Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background (20% Weight): 5
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing (20% Weight): 5
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc. (30% Weight): 3
How well does it meet the challenge (30% Weight): 8
Total Rating (Rounded) 5
This is a very cluttered, snap shot-y looking photograph. The lighting is flat and unitneresting. The pile of pens really doesn't make for a pleasing abstract or still-life arrangement. It looks like you photographed a junk drawer.
lighting could be better...with static, non-moving objects you could turn of the flash and take a longish timed exposure to get enough light, also you maybe could have elongated the perspective to the immensity of the task more