That hits the spot!
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Comment by Coley:
Great sky
Very nicely exposed

That hits the spot!
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Comment by Ammie:
One of the better ones, I think.

Christamas Eve Celebrations
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Comment by bsluijk:
I like the idea behind the shot, the way the glasses are captured and the silhouettes that together tell a story. With a little more attention to composition (the arm across a face, the missing profile of h female in the middle, the cut off nose of the all gentlemen, a little tighter crop perhaps) this could have been a winner.

That hits the spot!
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Comment by RianBotes:
Hits the spot for me as well an lovely clean shot and suppose the Vignetting works good here although not always a big fan of this.

Christamas Eve Celebrations
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Comment by bassbone:
great job - you can see the joy

Christamas Eve Celebrations
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Comment by PW321:
Seasonal jollity is appropriate. Little things distract for me like the weird things above the head of the figure on the extreme right. I would honestly have actually cropped that figure out entirely as for me the focus of the picture should be the light area behind the glasses, after all it is the raising of the glasses in a toast that is the central theme of this picture and therefore should have been more central in the image. Cropping would also have helped with the slight lighting imbalance in the picture as it is with the right side being much lighter than the left which also draws your eye away from the action with the glasses off over to the right.

I think I would also have taken a moment to ask people to move slightly so as to remove the overlap between the three figures immediately to the left of the very tall man with the sharp nose. As it is it looks like one person with 3 right arms and a very odd head.

The lighting however in the central area and the darkness of the silhouettes is spot on.

A study of the effects of water
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Comment by tvsometime:
Evidence of seemingly haphazard experiment tickles the deeper recesses of our curiousity.

Peter piper picked a Peppercorn this time...
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Comment by GAP2012:

Originally posted by bassbone: not sure lensbaby is the way to go to show texture

no lens baby used here, sorry! ;O)

Christamas Eve Celebrations
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Comment by figaro:
Nice candid-style shot that meets the challenge perfectly.

Peter piper picked a Peppercorn this time...
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Comment by bassbone:
not sure lensbaby is the way to go to show texture