Yeah, it's hot
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Comment by caseyconrad:
ouch ;)

Yeah, it's hot
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Comment by rsn1865:
Hand looks too relaxed to be burning. Good layout and photo.

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Comment by nordicgirl:
Effect of steem/smoke comming is real nice but overall it doesnt seem believable as the hand is relaxed and doesnt show pain.

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Comment by boesepetra:
I'm curious how you did this one without getting hurt.

Yeah, it's hot
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Comment by grandmarginal:
Why do I see a big red crossed circle? Very cool and convincing set-up. The smoke looks great!

DPC: three enthusiastic thumbs up!
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Comment by Mary Ann Melton:
Critique Club - I think your concept for this photo was excellent. You have great exposure and good focus. I like the arrangement of the hands - a simple elegant composition. However, your lighting picked up a face, and lettering on someone's shirt. These extraneous things pull my eye away from the emphasis on the thumbs. I agree with the suggestion that some black material draped over the arms, faces, and shirts would have made this a cleaner composition. In photoshop, you could have done a layer of "Selective Color" and using the black as your selected color darkened out the background- which would probably have been cleaner than cloning it.

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Comment by Moose101:
Great technique, would have been a good entry in the breaking ground challenge. I personally use my sunglasses in this way! I like it and the stars in the glasses add a little something extra. I do have a problems with the grainy B/W portion of the photo, as compared to the colored one, maybe too much adjustments on the B/W portion? Neatimage would probably have taken care of that. Keep up the good work.

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Comment by dectus:
wow, wonderful idea :)
love this smoke, hope you're not really burned you to shot this pic

Optimism
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Comment by parrothead:
I LOVE the idea...but the sharpness is lacking.6

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Comment by aronya1:
Nice shot. Very creative. Well composed. One of the better images in this challenge.