Saints Play in the Dome on the Right
by kenskid

Comment:
I'm loving the sense of scale in this! I would have hit it through topaz detail (or done equivalent stuff in photoshop if I knew how!) cause it has a sense of softness to my eyes. Or maybe just sharpened it. It's also a bit noisy so a bit of denoising software mightn't have gone amiss either.
I might have also tried sepia on this. The monodont bluey-greeney seems a little... dull :-) Nice skyscape, as I said.
I've got a cloud fetish.
Also, not voting, just commenting.

The Fortune Teller
by gyaban

Comment:
Very nice. Love the lighting behind her head!
I also think this is the best example in the challenge of painting with light supporting the subject. Most of the other lighting seemed incidental and put in to meet the challenge to me. This lighting makes this image.

Message edited by author 2011-08-01 07:19:53.

The long walk to faith
by Revecca

Comment:
I'm not sure that the whole shebang here gives you the ultimate effect. There's a bit too much, to my eye, in it as it is. I would either have shot the upper or lower half of the inside. In landscape mode. Using the line by the windows (around half way up) as my bottom or top line. If it was possible I would have used HDR to boast the details in the dark as well as the light (windows) because some of the details are blanked out. I would probably have also used lens correction to parallelise the features of the church, making everything vertical. The more I look at it the more I'm thinking I'd go for the roof.

Does this bike make my butt look fast?
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
Steve?
I reckon you're right in that case. Your horizon is probably involving bikes...

Affection
by Alyn

Comment:
Loved this. thought it should have done much better!

Bubble and splash
by william88

Comment:
Very odd about my original comment disappearing. I think it went along the lines of...
Very nice. I have no idea how you did this. I might have composed it either wider in the left or tighter on the right. But that is just my preference on the thing. I've no idea how you got the different colour splash. Did you use under water lighting?
Congratulations on another blue!
gave this a 9 originally but went back to bump it to a 10 after reflection :-)

Message edited by author 2011-07-25 03:35:15.

Red Branch
by colorcarnival

Comment:
Almost looks like a flag to me. I think it deserved being closer to six than five. But you'll always have haters in challenges! :-)
I like your scoring distribution! Very narrow!

The Antidote
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
Not a bad finish. Macro challenges might be one of the friendlier challenges for abstracts. I also find them frustrating though for the reasons you mentioned in your comments :-)
I liked the shapes in this.

Smith & Wesson Model 59 9MM
by tfarrell23

Comment:
Oddly enough this makes me think footman forever, though I doubt it's him!
Great sharpness on the gun. Nice tilt too. 7

Ignite!
by bcrants

Comment:
Very tough image to capture. Good work!