Microscope Glass Slide
by meendee

Comment:
Very nearly spot-on. The composition, the framing, the angle, the depth of field (just narrow enough), the white-point (bleaching out whatever is above the lens barrels) - all great. The three lense barrels lead the eye nicely down to the specimen on the slide - inspired.

I wonder, though, if the lense barrels could've been cleaned up a bit for the shot. And some of the specs of dust cleaned away from around the slide.

Picky, picky, picky...

Ebony and Ivory
by Elvis_L

Comment:
There's a lot I like about this shot. The mix of clear and frosted glass, allowing for transluscence, refraction and reflection to all feature. The strong contrast between left and right. The way the refraction allows light to travel into the "dark" side, and vice versa.

But does it need to be so nearly symmetrical? And vertical? And square? Maybe you tried other positioning, and it didn't work so well...

Study in Glass
by Beetle

Comment:
Too busy for me, I'm afraid...

Bottle After a Storm
by benhur

Comment:
Aren't bottles for containing liquid?

Swan with the light of a candle
by melancoholic

Comment:
I think you've worked the properties of the glass quite powerfully here - both the refraction of the clear glass and the transluscence of the frosted glass. It creates a pleasing effect. The contrast with the red background works well too, as does the fade from bright red to black.

The subject does look just a little "plonked in the centre", though.

Fruity Colors
by Jade 11

Comment:
Strong use of colours, and an effective tight composition. Nice.

Black and white
by xantangummi

Comment:
A nice idea. The shot is well framed, and taking the "black and white" theme right through the cruets' contents, the title and the choice of monochrome reproduction is good.

It's a shame that the detail is kinda washed out in the middle by the backlight, and that you didn't have sufficient depth of field to keep the pepper kernels in focus.

Oddball
by glad2badad

Comment:
Great idea, well executed.

Stairway to Heaven
by fotojunkie

Comment:
Nicely done.

I particularly like the broken curve of the reflection of the right-hand building. It's rather incongruous given that the buildings are all (presumably) built straight. Something for the eye to ponder...

I wonder whether you could have framed it so that the high-point of the buildings wasn't dead-centre of the composition. But then you might have lost the framing effect of the lowermost sills at the bottom and right edge. Could you have cropped it to get a similar framing effect on the left, too?

It's a shame that the sky is bleached out. Maybe the shot would've worked better at a different time of day?

For all that, it's still a fine shot.

Lights out!
by acrotide

Comment:
Evocatively captured. The stark lighting and use of monochrome works well to create a sense of urban blight that goes beyond a mere broken light bulb.