I love the flow of the pencil points. Colors are dramatic. High contrast works well. The off-black background is perfect allowing for some shadowing. Among my top picks. Hope this does well in the voting.
Good setup and great composition and great lighting. However, I think DOF could've been a bit more shallow. I'm still rating this pretty high, though. :)
6 - Nice. Criticism; attention to minor aspects like the gold print on the pencils, a slightly different crop and/or angle, to allow the 'beginning' and the 'end' to fade in and out in 'synch' (the bottom right has some space in front of it which if similar to the top left would 'flow' better) and perhaps trying to attain more 'shallow DOF'/blur at beginning and end, would have likely made this even better in my opinion. Not sure on the base, 'works', but it seems to be competing with the colors/pencils too much. Also just noticed some shadow play so perhaps incorporating that may have given this an extra element as well.
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
