Man-Made Rainbows
by stickee

Comment:
Nice idea. My best tips for improving: Double check your focus, just because your focused to the right distance, doesn't mean that the image will be sharp. This is typically caused by too slow a shutter speed. Lighting. Probably the most import thing in photography, play around with it, reflective objects are hard, so start simple, maybe with a classic sphere approach. Take a white sphere and just light it in different ways, another great method is to light a mask. Exposure. Very important, this is probably what cuased those really hot white spots on the CD. Unless you want this look, avoid burning in white spots during the capture of a photo with a digital camera, unlike film, a digital photo tends to not hold much detail in the hightlights. With film, you would typically do whats called a "dodge" in printing, which effectively darkened a hot spot during printing, thus reavealing more detail in the highlight. You can't do this very well with digital photos since they have much less lattitude than film. How much depends on the camera's resolution, and what quality mode you shoot in. Backdrop. This is obviously an attempt at studio photography. You can select your backdrop, typically, simple is almost always a winner, patterned, well, thats like gray area and highly opinionated. From the look of this, its hard for me to tell because of the blurring, but it looks like a carpet type material. Definanly want to consider that next time. Hope this helps you out!

Rings & Reflections
by notonline

Comment:
Good capture of the reflection, but I just don't see how this relates to the challenge, sorry.

Mind Circles
by zumba666

Comment:
What on earth is that thing behind the woman? Neat picture. I would try and maybe paint out that line on the floor. Nice job, an a ZILLION circles to meet this challenge!

CD Circles
by radharam

Comment:
My best tips for improving this are: lighting, lower ISO speed, and probably get rid of that spindle thing.

An Eye for an Eye
by Tikicharm

Comment:
Certainly meets the challenge. I'm not sure this will do well though, it's not the most pleasing looking eye, and it also looks like you blew up a photo bigger than its original resolution to get this close.

still motion
by saiofsaisxiong

Comment:
WOW! This is gonna do well. Did you just put your camera on a tripod, and zoom in or out during a long exposure?

Out of Sync
by aboutimage

Comment:
Very well lit, I know how hard it can be to setup lighting for such a reflective surface.

through the lense
by chris_23

Comment:
This has a lot of potential.

Hey , the bus is leaving
by soheil

Comment:
I kinda get this....I think. I work in Film and Televison, so....based off what I know, I think your trying to say that IEEE 1394 (aka "Firewire") is becoming obsolete, and SDI (Serial Digital Interface) is taking over...could be wrong though.

Cheques From The Past
by Jade 11

Comment:
Good subject for the challenge, but as a photo, It could use some work. The lighting really flattens thses checks out. Consider side light to provide more texture.