Edwina and Clem once had a playful relationship
by ElGordo

Comment by CNovack:
BHA-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

BAM! You hit the humor aspect out of the ball park with this one:-) Lighting and set up is perfect. Kudos to you for the ingenuity on creating the 'bomb'. Love the expressions too! He, focused intently on careful hammering the warhead . She, with wide grin, coming up to pop the paper bag to startle him. A recipe for explosive humor that only works one time:-) I love the caption/title. It is simply stated and one sentance long that works very well with conveying the thought and twisted humor of this one.

Edwina and Clem once had a playful relationship
by ElGordo

Comment by h2:
backdrop and text on bomb don't look too realistic, persons look cut-out, otherwise well done

Edwina and Clem once had a playful relationship
by ElGordo

Comment by UrfaK:
Lol!! and that was the end of the relationship..

Edwina and Clem once had a playful relationship
by ElGordo

Comment by Pug-H:
This one has made me laugh the most. I love the expression on her face - truly playful. I hope this Ribbons.

Edwina and Clem once had a playful relationship
by ElGordo

Comment by Sonifo:
hahhaha..so far my favorite one.

Father Sky
by ElGordo

Comment by catholicskin:
This is an amazing shot, and although other commentors said otherwise I think the foreground is well chosen. The rugged and unorganized aspect of the clouds is reflected with that of the buildings and powerlines, but the wide flat areas of cloud and sky are also heavily contrasted with their texture. GREAT SHOT!!

Marciare Carino
by ElGordo

Comment by catholicskin:
This is an amazing shot, so creative.

Marciare Carino
by ElGordo

Comment by graphicfunk:
Congratulations on your 11th placing with this lovely colorful march. Congratulations on your top 12th finish.

Marciare Carino
by ElGordo

Comment by eschelar:
Great shot!

I have an idea how difficult this is because I have toyed around with this sort of setup in the past. The first thing I saw in this pic was the lack of camera in the shot. That's tricky! Mirrors can be really fiddly like this.

I didn't even notice the basket weave in the slinky, but after reading of it in your description, I noticed how great it looked alternately reversing in the mirrors too... very cool!

At f/8, it looks like you may have encountered some softness inherent to diffraction limitation. Tough break shooting the P&S on this one...

That is one of the single greatest reasons I knew I had to get a DSLR.

I find that on my S2 (which has a very similar pixel pitch and crop factor to the 8800), anything past f/5.6 starts to get a little soft... At f/7.1 and 8.0 it's quite noticeable.

I recently found a chart with hyperfocal distances for my camera and I think that will help a lot.

Try a google... My hyperfocal distance can be as close as approx 5 meters (if I remember correctly) at f/5.6 which isn't too bad with a bit of zoom...

Something definitely worth researching as this can definitely help with shooting long DOF while keeping your diffraction effects at a minimum!

Message edited by author 2006-05-10 11:38:01.

Marciare Carino
by ElGordo

Comment by owen:
Clever idea. Wouldn't have thought of that myself.