Solder
by ScottK

Comment by kaizja:
this is so precise

Solder
by ScottK

Comment by justine:
Neat shot. Like this one....cool color and smoke. 8

Rescue Training
by ScottK

Comment by MrAkamai:
Good subject matter but this picture is plagued by either poor focusing or compression. And I might have cropped a bit more off the bottom.

Rescue Training
by ScottK

Comment by GoldBerry:
If the focus were a bit better I could definetly see this in a NG article.

Rescue Training
by ScottK

Comment by jonpink:
bit snap-shotty, but like the composition.

Rescue Training
by ScottK

Comment by lockjawdavis:
Not a lot here to hold our interest.

Rescue Training
by ScottK

Comment by admart01:
Great idea here. Would like to see more of the rescue training (assume it's the spec lower center in the water w/ the helicoper) People watching/waiting don't bring the drama that the rescuing would.

Steel Waves
by ScottK

Comment by Neuferland:
Oh, I like this idea! Very unique and different! The title fits very well but the handle are distracating. I would love to see this with a tighter crop and the blades at the same angle. A 9

Steel Waves
by ScottK

Comment by Kavey:
This one certainly made me look, look and look again. I like the slightly surreal edge it has - both content wise and compositionally.

Steel Waves
by ScottK

Comment by sn4psh07:
An interesting shot with a lot of potential and done in quite a good way. I'm impressed that you successfully managed to limit the amount of chromatic aberrations that you got.

If you could achieve it then I think that you should have attempted to get depth of field of just one knife and throw all the others out of focus. If this was impossible with your camera then maybe you should have tried to get a depth of field so that all of the knives were in focus.

I am okay with the composition that you have, but I do think that you have too much negative space at the top of your picture for a properly balanced image. Also as macro is a fantastic way of isolating just a tiny part of a larger object I was wondering whether or not you had tried a very tight crop of just the blades of the knives? I just held up a couple of pieces of paper to my screen and used one hand to get a very tight crop -- I feel that it makes the picture more interesting and makes it harder to tell what you're looking at. If you have not tried this then I really do suggest that you try it. If I did not explain that very well, then sent me the picture and I will send you back a copy of what I mean.

Good picture with a lot of potential, and well edited. Good luck.