Morning Coffee
by Mitonski

Comment:
Too intentionally arty for my personal tastes. An angle looking into the coffee cup to emphasize the liquid, or brighter lighting on the liquid, or leaving it colour, would have worked better with your title. I don't care for how dim the lighting is on the objects being shown; it says 'abandoned' to me, which may seem an odd thing to draw from it, but there ya have it.

A Stapler
by russi

Comment:
That's a mighty strange-lookin' stapler ya got there.

I don't know. I suppose as a minimalist piece it works. Of course, I'm not big into minimalism, but some people like it.

The Virtual Office
by Toddh

Comment:
I don't know if your relative devices are really that shade of blue (in which case, that's neat, and where do I get the faceplates? :)) or if you tinted it (looks more likely overall) but either way it makes them very cool to look at. I like the idea in general. I'm kinda curious how it would look against a background that suggested something out of the office, but in this challenge it probably would have gotten your head handed to you. So, a neutral background is fine.

A Well-Organized Circular File
by alanfreed

Comment:
This is funny. I think larger type on the labels would have made it more a photo I'd actually envision wanting to hang on my cubicle or something (in the dual sense of 'office art') but this one requires too close-up to make a good poster style thing.

House Beautiful
by giampo

Comment:
House Beautiful = interior design magazine. This = at best a poor pun.

If you were going to do a pun like this, you should have found a more attractive spider web. The background looks attractive but as the focal point is on the spider and web and the background is blurred that doesn't much help.

Better still, if you wanted to enter this shot into this particular challenge, you should have found a magazine that might have accomodated it. I would have thought more highly of it. I don't care for spiders and if I look at a web I'd like it to be pretty and iridescent but I would at least have felt it was truly on topic.

Star Light Express
by donpram

Comment:
I cannot find any indication on if your magazine really exists.

It's hard to judge from the title if this would be an apt magazine cover; the title appears to describe the image.

The image, while visually interesting, is without context for me given the challenge.

The Recorder
by Koriyama

Comment:
Problem: never heard of your magazine, was dubious and checked, google hasn't either. There are probably existing magazines this photo could be for in general, wish you'd picked one.

The lighting on this is not at all to my liking, with so much bright on one side and so dark on the other. It might, however, work out fairly well for a copy compositor depending on how much cover copy there was.

Highlights for Children - 4th of July Issue
by rj324

Comment:
While I've never seen anything quite like this on HiglLights, in a special edition perhaps I can imagine it. The photo is fairly well suited towards the topic, although a bit shy on cover-copy space, though I think that's less of an issue for Highlights. I wish given the colourful Ferris Wheel you could have gotten a more colourful firework, but it's still nice.

Cigar Aficionado
by crabappl3

Comment:
Precisely the type of thing I've seen on Cigar magazines. I don't know yours in particular but other versions have had items like this. Lots of negative space at the top seems common, lots of room for the text. Close-up to show the brand and style is also common. I can easily see it. Good job.

ELLE
by jenarom

Comment:
Best women's magazine pose yet, although frankly I cannot imagine Elle putting that particular top on the front cover of their magazine (I could be wrong). Also, the grass in the background may not have been the best choice -- against sky might have been better, or a neutral background in general. Model's makeup and hair is about what I'd expect from such a photo. Crop seems about right for this magazine.