The Girl With A Pearl Earring
by sher

Comment:
Hi sher, this is a wonderful reproduction, I can't believe how much your niece looks like the girl in the painting!! You did a great job with the costume, lighting and challenge, this was one of my 2 picks for blue. Wonderful, wonderful job.

Up in Flames
by tyt2000

Comment:
Greetings from the CC. Great building, well captured. Nice sharp clear image. The 'flames' are wonderful.
My only possible critiques are: one the building looks slightly tilted to the right. But it could just be the way the flame on the right sticks out. ANd the shot may have worked well with the building being composed a little bit more to the tright vs. a central crop. I really like the red brick in the front to add some color to it. Well done. Keep shooting!

Old School Clock
by Pooba

Comment:
Greetings from the CC, technically a well done shot, that fits the challenge an interesting detail and look at a subject. I think this sort of shot is a good historical documentation of a subject. I think you used the points of more general interest to draw the viewer to a subject that is not such a 'generally' interesting shot. I think that is a unique skill. It is effective at drawing us in. Well done, keep shooting!!

Did you see that?
by simbamba

Comment:
this was one of my favorite shots of the challenge I would love it if you told us where how shot it, how did you get white background?

"Technical Silence"
by middelbosch

Comment:
Hi greetings from the CC. I like the composition of your photo, and it certainly meets the challenge. I wish the black was not quite as dark. My biggest struggle with this shot is that it is challenge limited (tho i suppose it could be for hearing aid company). I think the challenge topic makes for shots that only hold interest in a very limited way.
I think otherwise your lighting is well done, it is sharp and well composed.
Hope that helps a little.
lynn

The silence of waiting
by apetrik

Comment:
HI greetings from the CC. I think this shot may have been more successful with a 'typical' use of DOF, where the objects in the foreground are sharp and the background is blurred. I think the top would be nice if it were cropped out as well it is a little overexposed. Although I can see doing this may have made a small image even smaller. You may want to try to resize your images to be a little bit bigger if at all possible. I hope these ideas help a little. keep shooting!
lynn

Silence: find it in the snow
by AndyTek

Comment:
Greetings from the CC, very nice job with the exposure of the snow. I find this shot has a lot of areas of interest. The patterns the trees make, the 'tracks' in the snow and their is lots of detail in the trees themsleves. What a great place to have a house! It is sharp and clear image. I am not sure why this image did not score so well. My biggest criticism would be on the top left it feels cut off some and i would like to see a little more, or some kind of reason for that crop. I also like the unique perspective of taking it from above and looking down.
It could of been a bit sharper but I do not find it too unsharp. hope that helps a little, happy shooting!

Opposites
by Kaja Lund

Comment:
Greetings from the CC. Well technically I have to say you did a great job with getting the exposure right in this shot. The snow is exposed very well, not easy to do. Taking a shot of fire in the day was also a unique and creative take on the topic. I really like the way the flames are transparent. I think had your fire been bigger and your whole image was shot 'thru the flames' this would of been a truly great shot. I am wishing that the fallen tree was perhaps not there, it is a bit distracting from the flames. There are some very interesting flames within this shot. Well done. Keep shooting!

Blaze Of Glory
by SirBiggsALot

Comment:
Hi greetings from the CC, here's my thoughts on this image, firstly I think it is a bit too centrally positioned, making for a fairly dull compostion, moving it over to the right with a bigger frame (meaning black space) would probably have helped some. I also find the object on fire (string?) almost too prominant as do I find the label on the bottle distracting. The idea is not a bad one here, the black bckgrnd. works very well, would of liked to have seen a bit more room at top not cutting off the 'flame' esp cuz its the challenge topic. I would also to be curious to see how image would look if rotated it so that the bottle looked as if it were lying on its side and then of course cropped so side of bottle looked like the it was on a table or at least the bottom of image. just some ideas, keep shooting!
lynn

Printer Malfunction!
by deadd0g

Comment:
Greetings from the CC, the idea here is not bad however technically I have a few thoughts. Keep in mind the backgrounds of what you are shooting, i.e. in this shot it would of been eay to move the chair so it is not in the frame. Shooting on aperature priority (if possible) or portrait mode would create a greater depth of field allowing us to focus more on the subject than the extraneous details. A central compostion is very hard to pull off IMO, moving your subject off to left or right can do lots to add a bit of interest to a shot. Also IMO i think you need to be careful with borders, sometimes they can enhance an image, other times they detract from it, really need to ask self which you would like to accomplish.
just some thoughts, hope it helps.
p.s. I admire your willingness to set a printer on fire for a shot!