Bee Bokeh
by Quigley

Comment:
This has become one of my favorites from this challenge. The soft glow of this lens is quite beautiful. The edit is excellent & the dominating bloom is beautiful, (voted this 6) but I also like it as an fine & rare use (at least on dpc) of this difficult, fixed aperture, unusual lens. I noticed the subtle circular bokeh, an interesting characteristic of a mirror lens, while voting, but at the time was not aware of how that could occur. My criticism would be that the crop is too tight, not enough bokeh shown.

E Scow Racer
by FrostyPaws

Comment:
Lightroom Presets - DEVIANT

Urban sunset orig
by Melethia

Comment:

There is certainly room in this for camera aspect crop for the exceptional but awkwardly shaped b&w.
I actually like the full frame but here would be an alt crop attempt -

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Message edited by author 2008-07-05 10:20:43.

24.52 Urban sunset
by Melethia

Comment:
A studied & probably patient observation. A fortunate alignment of the birds and approaching figure, and all at the edge of a shadow - beautiful.

Something Wicked This Way Comes
by alissa-miller

Comment:
very good light upon the foreground from a beautiful Maxfield Parrish sky.

B&W-Week-25.jpg
by ivale28

Comment:
I love the story and this beautiful photograph.

Post Lumy Award nominee.jpg
by chromeydome

Comment:




Message edited by author 2009-05-10 21:13:03.

Purple-plus.jpg
by linny

Comment:
I like this - in consideration of the mentioned square crop suggestions, yes this image would work square, but for what purpose, a news photo, cut to fit a newspaper column? I lean to the natural format, camera aspect ratio you have used. Even though the background is essentially plain, there is colour and space which contributes to a sense of environment for this beautiful specimen. I'll make a vote for the aesthetic consideration of full frame.

motionbird5.jpg
by cynthiann

Comment:
very effective expression of movement in this edit.

Return
by xianart

Comment:
I like this. Formal, centered, perfectly aligned & fairly rigid circles & lines composition; Tone is good, but your neutral density edit (especially evident since you have mentioned it) at the top may have altered or rather dulled some aspect of an expected bowling alley commercial interior lighting experience, and may pull in a negative way from the interesting, central return lane/line with noisy, rumbling, rolling, black, blurry balls.