Watering
by UrfaK

Comment by jdannels:
I really like the light the way it glistens off his head and brings out the drops, its like you get all the effects of contre jour with out the glare. It reminds me of a world trapped off from the modern by a brick wall.
A little PP tip to make rain drops really pop out. Copy the image then do a high pass filter at 10 pixels. Filter->Other->High Pass. Then set that layer to hard light and it sharpens the drops. You can mask out the parts you don't want affected. Hope this helps

At all angles
by UrfaK

Comment by booboo_goon:
High key exxxxxxtreeeeeeeeeeeemmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I love it! This is SO graphic-y it works wonders for me, I like how the high key look makes it almost illustrative and the diagnol lines adds dynamic to the shot, especially as it stars off fine and gradually bolds

Watering
by UrfaK

Comment by fixedintime:
Overall I like the image of the man, but the building behind the water doesn't quite fit into the mood of the image for me. The stone and the brick work contrast with that building and I don't think that fits with the story you are telling with the image. For me, and I might be the outlier, I would like a better feel of just what he is using the hose to do. I can't get that from the image.

Watering
by UrfaK

Comment by nikolaos:
The water drops look beautiful in the sun light and the face it lit well. My only concern is the wall which takes half the frame...I have the urge to move it away!

Watering
by UrfaK

Comment by Bud:
Nicely done, there is alot going to keep the attention. The old guy looks like he has character and could be a study by himself.

It is great to have you along on the side challenge.

Watering
by UrfaK

Comment by Ecce_Signum:
Welcome to our little side challenge urfa and please keep your membership up - you know you want to ;)

I'f I'm honest I don't think this is amongst your best B&W work, you have some great B&W images in your porfolio :) am guessing this is telling a story rather than competing for a black and white masters challenge. If thats the case then it does its job well, the brick wall taking up almost half of the image makes a point about space and the location (I wonder whats in the hole made by the missing brick?). I guess the loose stone shows work/rebuilding being done. Now, is he washing the windows? Think you did well with the water and it shows motion well without it being a blurry mess.

See, 5 minutes looking at your picture and (if I'm honest) what first looked boring turns into a good work of social history ;)

Watering
by UrfaK

Comment by SandyP:
What an excellent story this tells. I love it! This is perfect in black and white. Yes, you got your mojo back -- if it was ever missing :)

Snow monkey
by UrfaK

Comment by The_Dentist:
This is my work monitor which is set to high contrast, so most pics don't look as good as they otherwise would. So this one looks a bit too contrasty; I would also say it's slightly over-sharpened.

What's even worse though is what looks like JPEG artifacts on the face. I'm guessing that the square-ish aspect ratio and the sharpened picture resulted in a large file size which forced you to save with a low JPEG quality setting to meet the size requirement. On this contrasty monitor, it kind of shows.

As a suggestion, maybe sharpen the tree less? It both kills your file size and distracts attention from your subject...

At all angles
by UrfaK

Comment by wardmac:
I guess this falls into the abstract world. Birdwise, it falls short of holding interest for me, the birds are just too small and don't seem to be the real subject.

LoveTriangle.jpg
by UrfaK

Comment by Sonifo:
This one looks a little pixelated but I am thinking it is because of the lack of focus and more sharpness used while editing.