GearWerkz
by mcmurma

Comment by DCThiessen:
I like it, great use of color. Very creative.

GearWerkz
by mcmurma

Comment by bobgaither:
nice job with the blue and black background--good image--9bobgaither

GearWerkz
by mcmurma

Comment by Marsha:
Nice. Very nice. Love the color and the unusual subject matter.

GearWerkz
by mcmurma

Comment by indigo997:
Cool perspective. I like the color and you did a nice job with the lighting. I like when the subject fades into the bg. The subject just doesn't do a lot for me. Great technically, very good at meeting challenge....I couldnt come up with a good subject either ;oP ~indi

GearWerkz
by mcmurma

Comment by louis1470:
Nice lighting, I really love the blueish tone. Great DOF and Details... Looking good in the challenge!

Beneath Cocytus
by mcmurma

Comment by Gordon:
I liked this shot a lot - very well created. I had to look it up too, so kudos for making me learn something and making the shot interesting enough that I cared to find out :)

Hope your wife is feeling better now

Beneath Cocytus
by mcmurma

Comment by magnetic9999:
i personally looked up Cocytus on Google (using the internet for research and info? imagine that! :) ), and got the title. THought it was a nice deep interpretation of the challenge. good job!

Beneath Cocytus
by mcmurma

Comment by paganini:
this photo is awesome. I thought you used a bubble wrap, but i guess i was wrong :-)

Beneath Cocytus
by mcmurma

Comment by mcmurma:
For those of you that wondered how the shot was done, here goes: First we froze about a 1 inch thick slab of ice in a baking pan, then laid that on top of a glass end table. We did use a little green food coloring in the ice, and the tabletop had a green cast as well. Then my Wife was kind enough to flail about under the table trying to look like a totured soul ... Cocytus is a frozen river/lake in Hell. In Dante's Inferno its where traitors like Cain and Judas were punished for their sins of envy (hence the GREEN cast) by being trapped under the ice. Most of the green color was photoshop.

I didn't expect a lot of folks to get it, and I had hoped it would be better recieved than it was. What surprised me was that, green as it was, so few were able to make the connection to ENVY. Go figure.

Beneath Cocytus
by mcmurma

Comment by wingy:
The shot is cool... but I really can't tell what is really going on (or how it relates to sin). The face is slightly too obstructed to be able to make out the expression well enough.. a little more clarity might help. However, it's a very interesting idea and I like the shot and composition in general. 7 wingy