I do...
by Kerry

Comment:
Don't like this I'm afraid - seems confused, with no real point of focus, nothing to secure the eye.

Sea Shells on a Silk Shore
by johnnydpc

Comment:
Odd to have placed that green shell so centrally when this screams out for a thirds composition - especially as it's pushed the other shell to such a weak area of frame. If that's silk then it looks more like canvas. Reasonable go, though.

Eye of the Beholder
by spectre013

Comment:
Good work. Really captured the wiriness of the animal's fur. , especially over the eye and to the left of frame. Not convinced, photogrphaically, about the benefits of the very shallow DOF, mostly where the hiar to the left of the eye comes forwards of the focal plane. Confuses my eye a little.

Spice of Life
by ddmckinney1954

Comment:
Cookbook shot, especially that v shallow DOF - very trendy these days. Doesn't do much for me in terms of texture. Within the focal plane the sharpness seems extreme - a granular quality has come in, which loks processed to me and has reduced the subtlety of the detail there.

TuLips
by Bela45

Comment:
Quite decent near-abstract shot. Only a rather small area seems to show much texture, however.

my kind of.....
by nordic

Comment:
Moderately striking image - though the emphasis is more on light than texture. I think with shiny smooth subjects the best way to show the texture of them is to reflect light from them, rather than passing light through like this - which doesn't really show much of the surface at all.

Dry
by Flying_V

Comment:
Very very dry. With such an ordinary subject, so very mundane, I think the lighting needs to be extraordinary to give some punch: your light here is perfectly competent, the raking angle of it really shows the surface of the toast (and that puts you in the higher marks so far alone). Somehow you haven't really photographed that surface though - the concentration of the image isn't there enough. Sorry this is impressionistic, but then some criticism is.

Eraser
by yeoua

Comment:
Well lit, but a touch chaotic - there isn't a real sense of somewhere for the eye to dwell: more like a scientific exposition of something than a exhibitable photograph.

...
by fannyb

Comment:
Good capture of smoothness - good process of colour and light through the frame. Perhaps its appeal lies more in the colour than the texture - do you think it would have worked in B&W? That wouldn't remove the texture, would it ...

"Berry Smooth"
by jpochard

Comment:
There is at least texture here - though let down by a weak and disorganised picture: the shape of that spill of chocolate, the cropping, the munber of elements to take the eye.