Residential uplift
by mijak

Comment by mexico:
Moving house? Nice picture.

Residential uplift
by mijak

Comment by Azrifel:
Funny. :)

My favourite pastime
by mijak

Comment by LucidLotus:
Tone choice is nice, looks good in black and white.

I find the most compelling portion of the image to be the design of the chess pieces. To that end I think a DOF that showed all of the pieces in detail would be preferrable to the single chess piece. I catch myself straining to try and make out exactly what the other pieces look like. Perhaps if the focused piece were a bit more central it'd make a difference in my perspective.

Speaking of perspective, I do like the feeling that I'm inside the game with pieces all around, much better than if you'd simply gone for the full chess board shot that is done often.

Over all a fairly clean image, could use something to make it pop a bit more, though I'm not sure what. 6

My favourite pastime
by mijak

Comment by puzzled:
It's a nice shot - I like the depth and then the concentrated focus on the one piece. Lighting is also good. I made the following comment in a couple other comments, and hope you don't mind - but I do with there was a hand or something in your entry to show a person doing something to pass the time.

My favourite pastime
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Comment by Mr_Pants:
I think that the depth of field is a little off here. I'd prefer to see the whole of the centaur (knight?) in sharp focus. The field of focus seems to extend from somewhere in front of the piece to somewhere around the hind quarters.

My favourite pastime
by mijak

Comment by sidpixel:
I like the mono presentation but imo I think isolating the knight with an even shallowere DOF (if possible) would have improved it - good luck

My favourite pastime
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Comment by JPR:
Finally, a cool chess set! 7

Crossing water, crossing air
by mijak

Comment by Kathy:
Underside is too dark against the neutrals of the cement upward.

Crossing water, crossing air
by mijak

Comment by Mr_Pants:
A nicely bright picture.

Crossing water, crossing air
by mijak

Comment by conceptphoto:
Not a bad idea, but perhaps at anytime but noon day.