Playing his heart out
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
Boy, you're on a roll lately...

Window Washer Blues
by banmorn

Comment:
You know what's strange about this one, to me? The sense of SCALE seems off; the people seem way too large for the size of the panels they are cleaning. I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but it's quite bizarre to me :-)

It's a lovely image, and (as you've realized) it would be lovelier still had you cropped off the anomaly at the bottom.

The Metropolitan Government
by tamatama

Comment:
"Removed purple seams"? Are you referring to "purple fringing", a lens aberration where high contrast edges can show color shift?

IN any event, a lovely image altogether :-) It's not all that often that the fisheye look comes across so natural and organic. Well done.

Corduroy
by Bear_Music

Comment:
HDR look, medium intensity, Black Soft, Medium intensity, a lot of edge burning...

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
by sjhuls

Comment:
A very nice font. Maybe use a cooling filter to give this a hint of bluish cast?

Predator and prey
by Cory

Comment:
Yee haw! Cory got a ribbon! WTG, dude!

Equalized
by bohemka

Comment:
Regarding the vignette, the lighter the scene the more noticeable the vignette will be. Let's suppose a vignette had a density-added factor of "10". If the sky, say, were already a "80" (dark blue) then the vignette wouldn't be very noticeable on top of that. But on top of pure white (a nominal density of "0" in this scenario) then the vignette would really stand out. That's what you have here.

Additionally, with the light directly behind you, it's bouncing off of things in front of you and back at the camera, very bright. The more off-axis you get, the less bright that will be. And there's mopisture int he air, so the air and ground both are reflectors...

Message edited by author 2010-12-14 18:22:47.

img068_edited-1
by MikeO

Comment:
That's a hell of an image...

Stages
by banmorn

Comment:
They look like Banmorn structures :-)

calm and fury
by LevT

Comment:
Hello, Scripps Institute. I suppose this could be LevT, but we have many San Diegans, so... Many's the time I have shot this view :-)