Initial impression: Basically a good colourful shot of a popular theme in this challenge, but lacking in the WOW factor. In voting I would have given this a 6.
Technical: Good even lighting, but a bit flat. The pov is fine for this sort of immediate overhead shot; the dof could use a little work as it does look a little soft. Good use of thirds and lines.
Artistic: I love that the ends of the pencils have that odd white band, it really helps draw attention to the heart...
FWIW: ...in fact, I would have cropped this way down to drive home the shape, and really hit it with the saturation, then after resizing, used unsharp mask at least once and probably sharpen edges too.
Overall a pleasant pic and very well done in terms of execution, just needs a little more tweaking to make it pop.
Cool. That's weird how there is white right below the color of those pencils very interesting.... anyways Cool picture I like that the pencils "sharpened point" (where the wood turns to color) almost seems to make a circle rather then a heart then the points make the heart. Colors could have popped a little more however....
The image meets the subject matter dead on. A sound demonstration of the creative process in meeting the challenge in a very unusual way. A couple of minor detail problems as the image appears to be less than sharp. The DOF could have been used more effectively. A good solid entry into the challenge.
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