Sparks flyin'
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
It is so fascinating to watch welding! I wish I could take my camera to work, so many fantastic photo opportunities, but I work on Naval vessels so :( no go. Good job capturing something with such a powerful light source, good balance.

Lakshmi
by daisydavid

Comment:
This is wild and fleeting, the action captures my imagination and makes me wonder what is going on. a good example of how photography could be extremely spontaneous, 7

heart
by skewsme

Comment:
peaceful and somber, full of texture like Georges Seurat (but moodier, of course!) 8

watching
by jcar

Comment:
try a more shallow DOF, would bring your model into greater apparent contrast against the background

Silence is GOLDEN
by mariuca

Comment:
A bold strike for the abstract, props go to you for that, but the meaning is lost (to me, of course, all art being subjective) because the foil covers much more than just the subject's mouth. 5

Golden Mean
by scotthadl

Comment:
Oh, touching at my weak spot for mathematical appreciation *sigh* how irrational :) if only the DOF was a bit deeper. 6

Old but Gold
by DigitEye

Comment:
Makes me think this was taken a long time ago when film required long exposures

Gold Finger
by shootout007

Comment:
nice choice for gold subject! angle is not very exciting, though. Think of how a player would have the instrument at an angle while playing it . . .

fly away home
by disassociation

Comment:
Tubes, one version of the poor person's macro. I personally use reversed lenses. best bet, at least from my exp. (notwithstanding my abyssmal rating in regard to the DPC) is NOT to use a tripod out in the field unless you can get your subject to move or move your camera as if on rails toward the subject. off-camera flash would be the key in that case.

Warm Afternoon
by tryals15

Comment:
This image is strangely beautiful! That's a good thing, by the way. there is an essence of falshood to it, something is not as it seems, a contrivance, trick, illusion. when reality can be captured to represent imagination, a photograph truly exists.