Gretchen, Mark, Rosie Jack — 3 Generations in Sunset Light
by Bear_Music

Comment by muur88:
great exposure and focus. i understand what you were going for but the bg looks a bit fake, perhaps due to the tough editing around their heads. if only 1 person where to look at the camera, i would have liked it to be the focal point or in your case, the baby

Gretchen, Mark, Rosie Jack — 3 Generations in Sunset Light
by Bear_Music

Comment by LalliSig:
I may be wrong here, but the jagged edges around the babies head and her head in particular lead me to believe the backround blur was added later but not really important. Just looks "wrong" somehow.

Anyway, the image is very nice, love the lighting and it´s a very fitting shot for this challenge and as a bonus the image quality is very good, you got a 7 from me.

Gretchen, Mark, Rosie Jack — 3 Generations in Sunset Light
by Bear_Music

Comment by Riponlady:
pity he is not looking at woman as she looks at baby. I know it's sunset but colouring looks wrong

Simmer : Ecliptic — 2005
by Bear_Music

Comment by Bear_Music:
The bubbles are caught in the stage just before they break loose from the bottom, so movement is minimal, and minimalized further by the fact that we're looking nearly straight down on them. Since I use only "found light" (it's a matter of principle right now) and since I needed DOF, and since my camera is VERY noisy at anything but ISO 100, I just shot a lot of exposures at 1/4 second, actually underexposing the shot) and chose the one with the least movement.

I too am surprised this didn't do better. IMHO this is a very creative take on the challenge, showing somethign few people bother to look at closely (my glorification of the banal concept). Still, it has no color and it has no in-your-face eye-appeal, so I gues that's askign a bit much.

Thanks to all commenters.

R.

Simmer : Ecliptic — 2005
by Bear_Music

Comment by bucket:
Thought this should have ribboned!

Simmer : Ecliptic — 2005
by Bear_Music

Comment by Matthew:
I still love this shot, but am amazed you got this clarity of bubbles on a 1/4 shutter speed. Not sure if you have the function (or the desire), but a slightly faster shutter would have stopped the motion fractionally better. In taking photos of air bubbles in water from the side on, I found that I needed shutter speeds of 1/3200 in order to stop the bubble completely.

Simmer : Ecliptic — 2005
by Bear_Music

Comment by undieyatch:
I greatly enjoy this one.... creative dynamic banality! superior editing.

Simmer : Ecliptic — 2005
by Bear_Music

Comment by Army of nOne:
I completely agree with Olyuzi. I had you pegged for the top ten on this challenge. Congratulations on a great shot regardless of its final standing.

Simmer : Ecliptic — 2005
by Bear_Music

Comment by Olyuzi:
Highly underrated image. Wonderful abstract, terrific tonality and original.

Message edited by author 2005-07-13 00:39:05.

Simmer : Ecliptic — 2005
by Bear_Music

Comment by asitv:
best in this series of bubbles... 7 for good composition, framing. clarity could have been better.