Entrance to the Hearth
by grayo

Comment by smyk:
Tres bien Grayo. Une tres bonne idee et comme Greetmir, la transition du noir au gris est tres bien. Je n'ai pas grand chose a rajouter apart le fait que tu fais du bon travail. Continue comme ca!

Entrance to the Hearth
by grayo

Comment by Greetmir:
Yeah ... English is not your mother tongue, I presume since you said hearth instead of heart, but that took nothing away from the photo for me. Unless you really meant the english word hearth as a double entendre but probably not.

The person that said the hot spot on your knuckle should have been burned in, the guy with no camera, must have missed the fact that this was a Basic Editing Rules Challenge that does not permit that. Besides ... that is surely what the knuckle would have looked like IRL and doesn't NEED to be fixed even if it WAS an Advanced Editing Rules Challenge IMO.

I LOVE the transition with the VERY dark background to the sweater to the speckled grey undershirt.

The only fault that I can find here is that the focus could be a TAD sharper and not so soft (a touch of Unsharp Mask might have made that not so obvious?) and that the bottom eighth of the image could have been lopped off for a more dynamic image.

All that said. I think this is a very warming and poignant image.

Entrance to the Hearth
by grayo

Comment by OrionThe Hunter:
The hot spot on top knuckle should be burned in ( darkened )a little

Entrance to the Hearth
by grayo

Comment by lucy53:
Very good picture

Entrance to the Hearth
by grayo

Comment by Claya:
Hearth?

Entrance to the Hearth
by grayo

Comment by metzgarpaul:
kind of a bland photo..
nothing really grabs my attention...
i think it might have been great if the lighting was not so studio..but more creative!

fire is dead
by grayo

Comment by Otvertka:
Good shot! I like the color too.

fire is dead
by grayo

Comment by TonyT:
Great 1st entry. Color is good and so is the composition. Take what you have learned in this challenge and apply it to the next ones. I am sure your scores will rise quickly.

fire is dead
by grayo

Comment by MichaelC:
Well done.

You beat my first score of 3.9196 We all start like that (except for the people from Iceland).

Only took me about 18 months and 8o more challenges before I reached my peak (so far) with a 4th place. I have a feeling it won't take you as long.

Keep up the good work

fire is dead
by grayo

Comment by cpanaioti:
I like the composition and the smoke trail created by the match. The red is a good choice of colour as well.

I think what may have let it down a bit is that it seems a bit dark. Brightening it up a bit I think would help.

Keep shooting.

;o)