Got Balloons
by Wildcard

Comment by sevilduvarci:
i like how bright the balloons look and how that stand out from the rest of the picture. very nice colours.

Got Balloons
by Wildcard

Comment by Germaine:
Nice retro feel. I like the light on the balloons.

Just Mad About Saffron
by Wildcard

Comment by skewsme:
It looks a bit like human fat when it's heated up. I want to like it but ultimately, I can't find a world to dive into. Maybe needs more filters! ;-)

Just Mad About Saffron
by Wildcard

Comment by yanko:
The most interesting parts for me are the areas that your composition has minimized (i.e. bottom left and top right corners). I'm not sure why you chose the DOF you did but like the composition seems to minimizes the areas that carry far more interest at least to me. I like abstracts that don't try to be a photograph of something or a straight up close up shot and that's what seems to be going on here, IMO.

Message edited by author 2007-06-14 21:08:54.

Dancing on the Edge
by Wildcard

Comment by rinac:
Wonderful. Love the carefree aspect of this. I try to photograph my daughter in pretty much the same way. Images like this are the ones we keep coming back to year after year. Great moments captured as opposed to cutesy posed snapshots.

With the shot of my daughter I used for the DPL Album challenge, I carefully selected the background, copied to a new layer, added lens blur, then used the gradient tool to mask the bottom half. This, in effect, created a wonderful depth of field as well as nicely obscuring the background detail. Try it out and see what happens!

Just Mad About Saffron
by Wildcard

Comment by rinac:
Sticky toffee spill! Hmmm, makes you wonder what goes on in my kitchen... A great abstract, love the colour :)

Dancing on the Edge
by Wildcard

Comment by FireBird:
What windows????? Seriously the distant shoreline does cut your model in half. And the face. I want to see her face. Surely you made machinegun shots of this action. None showed her face? I do love the action though. Nice.

Dancing on the Edge
by Wildcard

Comment by posthumous:
this is fun and pretty and exciting. hair covering her face is a way of showing that she doesn't care what anyone thinks, that she is unaware of being observed (observers just love that!). my only qualm is the houses in the background are kinda ugly. maybe you can smudge away their windows and details. You have to find a better background for this girl!

Just Mad About Saffron
by Wildcard

Comment by posthumous:
it is so difficult to comment on abstracts or justify scores, but I think that's the appeal, to enter a nonverbal zone and perhaps provoke a "pure" response, like music. This is a good one. You just have a knack for abstracts. You make them just complex enough, you vary the texture, you put in little surprises, just like a good instrumental piece. Oh and that bright saffron color... I'm just mad about it!!

When The Wind Drops
by Wildcard

Comment by pineapple:
Revisiting your photo ages after the challenge. I have to say it is quite captivating. The small detail delights.