Beams
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Comment by SJCarter:
Beautiful job... The composition, crop, colors, lighting, etc. are outstanding! Very nice work! Congrats! 10

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Comment by Artifacts:
Interesting surrealistic image. Reasonable high technical quality. Colors and framing done well.

Image meets the challenge well and engages the viewer to think about what it might be. It has the general shape of the alien spacecraft in the old movie version of War of the Worlds.

On the technical side the image has two noticable hot spots. One is on the left tip of the 'craft' and the other near the joint in the left 'arm'. They are slight distractions in the composition.

It is slightly low in contrast. You can tell because a simple autocontrast increases the contrast. Increasing contrast will make the image pop more and have greater eye impact. This one, however, is very challenging. There is a lot of fine detail in the light shadow that you don't want to lose which easily gets lost in a levels, curves, selective color or even just a strait black point adjustment. That further blows out the two hot spots. You might try an increase of about +4-5% in black with a selective color adjustment. This will effectively increase contrast without making the hot spots bigger. Then apply dodge and burn to bring out shadow detail in the interesting areas and tone down the two hot spots.

All in all this is one of the top images in the challenge and should place very high, perhaps in the ribbons.

Beams
by caba

Comment by digitalknight:
great colors, almost abstract, I like it

Beams
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Comment by dragonlady:
Interesting geometric shot..I like it...angles draw the eye upward into the picture.

Beams
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Comment by popdeepop:
Too many. Crop some.

New hat
by caba

Comment by CreativeFlyPhoto:
what an awesome take on the photo ... definilty will have to try this

Beams
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Comment by maralomar:
this is very nice, the lighting effect was amazing

Beams
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Comment by rebelgirl:
nice angle.

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Comment by graphicfunk:
Alluring. A superb capture with great lighting and colors.

Beams
by caba

Comment by ergo:
nice crisp image. 7