The Dark Holds Many Fears...
by DrAchoo

Comment by talmy:
Straight out of a horor movie!

Even Distribution
by DrAchoo

Comment by samanwar:
Great photo, the background and the lights are just perfect.

IMG_0330_filtered 2_filtered.jpg
by DrAchoo

Comment by macrothing:
'4', maybe. Although it wasn't 'necessary' to see a cande lit in my opinion, it definitely helped in many shots, or even to be able to discern candlelight (difficult at times), and this 'light' is difficult to distinguish, especially that the light appears to be coming from so close to 'bedding' - long shot to guess there is a 'flame' there. The effect is nice and soft though. edit:typo

Message edited by author 2005-12-19 22:49:16.

Forest Spirits
by DrAchoo

Comment by macrothing:
Gave this a 5. Liked the potential with the textures especially, but as you have said "I had originally wanted a shot which had all 15 lanterns, but there was too much detail and the picture wound up looking unpleasant with lichen covered branches competing with the branches of the background. " - that may have made this better in my opinion, but obviously is not what you were attempting, so it is a matter of 'preference'. The colors and overall feel was nice but again, had more potential, in my opinion.

Forest Spirits
by DrAchoo

Comment by soup:
not too bad a finish. interesting image - the central branch looks like a brontosaurus neck & head

Forest Spirits
by DrAchoo

Comment by theSaj:
I gave it a 7

Forest Spirits
by DrAchoo

Comment by Jutilda:
Honestly, I didn't rate it super high, but I do like the overall feel of it. Soft and interesting. The luminaries are always quite appealing to me. I love your adventure story as much if not more than the photo itself!! What we do to get a shot!! LOL

Forest Spirits
by DrAchoo

Comment by MQuinn:
I like it, I dunno if more candles would have helped or not, maybe more would have given it more depth. Maybe had it be a tad darker so you could see more reflections of light from the candles. This is a great shot technically, and maybe it kinda got looked over. But it is the top 25:)

IMG_0330_filtered 2_filtered.jpg
by DrAchoo

Comment by DrAchoo:
Minimal...this is almost straight out of the camera. Some levels and some neat image to get the noise out.

Forest Spirits
by DrAchoo

Comment by mpeters:
Didn't vote in this challenge but I think this shot was creative, well executed, and without your explanation of 2xRAW conversion would leave me wondering how you held the detail in the hilight areas and the shadows. The green foliage is a perfect complement to the warm tones in the bagged candles. If there is one suggestion I would make it would be to have placed another semi-obscured bag deeper into the BG to enhance the feeling of wanting to follow the lights to their begining.

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