November
by tnun

Comment by glennc:
An interesting composition. Perhaps a little too dark. The wine looks a bit lifeless. Some playing with DOF would make the background fade better.

Evening Rounds
by tnun

Comment by lynnesite:
Well seen! And cropped/processed. Personally I would crop a wee bit more from the top to eliminate that stanchion top left, and it would pull the attention more fully onto your subject. I think this was under-rated!

tattoo
by tnun

Comment by lynnesite:
I like how you shot from down low, and yes how the brand is framed by the grasses. High contrast but not too high.

Playing by Ear
by tnun

Comment by lynnesite:
It certainly is a compelling thumbnail! :D

Lady
by tnun

Comment by lynnesite:
Toning into black and white was a good choice on a lot of levels: the mystery, and of course the grey that is yellow-toned in the tail and maybe elsewhere. The toning keeps our eyes away from the typical pasture unkemptness of the horse, and turns ordinary things like a woodpile and clouds into magical bits. Congrats on your score!

Pup Star (Glasses challenge, 758239)
by tnun

Comment by nutzito:
it does meet the challenge
not crazy about the lighting here

Saturday
by tnun

Comment by MelonMusketeer:
What an oddity. It's strangely honest, but almost charcoal drawing "artsy" in appearance. There are a lot of details to wander around in within the frame, just as there is in real life. The low angle makes it seem that I would be either lying on the floor, or very short to get this perspective.
Except for the television, the overall scene gives me a "50's ish" appearance or sort of like a chrome plated Norman Rockwell scene that didn't quite get the right moment.
It's different, making it ok with me.

Saturday
by tnun

Comment by tnun:
Kali
Nikon D70s 02/06/2009 05:18:34 PM
I can't decided whether I hate it or love it... I think I'm leaning more towards the first. It's obnoxious at first but the more I look the more I see and like... but I have to move on.

ubique
Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1K 02/04/2009 04:45:20 PM
I'd have adored this without the solarized processing. I mean really loved it ... it would have been my No 1 pick. There must be a reason why you did what you did (been reading a Man Ray book, perhaps). I'll be hoping to learn what it was.

chromeydome
Nikon D90 02/03/2009 10:07:02 PM
If this was a charcoal drawing, I would be incredibly impressed. As a photograph, though, I find the post-processing to be a bit much, dominating everything else, sort of shouting at me, and I find myself wondering what this REALLY looked like. A very subtle application of this processing might have made the depicted environment, people, pets Snap to life.

undieyatch
Olympus E-10 02/03/2009 09:34:04 AM
Couple w/pets, Saturday lounging at home: in quasi 16x9 aspect ratio processed to a rare editing result - a rather harsh tone mapped combination of positive & negative.

Bear_Music
Canon EOS-20D 02/02/2009 12:49:31 PM
Whoot! I can't say I exactly *like* this image, but it for sure provokes a reaction from me, and that reaction is *NOT* "What a piece of crap!"; far from it in fact. I'm impressed by the chaos, the immediacy of the scene. There's a lot to study, it involves me quite seriously. It's very strange how the second person, on the couch at left, exists only as a pair of pants crossed at the knees: I can't make out any body at all. it doesn't even obviously show shoes for cripesake. A very close examination shows a tiny bit of face eclipsed by the cushion, but I have to look close, so it's very mysterious.

The processing... I don't know... It's integral to what you were after, I know, in the sense that the highly-detailed, unnaturally flat tone mapping look is what gives us the in-your-face chaos-of-detail, and I'm good with that. What sort of bugs me (except that I admire it too) is the tone inversion. I hate it, but I admire it. IN the end, I'm wondering what this looks like not inverted, and with very muted colors, like you'd get if you did the b/w conversion and faded that layer to maybe 40% or so.

I'm quite bugged, also, by the relatively small variation from true horizontal. It comes across as slipshod to me. I'd rather see a true level or a more obvious tilt...

LydiaToo
Canon EOS-40D 02/01/2009 09:06:37 PM
I like the scene and the crop.. .I hate the processing. *sigh*

tnun
Panasonic DMC-FZ10 01/31/2009 11:18:40 PM
I like the dogs.

digifotojo
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT 01/31/2009 11:07:52 PM
I think the guy is watching TV but it's hard to tell. In fact, it's hard to look at this image for any length of time, it makes me downright irritable.

Les_Feck
Sony DSLR-A100K 01/31/2009 10:56:23 PM
Brutal processing. Like a sledgehammer. This is a nanosecond before total white out. After the explosion; but before the cloud. A negative of normalcy before annihilation. Too late to duck and cover.

Message edited by author 2009-01-31 23:25:12.

posthumous
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT 01/31/2009 09:41:52 PM
Who's the guy sitting on the couch? Why isn't he watching television? Does he think he's better than me?

BAMartin
Canon EOS-40D 01/31/2009 04:43:09 PM
There is much to see and absorb in this image, unfortunately all I can really grasp is the processing. This might be a little too far over the edge even for me.

cerberus
by tnun

Comment by colorcarnival:
heh! just saw this now. you are funny. nice doggy! lol actually i like what the processing did to the background. it's cool that you can see some leaves. almost like a forest in a blizzard, with a crazy dog running amok. :D

february
by tnun

Comment by colorcarnival:
i think the stark black and white contrast works perfect for a winter scene like this. It adds to that outdoors cold kind of feeling.