After work, alone with my thoughts
by david_c

Comment:

Originally posted by ggcadc: great image, doesnt seem to meet the challenge instructions...

I'll have to disagree. "Use light to capture one or more shadows", and I hope that's what I accomplished. I guess I'd be interested to see why you think it doesn't match the challenge.

All I Want....Is A Friend
by Piratefx07

Comment:
Great story, but the technicals have let you down. Needs a clockwise rotate and a little dodge & burn.

Butterfly Bokeh
by basssman7

Comment:
Wow! Great finish, Ernie, congrats on the top 10.

Vitamin C
by david_c

Comment:
Stop it! You guys are going to swell my head. :-)

Thanks for the comments, one & all, I really appreciate the pointers and opinions.

Descent from the Cross
by De Sousa

Comment:
meh. It's all right. I coulda done better, given 15 minutes or so.

j/k, someone had to balance out all the gushing, didn't they? :-P

strawberry.jpg
by david_c

Comment:
This is pretty heavily cropped, probably 200% or more. I could try a portrait crop...the light on the right side of the berry is actually just some gold wrapping paper for a DiY bounce. Thanks for your comment!

Originally posted by dagordman: Nice shot David, Nice detail, i personally think you should of shot this in portrait mode, to much light to the wright i think? Most studio shots are any ways, nothing less it is still a quality shot. Learning light is an obsession isn't it ?

Little Boy Blue(jeans)
by david_c

Comment:

Originally posted by ucanoe: how did you do this in basic?

Yeah, I thought someone might ask this....the link is in the description, if you're still interested. Long story short: use a hue/sat layer and desat every channel but the one(s) you want to keep. Make sure that adjustment layer is in normal blend!
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Message edited by author 2008-12-28 14:22:28.

The_Man_V.jpg
by david_c

Comment:

Originally posted by SnapperL: Well regardless of the ambient lighting i think this is a beatiful image. I'm not offering critiques or anything, i'm just curious why you didn't use a smaller aperature to blur the wrinkles out of that backdrop? :)

Not enough space in my make-shift "studio" to get decent separation between him and the background. I'm going to go out and find some real backdrop material eventually. Thanks for your comment!

The_Man_V.jpg
by david_c

Comment:
Fellas! WTF?!? My own little rant forum come to life.

GB, in fairness, I believe I have heard the "Tv=ambient control" maxim before. I was shooting full manual at 1/250 and playing with the Av/strobe output. Since the higher my Av value meant the darker my backdrop, I think that's what had me confusing myself.

v123 may be a dick, but he's a helpful dick and a dick with an eye for the image. In terms of actual Dv (dickishness Value), he's almost as bad as this guy that used to be around a while ago, routerguy666. It's like they were the same guy, or something.

:-)

Indulgence
by JulietNN

Comment:
Of all the jewellery images in this challenge, this is the one I like best.