Glass of Red Wine
by TheDruid

Comment:
Nice composition and light placement!

net at night
by dewed

Comment:
Nice motion capture!

Golden Heron
by elsapo

Comment:
Wow, great job at keeping the heron visible with all that backlight!

Hills of Green
by BaldurT

Comment:
Beautiful scene and colors. Appears just a little bit fuzzy.

Exit
by phoenix46

Comment:
Great composition!!! Powerful use of constrast.

Cloudy Day
by carotop111

Comment:
Just stunning! You got such great detail and contrast in this shot! Great fit for theme.

Look out for that bus!
by abroken1

Comment:
Thanks sfalice for the in-depth critique! I've requested one each time and this is the first I've gotten. I purposely tried to make the car and van 50-50 centered, but after looking at it more, I agree with you that cutting out the uncrumpled part of the car on the left side to make the crop with the thirds would be more visually interesting.

I think I stand by my DOF this time, since I wanted to make sure the damage on the car was easily visible with the van being the more prominent and more obviously damaged in-focus object. However, I think it would still have shown on the car if I had ratcheted the aperture down to f/2.8 and would have given a more desireable OOF effect to bring out the bus even more.

I also agree that I should have fired off a couple of shots since I was just standing around watching things get cleaned up. Maybe I was overconfident in the sharpness since the speed was a little faster than the standard "minimum" for the lens length (1/135 @ 135mm).

Thanks again for your help on dissecting this photo!

Look out for that bus!
by abroken1

Comment:
It's interesting that I got one comment suggesting deeper DOF to get the car more in focus, and one suggesting narrower DOF to get the car more out of focus :) After seeing the result, I personally would have preferred the car a little more out of focus, and I wanted to do more with it since I had actually gotten there before the fire fighters.

The bus was initially on it's side and I got a couple of shots of that too, but since I was carrying only my 135mm lens for something entirely different, I was very limited. I would have posted the tipped over bus, but I thought it was too "documentary" and not "artsy" enough :)

Oh, and amazingly enough, driver and the two kids in the day care minibus walked away, the 3-yr old passenger in the car was uninjured. The woman driving the car had some scrapes and bumps from the glass and metal coming in around her, but was otherwise fine.

Message edited by author 2006-01-05 00:49:32.

Red Light District
by Cutter

Comment:
Great job at creatively bringing out the theme of your title!

Reflections
by deli

Comment:
A little longer exposure would have lightened the interior nicely.