Watching
by MarkB

Comment by ecmguy:
Creepy, great use of lighting! I'd love to know how his face was lit! Truly amazing considering that the lamp, face light, and back light are all pretty much evenly lit in minimal editing!

Spartans Prepare For Battle
by MarkB

Comment by markwiley:
For whatever it's worth, I liked this one. I really liked the mood of it. In my view it deserved a higher score and more than one comment during voting. While the spatula offers some good processing advice that could have improved the image overall -- I just wanted to tell you that it connected with me as is.

Spartans Prepare For Battle
by MarkB

Comment by spiritualspatula:
The background is unnaturally blurred and your masking needs to be more nuanced and complete. Subjects at a given distance must be rendered appropriately or your mask is readily apparent. Also, the gaussian blur applied to the background gives the appearance of very poor bokeh. Not positive on the order of your steps, but if you were to mask and blur the background initially, before the sharpness and contrast tweaks that your did on the rest of your subject matter, you likely would've created a more nuanced background with less harshness, but this could also be due to shooting with a slower lens.

Doggies
by MarkB

Comment by jomari:
Haha! As well as having humour it's a beautiful image. Ribbon spot from me. 9

Doggies
by MarkB

Comment by tvsometime:
An incredible shot.

Doggies
by MarkB

Comment by Damon:
ha insect porn lol :) sorry it had to be said

Doggies
by MarkB

Comment by Art Roflmao:
Nothing says DNMC like bug porno. ;-)

Doggies
by MarkB

Comment by tnun:
yes

Doggies
by MarkB

Comment by littlemav:
Doggie what???????????????????

Wine Country
by MarkB

Comment by whitewolf:
Nice photo. Can't help but take it all in - It has a great flow. 9