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From sonya_roberts@geocities.com:
I rather liked this image.  It's got a nively haunting quality to it; the
little
picure of the kid stuck into the edge of the mirror frame is especially nice.
I like the colours used - it gives it a feel almost like a sepia photograph.
Very nicely done!

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From agage@mines.edu:
I like the layout and detail of the scene.  I noticed, though, that there is
a lot of color banding on the back wall reflection and on the ceiling when
viewed on a 24-bit display.  It could just be the level of anti-aliasing you
used, unless there were other lighting effects (like radiosity) being used.
Don't take this as a criticism, though -- I really like the image!


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From kazemir@pde.com:
Good image.  I like the camera angle, although I would expect more object to be
reflected in the mirror.  The halo's on the light bulbs could have been a
little mor subtle, but bigger.  Great job!

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From bill.marrs@pureatria.com:
Wonderful realism!

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From 93johnst@scar.utoronto.ca:
As usual, your images are nicely composed and the lighting is excellent. 
However, as you stated in your test file, the image is incomplete. Perhaps a
robe
hanging off the partition would be nice.

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From lowellr@globaldialog.com:
I would not put another thing on that table except for a small 'thingy'
of kleenex, you might want a dressing gown on chair The biggest thing 
that needs to be done is texturing the walls to get rid of the circler
pattern and maybe tile the ceiling  
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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
Nice lighting, nice lights.  Just perfect modelling on the objects (except for
the open box -- I think the hinge point on the lid is incorrect).  Even with so
many objects, the scene seems rather empty, however.  Something is missing. 
How about a white bathrobe hanging over the partition in the background?

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From wozzeck@club-internet.fr:
No, please don't apologize about your "poor" scene, just compare it with the
other ones this session ;-)
Lighting is perfect, as usual, and the only thing I could add concerns the
chait, a bit too simple.
By the way, who is this future world famous football/basketball player?

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From MMandl@aol.com:
I wish you had made this standard size. It is so nice and I wanted to give you
more points


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From dick@buckosoft.com:
Nice lighting and composition.

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From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de:
Really good stuff! Only down point is that the background seen in the mirror
shows strong banding.

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From i_emackay@mountains.net.au:
Nice picture, as you say, more could be done with it. One of the top 10 in the
competition.


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From Martin.Magnusson.7121@student.uu.se:
I think that scanned photographs usually don't fit
in a ray-traced scene. This is true in this case too, unfortunately, I think it
would have looked better without the photo on the mirror. The marble desk and
all
of the objects on it are really great, and the light bulbs look cool. What
could
need some more work is the door, abd maybe the walls. Really good image,
though.

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From arcana@sinbad.net:
Hey Jaimes. Bear with me. This is my first time judging. They invited me on
as a panel judge (go figure). I love the image. Another wonderful job. Of
course, 
what you really want are suggestions for improvement, not platitudes. <grin>
O.k.,
here goes:

The addition of a folded cloth/towel on the table. Maybe a box of tissues. The
door,
as seen in the mirror, looks a little washed out. Did you put a bit of an IOR on
the 
halos around the light bulbs? The ones along the upper part of the mirror seem
to 
be warping the mirror frame a bit.

The image evokes for me a fifties feel. Maybe early sixties. This is mostly from

the shape of the chair and the patterning on the mirror frame.

Nice one Jaimes. :{)

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From no13@ozemail.com.au:
A person reflected in the mirror would have been a nice touch. It would have
stopped the background looking a bit empty.


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From web_user@flex058.dijkgraaf.wau.nl:
Nicely modelled, but to my opinion you got stuck between two ideas. It could
have been a snapshot where the actress just walked away for a while - but the
desk is too perfect for that and the room too empty. If you wanted to create a
sort of still-life, I think you should have focussed more on the desk (zoomed
in), leaving the larger, empty parts out. This way your fantastically modelled
make-up items could get more attention. Your modelling and use of lighting is
brilliant (as always :) ). Too bad the jpeg-compression introduces that bad
banding-effect into the image.


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From r@dialup83.webbernet.net>:
I like the light bulbs.  The photo is a nice touch.  A scene like this should be
messier, though.  A smudge on the mirror.  Spilled makeup.  Parts of a costume
draped over the screen and/or the chair.  Less orderly arrangement of jars.  In
my top ten.
Notable for lighting, originality, modelling