Cliff dwellings of Mars
by PhotoDave

Comment:
That 68,000mm lens really comes in handy sometimes! ;-)

Team Challenge 2010
by tjbel05

Comment:
Very nice stop-motion shot (very sharp for that shutter speed!), and the relatively shallow DOF works well.

Without the context of knowing something about the event, but just looking at the position and compositional relationship of the major elements of the photo, that (diving headfirst at a wooden rail) looks like a really dumb thing to do. ;-)

Whitby
by SaraR

Comment:
Excellently done, especially for handheld. Even with a pan/tilt head (with levels), it's hard to get a perfectly horizontal pan action.

If you want more foreground or sky (or just higher resolution), remember that you can shoot with the camera in portrait orientation and still stitch them, and also that you can take two or three rows of images zoomed in closer -- AutoStitch will work in two dimensions.

I note you list the shutter times as "various" -- usually when shooting panoramics for stitching you should shoot in manual mode at the same settings throughout, or you can get uncorrectable banding (especially across flat areas like a blue sky).

DPC Basic Editing Rules
by Digipixer

Comment:
Good idea to use the "random" arrangement for this topic! The outline/profile rather resembles a big fish ... :-)

"Hindsight"
by Rmac

Comment:

Originally posted by SandyP: It's a fairy tale.

In the thumbnail view, that branch looks like a unicorn's horn ... :-)

Message edited by author 2010-01-30 23:18:17.

CRW_0554-Edit-Edit.jpg
by cpanaioti

Comment:
I notice you seem to extend your spirals through more steps than I've been experimenting with -- can make for a smoother effect ... these designs with a few flecks of color seem to work well.

Thanks for sharing the technique for generating these spiral patterns! :-)

If Life gives you Lemons...make a still life photo!
by ahmadbaara

Comment:
I like the composition, but the lighting/contrast seems a bit harsh.

Trio
by MsAmbrosia

Comment:
Interesting treatment (of my favorite kind of pear) but just a little dark (on my monitor) for my taste.

101 MONTGOMERY
by jdannels

Comment:
"I can only assume these two were secret agents and the man behind the curtain was a spy"

Or maybe the Wizard of Oz. :-)

Interesting geometry -- the reflection is not quite a "mirror-image" ...

Congratulations! I'm sure if I'd shot this it would have finished about 50 places lower ... ;-)

He Was My Brother
by PennyStreet

Comment:
Oooooh ... I'm a little surprised anyone else even know of this song. I put the lyrics in my notes too, because I figured most people wouldn't know what it was about.

I didn't know it was specifically about Goodman (thanks for the info), though I know of another song (by Tom Paxton) called "Goodman and Schwerner and Cheney" about the same event.

Hmmm ... I wonder if it really is about Goodman, because the info I have is that the song is from 1963 -- if he was killed in 1964 that doesn't make much sense, unless Paul Simon is a prophet as well as a tunesmith ... or else some date info is wrong somewhere.