Window Washing DP
by Bensted

Comment by posthumous:
good composition and color

Fallen
by Bensted

Comment by Denise:
this would be a good idea for an abstract challenge or perhaps a macro challenge

Fallen
by Bensted

Comment by jmritz:
Pining away. Lovely

What did you say DP
by Bensted

Comment by EL-ROI:
Nice shape and form to the subject. Very nice dark sky. I think overall the photo is over sharpened. It has that great western American desert feel and the harsher lighting was dealt with nicely.

What did you say DP
by Bensted

Comment by hahn23:
A good bird pose. The sky appears to be one tone. Might have looked more natural with a smooth or natural gradient. I might have composed the scene differently, with bird and stump less center middle. Overall, the light is pretty harsh and coming from directly overhead. Detail is good, but seems stressed by the postprocessing.

Vision at the window on a stormy night
by Bensted

Comment by Bensted:
Thank you for all the feedback, it is very encouraging and gives me the confidence to keep enterting the challenges to learn and keep exploring what I truly enjoy.

Vision at the window on a stormy night
by Bensted

Comment by posthumous:
if you can see it, it's not a ghost. this got an 8 from me.

Fallen
by Bensted

Comment by sylviaJenny:
harsh lighting

Showers of Evil DP
by Bensted

Comment by Alyn:
Looks like showers on lobotomized Golum. I like it.

Vision at the window on a stormy night
by Bensted

Comment by RyanW:
it's true, i couldn't tell what i was supposed to be seeing until after the voting finished. I always do first round of voting blind and only check thumbs after. I wanted to see what this was like in a thumb as i wasn't sure if it was supposed to just be some 'spooky window', but i got the hint of an eye and couldn't make out the rest on my monitor. And i see that i'm not the only person to have made this observation.
I'm honest in my comments and scoring and I know it sucks when someone doesn't get or agree with what you're going for, but thats the problem with subjective mediums.

I truly love the thumbnail version of this - if i could get that same effect from seeing it full size this would've been a 7 or an 8, but as it only came together in a tighter package (thumbnail) then it's just missing that *something* during voting. I spent about 5 minutes looking at this before casting my first vote, and about 0.05 seconds to get the thumbnail.

At first i thought the ghost was the white thing that is the lady's nose, i couldn't unsee that as the focal point until the thumbnail, but what has been seen cannot be unseen after, i'm able to make out the details in the larger picture now, but it's still not as cohesive an image.

Message edited by author 2012-05-18 13:02:08.