Swarming the Bridge
by Brent_S

Comment by bmartuch:
Great concept. You did a good job with it.

Swarming the Bridge
by Brent_S

Comment by tanguera:
Great colors and shapes.

Swarming the Bridge
by Brent_S

Comment by neophyte:
Great capture!

Swarming the Bridge
by Brent_S

Comment by bauerfan71:
Well lit and well shot. I like that you found a vantage point where the viewer feels like they are also in shadows.

A Contemporary Path
by Brent_S

Comment by CJinCA:
Nice shot Brent - good leading lines and great colors! This should have scored higher.

A Contemporary Path
by Brent_S

Comment by PenelopeK:
Nice leading lines, splashes of color, and great depth of field. I can't make out whether that is moisture on the underside of the foreground railing or a texture inherent in its design, but anyway it is nice and sharp.

Summit in the Cat's Eye
by Brent_S

Comment by CJinCA:
Congrats on your score and I'm sure with different PP you would have scored even higher. Great scene though Brent!

A Contemporary Path
by Brent_S

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
Is this finally a different view of that swoopy Disney building that I keep seeing so much of in challenges? YAY!!!

Summit in the Cat's Eye
by Brent_S

Comment by Brent_S:

Originally posted by PennyStreet: Brent you got an overall score of 6.1. The framing is interesting. It's a nice picture. I don't understand what you have to be embarassed about.

Thanks Penny :-) Well.....what I am embarrassed about is the processing. I spent about 3 minutes PP this image and it shows- I cringed when I looked at it posted and the voting had already begun. I lightened the shadows too much in the sculpture, there was no need to do this and it looks artificial. There was an airplane trail in the upper left corner (long exposure) that I cloned out but left a speck of at the corner of the sculpture and it looks like a nasty sharpening artifact. Some curve adjustments could have removed some of the atmospheric haze. I oversharpened the image and used a bad setting for USM that left an ugly halo around the sculpture and I even applied some sharpening after putting in the black canvas frame which gives it an unappealing halo too. I'm not embarrassed about the scene I captured (I slithered through bushes between a fence to get it), but the finer details of processing here are quite bad and nothing to be proud of.

Summit in the Cat's Eye
by Brent_S

Comment by PennyStreet:
Brent you got an overall score of 6.1.
The framing is interesting. It's a nice picture.
I don't understand what you have to be embarassed about.