Mirrored walkway: an ant's perspective
by MrAkamai

Comment by Imagineer:
Very dynamic view and an interesting visual spectacle too. Well composed, nicely lit and perfect focus.

Mirrored walkway: an ant's perspective
by MrAkamai

Comment by MrAkamai:
Thanks for everyones comments and votes on this. After I submitted this, I almost changed my mind and wanted to unsubmit. Good thing I forgot to do that otherwise I would have never known how many people liked it! :) I was quite suprised, to be honest.

To answer a few questions, this was completely outside. If you could look up from the walkway, you would see that there isn't a roof. As such, I'm not sure how I could change the lighting without setting up my own lighting. It doesn't directly face the east or west so that may prove difficult. I have other pictures of this same area that I will post to my portfolio later so you can get a better idea what this area looks like.

As for the title, yeah I know it's a long shot as an ant's POV but it was a last minute idea. The only reason I chose that last bit is because my titles (up until now) have been rather boring. I decided to throw ant in there since I actually had the camera on the ground when I took the picture. Maybe if I included some of the walkway it might have been more of a realistic title.

Anywho, glad you all liked it!

Mirrored walkway: an ant's perspective
by MrAkamai

Comment by dagaleaa:
a lot of interesting angles....I like it!

Mirrored walkway: an ant's perspective
by MrAkamai

Comment by lindsay:
Whoah! Dizzying. I can hardly tell which way is up!

Mirrored walkway: an ant's perspective
by MrAkamai

Comment by banmorn:
well you may not have been quite low enough to present an ant's point of view and if an ANT's the field of view is far to great and too well defined....that, of course is neither here nor there cause the picture is really well seen and shot and like the line contrasts from the wall to the mirror, the distorted reflections and the curves....so great picture, title could use some work....and since I usually suck at titles: 10

Mirrored walkway: an ant's perspective
by MrAkamai

Comment by Coley:
Nice take on the challenge

Mirrored walkway: an ant's perspective
by MrAkamai

Comment by Jaguar:
it a good perspective, but I can't quite make it out.

Mirrored walkway: an ant's perspective
by MrAkamai

Comment by Fayech:
very cool image. love the lines and shapes in it. border adds a nice touch.

Mirrored walkway: an ant's perspective
by MrAkamai

Comment by piwoguy:
A very nice abstract piece. You've integrated shading and curves nicely. The overall feel is one of slight mystery, due to the composition.

Wedding day
by MrAkamai

Comment by MrAkamai:
Many thanks to all who submitted comments about this entry. I really appreciate the constructive comments that everyone posted. I learned a lot about this camera and what I can do with Photoshop to get the effect I want. However, not all imperfections were fixable (due to lack of skills) or were fixed (issues mentioned in the comments). It does take a second or even fourth or fifth eye to see everything that should be fixed to make an entry worthy of a ribbon. Now that the ruleset has changed dramatically, I think I can "kick it up a notch" so to speak for upcoming challenges and hopefully push myself further in both photography and Photoshop skills.

When I took this picture, I didn't have a challenge in mind. I was just taking pictures for the sake of taking pictures. When I was browsing the files of the new couple, I thought about submitting this one. First I made the entire image black and white. I was happy with that until I added some uniform and monochrome noise. Then I thought about isolating the roses and leaving those red (except for the chromatic abberations which are a pain to fix). Slowly I came up with the results you see above. I wish I had left the noise in, however, like laheff suggested. Although I don't know if I would have used as much as she suggested, some noise might have been better than none.

Again, thanks for all the great suggestions and comments! :)