Every morning
by Bolti

Comment:
Don't you get soap all over your t-shirt? ;-) I like this - there's a pure ordinariness about it, a refusal to pander to the ideas of DPC's clean set-up photography; and also a sense - because of that lack of pandering, probably - of the genuinely real. I like the crowdedness of this space too - it feels, with the collections of bottles, the precarious towel stack, like a real person's bathroom. And for all that, it's plainly obvious that this must actually be a set-up idea. I like those paradoxes, and the result.

Hour 23 of the 24 Hour Shift - Making Mother's Day Bouquets -
by pointandshoot

Comment:
The balance of the flowers and the bloke is pretty well done here. Nice image, and I'm glad that the floral element hasn't been allowed to over-dominate.

Modern Day Marlborough Man
by Pedro

Comment:
Fine portrait, with good detail and tonality - the conversion is pretty well done, perhaps the very extreme highlights only causing problems. Good light too. Is the rope alone enough to speak of environment? On balance, I think it is.

Another Day in Paradise
by Herblacklist12

Comment:
There's a certain quality of direct-flash domestic photography that is quite intriguing.

Part Inspector
by edmeng

Comment:
Nice portrait; the washed-out quality of the equipment is strange though, especially in a challenge that seems to require the interaction with the subject's environment.

Station Master of his own Railway
by train

Comment:
Ah, proper marvellous this is. Your dealing with light is a little unsure, i'd say - the left side of the face seems just too far exposed, but it's a minor point. The model-work is so good that it's a genuine shock of scale you present, and the hand adds an engagement with that world that is essential to the image. I wish that the 'sky' were slighly less bland - darker, lighter, whatever, but it's a muddy nothing tone at the moment, and i find the sepia-toning a little much, would have preferred a straight black-and-white - that would have made more of a connection with the documentary photographs of the age his model depicts I think. But those are minor points, really. This is by far the most interesting shot in this challenge, by streets one might say, and ought to win.

This Is My Life
by Judi

Comment:
I wish you'd softened your flash just a little, which would have reduced or negated that shadow across his forehead. Fill-flash is absolutely right here, fo course - allowing you to make use of the natural contrast of that heavy sunlight.

Unsung Hero our Firemen
by sherpet

Comment:
Strong sense of character here, which is good. There's a sense, around his face, of some over-processing: the detail there seems rather created than naturally captured - some areas seem slightly blurred together, but that could of course just be compression to get the file size down.

Housebuilder
by TUBORG

Comment:
He needs to be looking at that nail, rather than the camera, surely, or his next portrait will be in x-ray form. It's also a bizarre way to hold a hammer in the first place. Like the details, but not the processing.

Ikaros
by ergates

Comment:
Magical moment - you should be selling it to the travel companies. The curve of the wing of the flyer makes a nice parallel with the circle of the setting sun, and you've balanced those two elements within frame very well. Likewise, the secondary parallel of the little cloud and the horiizon make a nice counter-balance. Whilst a well-achieved shot, it's perhaps not so uncommon an image in itself, and perhaps, for this challenge, doesn't really tell us enough about the subject of this 'portrait'. For me, it's absolutely fitting, but having seen what's been written, as well as from one or two of the comments I have recieved, I suspect it won't be enough of an orthodox portrait.