Cropped too close, light too direct and uninteresting, angle of view to ordinary and obvious - all these elements will hurt your score, and make this an uninteresting image. The dead quality of light on your background also doesn't help. The 'good' points are that the exposure and sense of detail are fine.

Fun in the Sun
by Cam

Comment:
Interesting illustration of the effects of point of view here: this is so much like a million car photos in every on-line car sales site, except perhaps taken with a better camera, and maybe more carefully exposed. But its very difficult to make an impact with images taken from the everyday standing-up point of view - especially of everyday objects, and especially in colour: you become too much part of the world of everyone's snapshots.

Go higher, go lower, go closer, go further away, but simple framing from around five foot up in the air is always going to be very very usual.

Tap
by GinaRothfels

Comment:
Almost an interesting study of the moulding, the casting of this object. Dynamically, in light, it becomes a touch flat: perhpas the background is simply to ordinary grey. The illumination of the cureves of the tap are intriguing though.

I used 2 be a topless girl
by Oded

Comment:
Whoa, Les Dawson lives! I get, from your title as much as anything - certainly not from the image itself - a sense of disrespect that I don't like much. A sense of her being laughed at for her age, her look.

Blew His Lid
by vandoornbuddha

Comment:
I like the simplicity - the extremity of the simplicity. It could have been taken further, with more control of the light to make a smoother background (not without keeping some element of graduation across those areas of light and (for want of a better word) shade. For a set-up, it shows at least a spark of inspiration.

topless stripper
by sunraygp

Comment:
There is, I think, a delicacy required in the framing of a such a very simple image: exactly how far one chooses to allow negative space around the object. The immediate impression here is that you've cropped or framed it too closely and that, for a really basic illustration of something, as this shot is, you should give it more room to breathe. After all, in itself, it's really not an interesting object.

Cracking a cold one
by kashi

Comment:
Beer as not-beer, perhaps; without title I'm not sure I could have told you what this was - and I think I might have liked it more for not knowing, for the indecipherable nature of it. It reminds me of the foam one sometimes finds on plants in the morning, the eggs of insects.

to the point
by mikaylaraine

Comment:
Nicely organised, and well shot technically. Somewhat obvious and lacking a real spark other than as a pleasant series of colours for me, however.

Boiled Egg and Soldiers
by SoulMan1978

Comment:
Almost reminds me of Martin Parr; he has a photo of a proper cup of tea served in an English tea room, which works along similar lines: saturated colour, direct flash to remove all shadows, simple centred framing - lacking in pretension, just showing us the object as found, as seen. Arguably just documenting the item, letting us draw our own conclusions. He would work more simply still however - total depth of field, rather than using the focus to point the eye in this manner. People will call it a pointless snapshot, perhaps; and perhaps they're right - perhaps its the kind of thing that needs rather to be seen in a series, than as a stand alone image.