Under the Bridge
by vawendy

Comment by Melethia:
What a beautiful pigeon shot! Glad to see someone still shoots these guys. I kind of miss them. Congrats on the art gallery nod, too. Off to see your outtakes...

Under the Bridge
by vawendy

Comment by Bear_Music:
So THIS was yours! I gave it an 8! Ridiculously underrated, sheesh. What a refreshing take on the challenge.

Head Games
by vawendy

Comment by Bear_Music:
It was on account of the blurred appendages... Penny didn't like 'em either. Still, a cool pic.

Under the Bridge
by vawendy

Comment by posthumous:
Beautiful color and deft composition.

Posthumous Art Gallery

Detention
by vawendy

Comment by ladyhawk22:
That was always so much fun :-)

Detention
by vawendy

Comment by tanguera:
Love the graininess the dust produces. And the lighting is terrific.

le cochon
by vawendy

Comment by Melethia:
Still one of my favorites of yours!

Detention
by vawendy

Comment by bmartuch:
The lighting on this is perfect. Excellent job. 10

The Star Gazer
by vawendy

Comment by David Ey:
I like it just the way it is, color and all. Even the star movement. Hey, that's what happens with long exposures without special apparatus. The camera to telescope guy is remarkably sharp considering the 35 sec exposure. Much closer to him and he would have likely been blurred. I gave it a 6.

The Star Gazer
by vawendy

Comment by Ann:
The shot is basically good, but I agree with what the others have said about the exposure time and the star trails, and the comment about maybe using a wide angle lens and getting in a lot closer to the guy, so that he has more of the frame, but there is still lots of sky.

The thing that I would add, though, has to do with the white balance. The sky is really orange, and the guy is really purple. Neither color is very natural looking. I think what I'd do is to put an orange gel on the flash, to match the orangeness of the sky (or possibly go even a little more orange than the sky), then compensate for the orange color with white balance. The idea is to get the sky a nice normal nighttime color (or at least what we imagine to be normal), and have the guy maybe a little warmer. It might take some experimentation to get it right.