Open the box and your memories are gone forever
by Inside

Comment:
interesting perspective and background texture. I don't really care much for the harddrive case resting on the mirrored surface, it breaks the continuous expected edge which makes my eye keep jumping back to that location. With the minute color in this, I'm curious what it'd look like in B&W.

Disassembled orange
by kb4553

Comment:
an orange was actually my first idea for this challenge. I wanted to separate all the skin, the pulp, the seeds, stem, as far down as I could break it.

In this image: the leading lines of the bricks lead to the main orange, but the main orange seems a bit dark and underexposed, especially with the contrast of the pulpy pieces on either side of it. The big square line where you stopped cutting the peel seems unnatural. I wish it would have ended at a point or underneath. The orange slices not on the bricks seem distracting. they're not as formally interesting, and come off as sloppy in the otherwise very clean shot.

Abstract Time
by onepurplerose

Comment:
the white furry rug reminded me immediately of alice in wonderland. I think this could have made a good reference to that, both due to it's activeness, and strangeness. I like the crop, using the full image frame was good, and the objects are dynamic, there's a lot of paths my eye can take without stopping on any one thing in particular.

on a more formal level, the single light source cause a highlight at the top, and a shadow at the bottom, along with casting a shadow on the clocks face (important IMO). I would have liked to have seen less wrinkles in the rug, and just a tad bit more exposure. Good Job.

Fishing Reel Deconstructed
by franktheyank

Comment:
Lots of nice shapes and colors. I wish that you would have exploited the textures just a bit more. It's *almost* a straight up and down shot, but the perspective on it makes it feel like things are unstable or falling, rather than floating. I think I would have like to have seen this exposed a with another light as well, the background seems a bit dark, along with the shadows.

Love Me, Loves Me Not, Loves Me....Stupid Flower
by aj1621

Comment:
good dynamic, doesn't feel flat. The middle flower pedal is a great focal point, and the perfect angle. The stem of the flower feels a bit overlooked and sickly. maybe a bit of green saturation would help. DOF isn't bad, but I think I'd prefer the stem to be just a little bit more in focus, maybe one stop up.

I immediately regret this decision!!
by mileskea

Comment:
I'm not a big fan of the reflection in this one, it takes away from the elegance of the parts and turns it into a jumbled pile... which would go well with the title, but since everything is displayed so thoughtfully, I find it distracting. Exposure seems good, there's a few weird blue highlights (window?tv?) and there's a fair amount of highly visible dust on the mirrored surface. I wiped at my monitor for it. The crop on the left seems weird because of the other 3 sides untouched, feels accidental.

What a sunny day!
by haven

Comment:
Took me a little bit of time to realize it was a razor I was looking at and not some obscure camera equipment. It's a cute shot, nice title. The green basket seems out of place, but the harsh sunlight works conceptually.

Cracked Open
by Jon_H

Comment:
I am extremely curious about what that black bar in the reflection is. It's extremely distracting, it keeps causing my eye to drift to it. The form of this is good, I like it in the right plane as opposed to the left, and the thin shell membrane is the perfect amount of "not perfect." It makes me identify with it as hair, and makes the yolk remind me of a princess. (yeah, I bet you didn't expect that one.) Exposure seems mostly good, it's a bit bright for me on the right side.

Break!
by nickyb

Comment:
A nice surprise when it came on the screen. I didn't see it in thumbnail mode. Implied action in this is nice. I wish you could have gotten the pool cue sharp in there somehow. Composition is mostl nice. To make the shot perfect (compositionally) the middle white diamond, the orange 3 ball, and the male would have ideally lined up. Lighting in the bottom of the image is nice, the wall and the male seem to be a little bit dark. I would have liked to see the dark object in the left corner to be gone, and maybe some way to frame this, a vignette possibly?

Broken Leaf
by blueblossom11

Comment:
I was more excited for this one when I saw it in the thumbnail view. I'm not sure what is lost in the translation to full size, but I suspect it lies within the background. The shape is dynamic and leads you well through the image, and I like the focus where you chose it. The leaf color is a little bit drab, but I like how you dissected it. Overall not bad, it just doesn't create a lasting impression on me. It's one of those shots where I'd be inclined to say "Oh, I get it." and move on. 6