Minimal-Day-1Web2.jpg
by cogerox

Comment:
well .. its amazing wot a bit of sharpening does ... for a start it makes it sharper !!!!!!!!! .. but it also gives the image depth and more contrast as well ... thanks roger for putting both the sharpened and unsharpened versions in to compare ..

minimalismchallenge2.1web1.jpg
by cogerox

Comment:
great shot roger .. love the perspective and the composition ...

Fleeing the Storm
by owen

Comment:
just beautiful owen ... fantastic photograph and excellent processing ..... bird man extraordinaire ....

Day 1
by Hipychik

Comment:
beautiful .. love the dark feel and that amazing deep blue of the sky and the snow in the foreground .. great composition .. check out rob's rheverly church steeple ... at first i thought they were the same church, but after looking at his again i realise that they are very different .. his has similar branches tho ... and of course you live in different countries!! ...

1 Sec Heron, Minimal PAD.
by MelonMusketeer

Comment:
hi waddy ... for the difficult conditions .. dark + bird you got a great shot .. that bird must have been stunned or something .. dont think i ever see birds stop doing something for as long as a second ... well not the one's i try to shoot anyway ..

Fringe
by Alicia

Comment:
great alicia ... love that sky .. love the sun ... excellent the way you've composed this shot ... as i type this its 4pm on saturday whereas for you guys its midnight on friday .. so i'm not that speedy after all .!!!! ... was talking to a friend about the power of mustangs and my car is like a toy in comparison!!

Day 1 - Church
by Bruce_the_Robert

Comment:
hi rob .. fancy seeing you here!!!!
excellent shot .. love the compositon and that fantastic blue sky and those branches framing the shot ... it seems other ppl have said they'll be sharpening, as with minimal editing rules .. but in the other thread lisa said lets go totally unedited .. it'd be good if everyone did the same thing so we really know wot the camera can and cant do ... i wont be sharpening either.. i'll be downloading, then open in photoshop, resize and save for web .. that's it ... when it comes to doing the editing later, well that'll be another story!!!!!!!

Message edited by author 2007-03-09 19:31:44.

Sunset People
by Alicia

Comment:
just havin a browse and came to visit your portfolio etc ... this is an excellent photograph ... they almost look like they're waiting to be beamed up by the next available space ship ... great in silhouette ... great postures ... the hooded one makes it even more interesting ... fantastic shot alicia .........

861web.jpg
by mpeters

Comment:
hmmmmmmm ... really cant decide between the colour and the B&W ... i think its like comparing chalk and cheese .. they are both absolutely fantastic in every way, just very different ... i dont think either one is better than the other ...
edit .. BUT ... i can now see that they are leaves, and not 'white things'!!! like i said in my comment on your b&w version ... and it the it no longer looks as if it could be a model train like it did for me in the b&w... interesting eh?

Message edited by author 2007-03-08 23:17:56.

861webBW.jpg
by mpeters

Comment:
awesome photograph ..... love b&w especially when it's done well ... and this is done soooooo well done!!!!!! .... love that smoke contrasting with the straight lines of the train ... the more i look at this the more interesting it becomes .. i wonder wot those white things are in the foreground ... and now i'm wondering if this is a full size train or a model ... wotever you've done in the actual photographing and in your processing you've created a wonderful and intriguing image ... just excellent ....
thank you for your comment on my unedited rural scene ... i'm a photoshop fool and it was a bit difficult to put a totally unedited photograph on my profile page!! ..

just read the other comment after i wrote mine, so i'll check out your colour version ..