Between Light and Darkness
by Ammie

Comment by Teafran:
There is an interesting effect here that the author may have missed. If one takes the right side of the image out of the presentation, you get the effect of a Burning Bush. While the right side of the image gives a sense of depth and dimension, it is too vague to be truly effective. Additionaly, there is a little anomaly on the left (one quarter of the way in half way up the image) that looks very similar to a bad spot in a film emulsion - it's a natural object, but it is distracting. Overall a good entry into the challenge.

Between Light and Darkness
by Ammie

Comment by GIS_boy:
Beautiful light.

Between Light and Darkness
by Ammie

Comment by Lutchenko:
Breath taking shot.

Between Light and Darkness
by Ammie

Comment by michaelmonn:
great detail and depth in the picture i think it couldve done without the inner border but no points lost from me

Ol' Oak Tree.
by Ammie

Comment by CrystalFury:
Great subject and composition!

Table Wine
by Ammie

Comment by Teafran:
While this sentence may seem to be over wrought with angst, sometimes it helps to just reach out and scream "what were you thinking?". This is a brilliant composition in the meme of minimalist imagery which is marred by less than competant lighting control. The back lighting created blooms which ruin the gentle, pleasing tones and colors including washing out the incredible details in the right wood chair top and negatively affecting the bottle, glasses and candle stick. A little less exposure to control the white flare on the table top and candle flame and the elimination of the back lighting would have brought this image to perfection from both an artistic and technical standpoint. The author should revisit this scene and recompose to eliminate these issues and enter the image into a print competition - it would place very high in that context.

Table Wine
by Ammie

Comment by rlmichael:
Candel is a great touch. Great shot, good luck, Mike

Table Wine
by Ammie

Comment by BrianR:
The left chair is slightly distracting, very good use of the lighting....

Table Wine
by Ammie

Comment by tmorninglory96:
Beautiful set up and I love the border, but the bight light on the table is distracting. Maybe a closer crop or moveing the camera closer might have helped.

Ol' Oak Tree.
by Ammie

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
I like the subject and the detail in it, but the composition seems a little odd to me. Kind of like it is all squished into the bottom left quarter of the frame.