A beautiful shelf, contrast is just a little to high. shadows are too dark, but more important the highlights are much too light. You have lost most detail in the flowers and photographs. Try to see if you can correct it.

Congratulations!!! Have a cookie!

note: cookie is purely hypothetical.

Congratulations!!! Have a cookie!

note: cookie is purely hypothetical.

LOVELY!!! And thanks for the SBS

is cute....lol

Super shot, great colour harmony, nice idea, great realization.

very cool shot author...gl

wow this is so cool shot...gl author

very nice shot...gl

Fabulous shot author...very very moody,effective and a bit sad...High marks and instant fav from me...GL

I love this image, very cute, lighting scheme really works. If there is a contest about me, I'll be like teddy bear lol. And interestingly, I found Eve in front of the monitor, I like this character.

lol = )

wow, love this shot, the color tones and set up = )

Wish the picture was bigger, but awesome still = )

I like these entries that have the bears actually doing some "task" instead of just sitting it next to something

I think both the lighting and background work for this shot. It does look like he's surfing late night

Nice Job Congrats on 1st Place

agree with the above

Very nice shot but I'm not sure of the crop. My opinion (and this is only my opinion) is that the circles of light in the middle are too close to the edge of the picture.

Excellent work, author. Lighting a shot like this can be very tricky and you did a great job (although Friiskiwi did give a great tip). The purpose of this contest is to show a teddy bear "anthropomorphized"...that is, given traits to make it appear as if it is alive. I think that your choice to go with a typical bedroom wall for your backdrop really hammers this fact in and was a wise decision. There would have been nothing WRONG with doing a low key black background...I just think this looks better. All the best!

P.S., I actually lol'd when scrolling through the hi res and I suddenly came across Eve.

agree with BeardedWorm

great feeling of 'lonely' well done

Very nice use of the light to set a mood -- DOF is well used also

Simple but nicely done !

interesting angle

Very interesting information. beautiful shot!

The idea was ok, a little bit similar with mine's, but this is another perception. With this background the whole picture seems a little bit amateur, You should use a dark sheet, in the right side of the monitor, for background, to felt the artistic way of this picture.

great shot, so full of life

great shot and setup, well done

Fantastic concept, excellent execution!!! Great job on the photo and the SBS was a plus!!!

Wonderful concept! So did he find any friends??

Nice idea, but ti would be improved if you used some white paper to reflect some light onto the back and side of the bear, and then darkened the whole image a little.

erathion, can i ask you why do you comment the same thing for the whole entries? You are a talented user, if you like something i think you could write down why do you prefer that work.

Wow this is so cool...beside image it looks that u had great night author...lol...best of luck

Fantastic thinking and so so cool shot...best of luck author

super cool shot author...best of luck

Awesome!

lovely work!!!

amazing shot, in love with the clarity!

Absolutely fantastic work, author. Very clear and crisp image that definitely shows the bear in action. Great SBS as well (thank you for posting it). All the best!

very very nice photo author...i always liked Celtic symbolism and how they always use elements of nature in their ceremony's...best of luck

Interesting. Looks like they are all strong symbols

Perfect shot...well done

This is awesome photograph, it totally should be in a classic cars calendar at the very least = )

Great shot author...well done

very beautiful,artistic....well done author

Lovely shot, at ISO 6400 at high res there is not much noise really..... so my question is... what camera did you shoot with?.... cause I wan't one...

Nice shot!

I LOVE THIS! Personal fav for me. I don't find it noisey just for the fact that what's in it draws your eyes to different areas and not overdoing it. But that's MO of course

Heh I play alto