The grass has riz. Spring foliage colors combine well with old innerspring. What would make this picture fully for me is a remaining tag threatening to the full extent of the law against its removal. Just joking. On the more serious side, rust is hard to photograph. Its powdery and dark nature make it hard to render as a highly focused shot. I would have liked to have seen the mattress dragged out of its surroundings and rearranged to make one or two springs very clearly defined.
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background 4
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing 5
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc.? 2
How well does it meet the challenge: 10
Total Averaged Rating 5.25 Dick
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background 6
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing 6
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc. 5
How well does it meet the challenge: 7
Total Averaged Rating(Rounded) 6
The circular and linear elements in the subject offer some interesting graphic possibilities that were not capitalized on. Also, the DOF seems a little too shallow to capture the whole subject, but it's definitely a compromise re: getting nicely blurry background. Since this seems to be a pile of junk, I'd suggest that you can move things around to compose your shot -- for example, the vertical thing in the background.
I'm having trouble finding anything in this photo that's in focus. I'd suggest a smaller aperture (larger DOF), but the (trees?) in the background might become too distracting. This is a really tough shot to make look good. Perhaps just focusing a little more on one thing would help. Also, this image was compressed too much. It's less than 50K, the limit is 150K. That might be part of the reason it looks out of focus.
I like the whimsy you have captured in this image. It is nicely photographed as well, with sharp detail where it needs to be and nonessential detail blurred out.
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