textures of an egg carton
by ScantyNebula

Comment:
Good. Great sense of plasticity, great sense of tone. the regular composition works very well too: strong graphic element to hold the eye, and a sense of depth to give some relief (in both emotional and topographic meanings). Not perhps something I'd want to buy, but ought to place highly, and technically assured work.

If you wanna know if she loves you so, it's in her hat.
by sendroverover

Comment:
What? Don't understand. Help. Very small pic. Contrast is quite extreme, and loses a lot of the surface qualities that might bring this into the challenge. Can't see the point ...

Leather and dog hair.
by anmurrell

Comment:
You seem out fo control of the lighting, and the placing of the subject is poor - is that a shoe in the background? Don't find the graphical structure of this very intersting at all, seems rather confused as to where the lines want ot be in the image.

Web in my kitchen
by gatchaman

Comment:
Intriguing pattern - and shows good understanding of the ideas behind regular and rhythmic compositions such as this - even allowing the handle to break that pattern is effective. Touch of brightness lower left is amazingly distracting for such a small area, thugh it's a function of the regularity of the patterning. Get some feeling of plastic from the image, but mutedly so. Nice work.

Soft-white Swan
by qnjt

Comment:
Very good. I think you've just allowed some areas of feathers to get away from you in terms of exposure, though tricky when it's still got its young feathers on its neck. great sense of the furry neck feathers, a touch less successful with the pure white back feathers.Composition is a bit odd - cropped so close to the curve of the neck, and that loop of the neck only bringing the eye to centre of the frame.

Tactile Defense
by fisheye

Comment:
aha - a spiky green thing photograph that isn't as ugly as sin for once. Good capture of the little leaves, as well as of the rough surface beneath. Kind of gives more feeling of reflection than illumination, which I think makes the surface llok harder than perhaps it is, and the very finest level of detail is not quite present - that sense of subtlety that really good lighting brings.

Agave
by carlacryptic

Comment:
Weird - is that desaturation, or is it really grey? Good on the patterning, and the spines of the leaves, but lacking a sense of surface texture.

Checkered Wall
by librodo

Comment:
Quite contrasty (a good thing), and good on the colour tones. Detailing seems somewhat squashed - as though this were a near 1:1 magnification off the sensor, which loses some sense of feel in the textures.

Leather Bracelet
by Apollo2077

Comment:
Nice high-contrast work, and a great sense of plasticity in the capture of the reflections on the leather. The brass grommets on the holes are well exhibited too. Certainly meets the challenge, and should score well, I hope.

The Operation
by israfel

Comment:
Oh - very peculiar. Good contrast of the metal of the screw and the softness of the bread, both of which textures you've really brought out here. The rest of teh pastry seems superfluous to the image, and just serves to crowd that moment with the screw, and a shame you couldn't have edited that background to black and got rid of some of those crumbs - certainly in dpc terms, but also they serve to make the composition look huried, and suggest that not enough care has been taken woth the presentation.