Visionary, Austin Texas
by paganini

Comment by billyp:
Who in Texas doesn't recognize this famous tower? Great positioning and it meets the challenge perfectly! The one person really takes away from the picture. Great job! 10

Visionary, Austin Texas
by paganini

Comment by smshats:
I gave this shot an 8, but I'd like to see more DOF.

Visionary, Austin Texas
by paganini

Comment by marvinmartian79:
Interesting composition. To me, George looks a little crooked, but I still like this photo!

Visionary, Austin Texas
by paganini

Comment by focus:
From the appearance of both the statue and the curb line, it gives the impression that the horizon is a bit off. If you had cropped this at the base of Washington's foot to the top of the current frame, you would have lost the lower portion of the building, but possibly driven home a stronger message. (I don't know for sure, it is just my subjective opinion.)

Visionary, Austin Texas
by paganini

Comment by justine:
This is nice, good work. Score 7 Justine

Visionary, Austin Texas
by paganini

Comment by DougPaz:
I like the composition. Dpz

Visionary, Austin Texas
by paganini

Comment by Gordon:
the tilt is annoying in this one, unless the statue actually is on an angle like this.

Sky is too bland to make this very dramatic or interesting. Perhaps a lower angle might have hidden the road and the yellow stripe ?

Visionary, Austin Texas
by paganini

Comment by vestanpance:
The tower, the statue and the road are slightly off from vertical/horizontal. Nice definition. I think you chose a very good viewpoint to take the picture from.

Visionary, Austin Texas
by paganini

Comment by alanfreed:
Great colors in the sky -- and good DOF!

Childhood Spent Locked in Closet, Rays of Hope
by paganini

Comment by paganini:
Thank you for your comments (at least the ones that are constructive :P)

As far as how long it took for this shot -- about 30-40 minutes. I had to adjust hte lightbulbs in my bathroom and the amount of light going through the door. Then I took the photo and saturate it a little more in photoshop to give the nice yellowish color (so no, it's not spot edited if you're wondering, it's a matter of using hte level tool to give it the greatest contrast and dim it a bit, then saturate the colors to make it more effective. The carpet would take the color and turns it into something unnatural looking which is what i was hoping for, as it's a creme carpet) Remember: it's very difficult to capture the original color in shadows -- our eyes adjust in real life but for some reason it doesn't work for photographs (i can tell the color is yellow when i took the photo, but it will come out as a greenish tint due to the carpet shading, it just wasn't THIS GREEN without saturating the color a little more)

And no, i was never locked in the closet, i had my share of corporal punishment, actually, more than my share. I do know people who were traumatized as a child and this is for them. I didn't want to do a happy childhood as a submission. So, it looked like a lot of people either HATED it or loved it as the score shows :-)

Thanks again.
Tony