dear john
by klkitchens

Comment:
Having the door slightly off from straight upright fits the jolting impact of an emotional situation. Sharpness is good. Exposure could have been much brighter for this challenge topic (this much grey suggests that an automtic exposure mode might have been used without enough exposure compensation).

Biscuits
by Cory

Comment:
Layers of brown spots and distortion, degree of blur, odd shirt message, and stark setting all are elements that could be an artistic statement. But it doesn't draw me in even after looking quite a while. Lots of dark elements likely to push score low. Will be interested to hear how this was accomplished in minimal editing (shot thorugh dirty pane of glass?).

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
by vawendy

Comment:
One of my favorites in the challenge. Nicely done.

White Rice
by IAmEliKatz

Comment:
Elegant simplicity. Exposure could have been slightly brighter, but I still expect to see this in the top 10.

Propose
by Mona

Comment:
Exposure of rings, ribbon, and container not bad, although could be a notch or two brighter. But the dark woodgrain main surface drops this way down in comparison to other entries that used "on white" as the concept for the entire background.

Pure
by Bensted

Comment:
Seems underexposed as though shot in automatic exposure mode without using exposure compesnation to adjust away from middle grey expected by internal meter. Too bad, as flower elements beng sharp in front with shallow depth of field works for this subject.

Farewell Kiss
by Basta

Comment:
Despite interesting and artistic composition, this suffers from excessive darkness in comparison to entries with white background. For this challenge, brighter exposure would have helped a lot.

Blanc sur le Blanc
by littlemav

Comment:
Lovely composition. Having background a bit darker than the subject may hurt overall score.

leaves
by rooum

Comment:
Fine balance, uniform background, and interesting texture. Bumping up a notch on repeat viewing; although somewhat dark in color, the old brown leaves are light(weight).

Sweet Tomb
by shahul

Comment:
Good subject choice. However, since camera light meters expect subjects that average to neutral grey, making things look white requires intervention to override what the meter thinks. This image could result from use of one of the automated modes without the corrective intervention. Exposure compensation or manual mode with brighter exposure would have helped.