Soft as a feather
by willem

Comment:
Very good on those tail feathers - perhaps less so on the head of the swan, which is inevitably the main attention grabber here. The focus and detail there seem so much more forced than on that tail, where the gentleness and sheer featheriness have really come through. A touch of halo-ing from too much sharpening around the neck and some of the shadow lines, but pretty good overall.

Grain of Gold
by MichelleS

Comment:
Love the light through that gap, and the shaping and leaning of the trees. get a stronger sense of patterning and form, rather than the immediacy of texture, but it remains a good assured photograph. excellently composed too, there's good motion in it.

Ted
by Enzo

Comment:
Little sense of texture here, I fear. The difference between any two individual hairs is very hard to make out, I think because the light is very flat and straight on. No feeling of three-dimensionality to this.

weary warrior
by nborton

Comment:
Nice image. Composition, colour, exposure, framing all very assured. as a minor point, in such a regular composition, i think i might have tried to get more precisely level with that collar, the slight perspective on it seems out of place, but that counts for very little against such a top shot.

Prickly Abstract
by LucidLotus

Comment:
Abstract it may be, but I get little sense of prickliness from it, nor, to be frank, of any other texture very much. Very flat lighting, I fear.

Ruffled
by shareinnc

Comment:
Great moment - and a real sense of the softness of the thing. Might perhaps have been a touch brighter overall, or had more contrast maybe? Though this way you have been able to get great detail, and I wouldn't weant that to be lost - just wonder if it might have had more punch? Good work, though.

Leaf
by paynekj

Comment:
Never quite convinced about the high-key approach for textural shots - the brightness of the white always seems to overwhelm the ability to see the detail. That is slightly the case here - though I think you've got prety close to getting over it. Good on the surface of the leaf, rather more tricky toward the edges. It does allow those tones to come through very well. however.

red carpet hair
by denispray

Comment:
Quite good, in that blown-out highlights kind of mood. the blating of that finger like that does also serve to concentrate the eye on the wool, which is a neat trick. Nice sense of the wiriness of the wool too.

Heirloom Igorot Men's Loincloth
by flip89

Comment:
Very illustrative photograph - had you tried raking the light across the surface a bit more you would perhaps have brought attention rather more to the texture than the colour and pattern of the thing. Good exposure though, and colour work. As a photograph, it doesn't do muich more for me than simply illustrate an object, however.

The smoothest fabric : Silk
by ramevi

Comment:
You haven't communicated much of that smoothness here - the lighting is quite head on, no? That takes away from the sense of texture in the shot. Good colour, but your positioning of the tie is a bit arbitrary seeming - doesn't give much for the eye to follow through the picture.