Confidence, Competence and Mastery This Year
by aircooledguy

Comment:
Another lighting person! Let's start a lighting club! I still need to figure it out more.

Practice More with Lighting
by illini75

Comment:
Nicely done -- Let's work on it together! How did you avoid hot spots, or did you fix them in post?

Just a moment
by timfythetoo

Comment:
Ha! Just looking through the challenge for the first time (been taking a break), and thought this was a great shot! Then looked at the name and though "no wonder it's a great shot!" :) Good to see you!!

The Quilter
by nam

Comment:
Just going through for a peak, and this one stopped me. It's really lovely. I love the lower contrast on this. I would have made it more contrasty, but that would have been so wrong.

Soft and beautiful.

Diana's Private Confessions
by Judi

Comment:
This is incredibly beautiful. I'd love to see the unedited original and how you got the beautiful softness of the colors. Stunning!

Dear Papa's Cabin
by snaffles

Comment:
What a creepy movie name! It's awesome!

Dating Psycho Charlie
by flaherma

Comment:
Whoa -- now he's creepy!

Distinct Palpable Clinch
by mitalapo

Comment:
Love the light and the hints of things around the edges!

Second Tuesday Every Month
by Lydia

Comment:
I really wish you hadn't done the toning on this one. I think it takes away from a spectacular impact. With everything being so much the same other than the people, just doing a B&W or sepia, of something that made everything feel like the same scene, would have given much more of an "oh!" when I got to the people. I think this could have rated around an 8-9, but it ends up as a 6 as is. Just thought I'd muse out loud... It is a great find -- especially the line going straight across the faces.

(btw, this photo just made me create a whole new "dpc bugs the crap out of me" thread. All because of the lines going through the faces. I found myself irritated at the line. finding it to be lousy placement, finding it to be a problem in the photograph, and then finding it to be fascinating. Realizing how unimportant faces are. I always knew this. I love the photos from behind, photos where you're not seeing the faces. But I never realized just how good it was to obscure a face through unconventional means. The photo is still a 6 because of the toning. But I wanted you to realize just how much I'm enjoying the discoveries here. :)

Ignore all of this if you'd like. Just thinking out loud. :)

vanishing exit
by 2mccs

Comment:
Whoa!! spectacular!! Absolutely stunning! Was thinking 9, but it must be a 10.