New Year's eve - 2005
by burtct

Comment by GolferDDS:
Nice idea. A new beginning. Well done.

The brakeman on an old-time rollercoaster
by burtct

Comment by dahkota:
I think this works as he is singled out by something much more effective than DOF - emotion. The facial expression tells it all. Lots of sharpening artifacts but I figre had to have high ISO to get this stop action moment.

The brakeman on an old-time rollercoaster
by burtct

Comment by tonyv:
The contrast between his closed mouth and all the open-mouthed screams around him is wonderful.

The brakeman on an old-time rollercoaster
by burtct

Comment by 1olddawg:
Was very impressed for the first while until I really studies the false screams. Well orchestrated image lol. Good job overall, just the right amount of lighting without added sunlight glare and some nice natural shadows of faces.

New Year's eve - 2005
by burtct

Comment by cfischl:
great lighting...you should try this in black and white

The brakeman on an old-time rollercoaster
by burtct

Comment by macrothing:
7 - Good unique capture. Criticism; difficult, as this is likely fully zoomed both camera and pp, and I can just discern the quality beginning to deteriorate as is (some noise/grain/pixelated or possible resizing/jpeg loss issues). Colors are good, composition good, possibly a more finely tuned crop especially bottom left, but difficult. Depending what you had to work with, possibly incorporating a little more above 'The brakeman' may have given this something extra (and helped size/quality wise), but not sure, works good as is compositionally. Up to 7 from 6, mainly for the 'unique factor/capture'.

The brakeman on an old-time rollercoaster
by burtct

Comment by sherpet:
Good acton shot, but they all seem to stand out, but maybe the guy in purple sleevless jacket stands out the most.....

New Year's eve - 2005
by burtct

Comment by ShutterPug:
I love the golden tones of this image. The sun rays are outstanding.

New Year's eve - 2005
by burtct

Comment by smyk:
nice sun rays. makes the shot that much more interesting

New Year's eve - 2005
by burtct

Comment by mycelium:
well, for the purposes of the legality of entering this photo, I hope the title is inaccurate - since NYE 2005 is in 2004 :)

Beautiful picture - great job capturing the full tonal range from black to white. It must have been tough to control this exposure and bring out the color and detail so well in PP.