Stratus Eclipse
by Neil

Comment:
This works very nicely, though I think you could use selective color to mute the blown cloud halo a tad. It may not be an issue at full size, but it sort of is as 640 pixels.

Summer's End — Sunrise
by Bear_Music

Comment:

Originally posted by legalbeagle: Bad luck Robt - your image was very impressive. The colours are sublime (I must admit, I see the colour contrast rather more than any than luminosity contrast). Keep that 20D charged in future (how did the date get reset? My backup battery seems to keep forever).

It was never properly set to begin with; it was 12 hours off. Dumb error.

Oswald West Sunset
by Elemmennope

Comment:
VERY nice. Love the muted foreground tones.

Lotus Mood
by librodo

Comment:
Great finish manny. I find it interesting to compare this witht he color version, because this one seems softer (and not in a positive way) than the color one. Whatever, very strong image, as usual. I think this is the first time I've beaten out onw of your shots, so i'm happy :-)

Tribute
by Pano

Comment:
I really like this shot. I'd have bumbed it from 7 to 8 or 9 if it weren't for the PP haloing on the figure. I'll admit it had crossed my mind that this was the work of a certain icelander :-)

Cathedral of Colour
by Matthew

Comment:
Really nice finish here. I love this image. Definitely one of the very strongest color-contrast shots. I'd sort of expected it to ribbon, and it nearly did.

highcon04.jpg
by librodo

Comment:
IMO this is a much stronger image than the B/W version you entered, Manny. I like it very much.

DPC_portrait 9-11-15.jpg
by pixieland

Comment:
It has potential for sure. Plusses are a fine expression and some startling facial adornments. Negatives are a busy BG, blown-out wife-beater teeshirt, and an unfortunate cop on the top of the cap. The first two you can deal with in PP, the last depends on the framing of the original. There's also an overalls ense of slight fizziness to the face, possibly just an issue of no pp sharpening having been added.

Robt.

In this sky I feel lost.
by srugolo

Comment:
This image actually scored very well (commenting to your disappointment with the score) when you consider that it has major "high key" elements mixed in with the "high contrast" components. It's like it's two different pictures; a HC eye-and-eyelashes show superimposed on a HK eyebrows-and-face shot. It's a striking image, which is why it placed so well IMO, but it's visually shizophrenic, which might explain the relatively large number of 4 votes.

Summer's End — Sunrise
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Thanks for all the lovely comments. I almost didn't enter this because I knew it would blow my anononymity out of the water, but then I thought "What the hell, it's the best shot you've taken all summer and it fits the challenge, so..."

I wasn't the least surprised at all the comments during voting that pegged this one as being mine :-)