Dirt Devil in Hyperdrive
by Alex_Europa

Comment by bobnospum:
Cool ideas and I do like all the wild colors. There is an abstract quality that is kind of neat. The composition needs something as the dirt devel tip ends up totally centered. The DOF is a bit narrow as well. Did you try any with wider DOF to see what the effect is?

Dirt Devil in Hyperdrive
by Alex_Europa

Comment by vawendy:
I'm not sure I care that much for the picture. Perhaps it's because there's so much pattern to the carpet--I think a simpler carpet would have created a much stronger picture. And for some reason, the orange on the dirt devil is distracting (I would have been tempted to crop it off.) But I love the creativity! Excellent job of thinking outside the box and yet meeting the challenge! 7

Dirt Devil in Hyperdrive
by Alex_Europa

Comment by ace flyman:
This screams movement. Cool.

Dirt Devil in Hyperdrive
by Alex_Europa

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
"I dinna can push her any further cap'n! Oh, me poor bairns!"

(Never understood what a "bairn" was...)

Dirt Devil in Hyperdrive
by Alex_Europa

Comment by bvy:
Fun stuff. Great idea and well executed.

Dirt Devil in Hyperdrive
by Alex_Europa

Comment by BeefnCheez:
too many bad reflections

Dirt Devil in Hyperdrive
by Alex_Europa

Comment by liberty:
LOL good idea...wished to have seen it more focused, 5.

Dirt Devil in Hyperdrive
by Alex_Europa

Comment by Deen:
the color looks so joyful :)

Dirt Devil in Hyperdrive
by Alex_Europa

Comment by KarenNfld:
Pretty neat.

Nickelback
by Alex_Europa

Comment by JulietNN:
hi from teh shot club

I am really surprised that this finished so low. I liked this very much.

Artistically, it is very clever. Technically there are a couple of things that are wrong. I think for this challenge having the face of the coin showing up a little more would have helped. There is a lot of grain and some sensor dust going on.

One tip for the blac and white is to saturate or use selective colours and play around with those before you change it to black and white, you will be surprised at what details come out this way. Unsharp mask would have also helped to bring out some details.

the shallow DOF is a great choice for this.

Yo-Spiff gave you an excellent comment below.

I would love to see you redo this shot.