Breakin' the Veil
by peete

Comment by Catherine_B:
This is increadable! Where did you get the mushroom? I can't wait to read about this image when the voting is over.

Breakin' the Veil
by peete

Comment by TLL061:
very sharp , great shot

Breakin' the Veil
by peete

Comment by e301:
From one mushroom photographer tto another ...

This is great - though I would have tried to stop the slightly overdone highlights, myself.

Breakin' the Veil
by peete

Comment by Bear_Music:
Simply luscious...

American Beauty
by peete

Comment by lcarterdavis:
beautiful skin tones, love the lighting. I don't like the placement of the hand tho.

American Beauty
by peete

Comment by arpita:
More diagonal placement of the body might make a better composition.

American Beauty
by peete

Comment by RochesterGal:
nudity is never art in my mind

American Beauty
by peete

Comment by e301:
Interesting the difference of approach throughout tthis challenge - those who've chosen to recreate scenes directly from movies, and those who've simply used a title from a movie to title their image. The latter was clearly the intention of the challenge, but this approach can't be said, I think, to have missed the point.

Hoever, it does have a certain different kind of problem, which is that your asking for your image to be compared to an original, rather than as a piece that stands alone; especially with such a memorable and oft-copied image as the sea of rose petals from this film. The simply enormous number of petals in that scene makes it difficult not to look in a certain sense at this as a cheap version. As far as it's possible to look at this in isolation, to forget about 'the original', it's not a bad piece of work - though I would perhaps quibble with your precise placing of the figure in frame, and with the exceptional softness of the light, and perhaps with your crop overall: I wonder whether a more angled shot, and a still soft but more directional light, and perhaps a concentration on the hand and the stomach might have been stronger?

American Beauty
by peete

Comment by Rankles:
This doesn't meet the challenge IMO, it's not like the other movie challenge. Sorry, it would've done great there.

American Beauty
by peete

Comment by jose3032:
Very sensual.