The Day After
by stephan

Comment by KAOS:
...after what?

The Day After
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Comment by maheshparab:
Upper left corner kind of hurt me when I looked at this one,Though this is a Nice shot

The Day After
by stephan

Comment by mookyfish:
that yellow thing unbalances everything. it disturbs me.

The Day After
by stephan

Comment by brentley:
nice work. really shows the garbage

The Day After
by stephan

Comment by GatorCB:
Good shot. The cartoon chicken (?) makes it great.

The Day After
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Comment by justine:
Now that's a MESS. Good luck. Justine

The Day After
by stephan

Comment by Nicholasp27:
i like how everything is so drab and dark and dismal and then that yellow face thing is so bright and well-contrasted

The Day After
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Comment by spanky:
I like the focus on the cartoon face.

The Day After
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Comment by ggosling:
Not too much in focus here, nice composition although I'd have cropped the left to get rid of the triangel top left

Visions
by stephan

Comment by stephan:
Well... of course it was not an illegal filter (will this never stop ;-)) and the overexposure was intentional of course, too. I even made it brighter in postprocessing :-) Maybe I make another version where I leave the brightness just as it is. I'm not sure if this is a monitor calibration thing again, because when I looked at the photo on a TFT display with not so much contrast it was really ugly.

And yes, this is a self portrait. That was the really tricky part. Try it and you'll see that photographing your own eye is not easy. At least it wasn't for me. The light is afternoon sunlight btw.

I understand that some poeple think it's a bit weak at meeting the challenge because the reflection is not the "main thing" of the photo. I almost guessed that in advance but I submitted it anyway. I like the lighting and the overall look of it very much. To me it has a lot of emotion.

The comments were mostly very pleasing and I enjoyed them a lot. I think I'll just ignore the score ;-)