Surreal fire on ice
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Comment by lkn4truth:
CRITIQUE CLUB COMMENT:

A visually arresting photograph! The moment I opened the photo it had high score written all over it.

POST PROCESSING

The colors are incredible, great choice to adjust the hue and saturation in RAW. In a "Fire" challenge the obvious colors are reds and yellows and your choice of purple tones really sets this apart. It's a gamble for you to do this but it really paid off. Excellent use of dodge and burn..it really makes the colors pop.

IMAGE QUALITY

The image quality is sharp and crisp...very clean. I love it.

COMPOSITION

The composition of the photo is good. The dark space above is ALMOST a bit too much in my opinion but in this case I think it's fine. I'm a little distracted by the lower left corner with the bright spot on the ground. My eye keeps going there to try and figure out what it is and that's bothering me.

SUBJECT CHOICE

My biggest gripe, if any, is that I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking at and that distracts me. The colors are incredible and standing back I have to say I like the image but then I keep getting bothered by "what is it?" The other drawback is that I'm not sure this picture demonstrates "fire" all that well. Because I can't tell what I'm really looking at I'm having a hard time seeing the "fire" aspect. You could have lost some points in the voting from those who thought you weren't really meeting the challenge. Obviously this didn't hurt you a lot as you scored very high.

Over all an outstanding shot. Congratulations.

Surreal fire on ice
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Comment by graphicfunk:
A very impressive image. Its only drawback being that it is too artistic for general viewing. You have my highest accolades. Congratulations on your top 20 finish.

Surreal fire on ice
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Comment by FloydianS/ip:
Great deviation.

Surreal fire on ice
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Comment by Loki:
Wow! That's crazyness! Good capture. How did you do that? Is that dry ice?

Surreal fire on ice
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Comment by TheStick:
This is soo cool!

Surreal fire on ice
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Comment by Nuzzer:
Lovely effect - the title sums it up well

Surreal fire on ice
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Comment by Louison:
Surreal is the word. Excellent colors. Did you invert them?

Surreal fire on ice
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Comment by talikf:
This looks strange and cool, good job.

Surreal fire on ice
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Comment by graphicfunk:
Love it! Bump.

Surreal fire on ice
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Comment by klstover:
Wow, this purple shot in a sea of reds and oranges is pretty nifty. Plus I really love the "surreal" or abstract nature of it. I keep wanting to figure out if that's a hand in the bottle-shaped ice in the middle. That's a bit distracting to me visually, but is interesting to look at.

Technically the only thing I notice is the gray area to the left of the middle ice piece. Looks like you played around with colors and had to desaturate one that was not working. I wouldn't vote down for the "is that a hand" thing - even though distracting, this IS after all understood to be surreal - but I do feel I have to mark down a tiny bit for the gray. It just detracts too much, unfortunately.

But with the beautiful purple swirls and beautifully arranged ice on top of a nicely done background, the visual impact was such that this is definitely one of my favorites. So don't get me wrong about the "marking down" bit... this still got a great score from me.