Fisherman at Dusk
by Bear_Music

Comment by Jutilda:
The purple of the sky is so beautiful againsat the green. I wish you could have captured this saturation without making his shirt and the bag on the ground pink. The reflection is lovely.

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

Comment by Gallatin:
Beautiful family portrait

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

Comment by garlic:
The composition is very good and the subject is nice. You´ve overdone the background blurring imho. Think you should have used smaller amount of gaussina blurr or simply leave it. The artifacts are obious above the head of the children and the edges around the head of the grownups are not attractive. Also find the skintones of the grownups litle to redish.
Without the background blurring i think this could have been a very good image.

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.