Interlude
by Pedro

Comment:
Excellent duotone! Great contrast and focus especially on the jacket which looks like a nightmare to expose correctly. I'd crop this shot a bit differently, however. Starting with the upper left corner. Maybe crop the left side a small amount to eliminate that dark triangle. I'm suggesting this since you already cropped part of the case so a little bit more would not hurt the composition. Now for the right side. The dark part of the post needs to go as I feel it draws too much attention away from the man's jacket. If you cropped right up to the gray portion of that post would be perfect. 8

Paris, Las Vegas
by Pep Ventosa

Comment:
Oh my god! I've taken almost the EXACT same picture with my F717! Except since mine came out a tad blurry, I added some noise and it made it look very nice. But I see you used a faster ISO setting and introduced noise anyway. I think it would look a lot better with some monochromatic noise to give it an old/European feel. Hard to describe but I really liked the way mine turned out although your focusing is better than mine. I would have cropped more off the bottom as the lights on the awnings are a bit distracting. 7

Hot and Spicy
by librodo

Comment:
Excellent composition and cropping. Colors are nice and vibrant. I like the feel of this photo as it might go in a culinary review of a restaurant. Having said that, I don't see this as something extraordinary maybe because I live in Los Angeles and see Asian food all the time to in my opinion, it's common. It is a very good photo in its own right, however.

Fun Fruit Flowers
by woodsey

Comment:
Nice arrangement but the directly over the top perspective is a bit boring. Maybe shoot from the side and use shallow DOF to your advantage. Also try various colored backgrounds to minimize disctractions. Also, not sure what these fruit slices are resting on but the border resembles a cabinet door and seems out of place. Contrast and focus (to a lesser degree) need some work as well.

Snappies - The Cereal That Bites Back!!
by Gatorguy

Comment:
Nice idea! Although when doing a mockup box, you might want to make sure that all sides of the box are done so that people don't know you just covered a box of Raisin Bran. And I don't know if that's a real baby turtle but aren't those are protected and not allowed near humans? Lighting is a bit bright on the model's face and background is a bit distracting.

Just Another Day in Beantown
by Tuckersmom

Comment:
Excellent idea and very creative. Somehow the perspective isn't quite there as I don't get a feeling of scale. Lighting seems fairly even but contrast lacks depth. Color is also off as I see quite a bit of red.

Stuffed Penguin
by BobsterLobster

Comment:
ROFL! I love it! I was going to look at all the entires then start voting this time but I just HAD to comment on this one. Love the color and the soft focusing although I think this would have been better b/w . The table arrangement and overall composition are excellent, too. Very creative and a 10 from me.

Rifle Shooted Water Balloon.
by eojedaa

Comment:
I was thinking about using water ballons if I were to enter this challenge and you did a wonderful job of using this type of medium. Although my shot would not involve a rifle, I was going to drop the balloon onto a pin or other sharp object to pop the balloon. Then I thought of logistical problems such as the water flying everywhere and that pretty much ended my train of thought for that challenge. Great job!

Blowing in the Wind
by jjenks

Comment:
I think the foreground is hurting rather than adding value. I almost want to reach out and push the plants aside to get a better, less distracted, view. And the highly overexposed sky at the top is, well, overexposed. That should have been cropped out. Colors are nice and focus is off a bit assuming that the purple flowers are the main focal point.

Wine on the Patio
by jjenks

Comment:
Nice job with the glasses and using the stems as lenses. The shallow DOF works very well, imo. There are some bright spots on both glasses and are slightly distracting. I would have cropped the right side a bit more, as well. Also, the "horizon" behind the table is at an odd angle to the rest of the composition. I think if you took the shot from a lower point of view, that could be eliminated.