Day 26 - Telephone
by nikolaos

Comment by jmritz:
This has great shadows. The lighting would be perfect for a product shot. Wonderful job.

Day 27 - Shell
by nikolaos

Comment by jmritz:
As a last resort you could run around the edge with the blur tool, especially if there are any sharp unnatural edges. Nice interesting shell.

Day 27 - Shell
by nikolaos

Comment by boyd2000:
You can do some easy stuff to start a home studio. I sometimes use a ping-pong ball with a slot cut out to put over an diffuse the flash. I bought a yard of black velvet at a yardage store for a few bucks, and use it for some of my pictures. My studio is wherever in the house I can conveniently set things up. If you want to spend a few more bucks for something more professional search ebay for a couple items I got such as "Pro Photo Softbox Light Tent Shooting Light Cube 24x24" and "2 Studio Strobe/Lighting/Flash Portrait Kit 1" if you can get around your camera's preflash.

Day 28 - Icecream
by nikolaos

Comment by jmritz:
Yum. I've been eating a lot of these lately. I especially like Italian Ice. Nice one.

Day 28 - Icecream
by nikolaos

Comment by Bruce_the_Robert:
I long both for ice cream and for weather in which it would be appropriate to eat it. Right now I have neither (can you tell I'm jealous?). I like how most of it appears frozen except for the tip. Nice.

Day 27 - Shell
by nikolaos

Comment by Bruce_the_Robert:
I think it looks better than you think it does, though there are some points where it looks clipped by the selection tool. You might try softening the brush, or afterwards feathering the selection. At least until you get that small home studio, of course :)

Day 26 - Telephone
by nikolaos

Comment by Bruce_the_Robert:
Good shot, and well handled light. I don't do flashes very well, and right now I don't have anything other than on-camera flash (my old cheap-o will break my camera if I try to use it; different voltage). Excellent ordinary object.

Day 28 - Icecream
by nikolaos

Comment by boyd2000:
Tasty yet harsh looking dessert camera, much like mine from last month that missed the brown ribbon by 1.
I would caution about submitting a DPC entry like this.

Day 27 - Shell
by nikolaos

Comment by boyd2000:
Nice POV, though the lighting seems to make the middle of the shell look soft focus. Good handling of the background.

Day 26 - Telephone
by nikolaos

Comment by boyd2000:
Good lighting, and simple, even composition. There is a peculiar, unknown hot spot at the right end of the phone.