Parallel universe
by Neat

Comment:
I love the idea of the two planes, great photo!

... then I saw the Moon
by Pascal

Comment:
This was one mf my favorites, and look how it turned out!

Congrats on the ribbon, very nice image.

Would have worked great for Emotive Landscape too, maybe without the moon :)

The Overseer
by Judi

Comment:
I don't know why this looked so strange to me when I first saw it.

Maybe it was the sepia background.

After stopping by again I thought "Well, this the blue for sure."

So, congrats on the blue :)

Smells like fresh fish
by Pascal

Comment:
This is SO dynamic!

I loved - and feared - this shot.

Congrats on the ribbon!

Celtic Craftsmanship
by Waitingsilence

Comment:

Originally posted by Neat: Whoa for you - two ribbons in two days!~ Loved this shot, and SUPERB EDITING! AND LOOK AT THAT SCORE!! Might take you a while to beat that one :)

I'm a happy boy today!

Funny thing about this shot is that I wasn't supposed to shoot it!

I was shooting video for work, then I saw this man doin' his business and thought it would have been a perfect entry for the challenge, so I switched the camera mode back to photo and quickly composed the shot.

I had only a few seconds to shoot, as I had to go back in video mode for an the medieval parade - which was approaching the main street.

So 85mm, 1/80s, f/1.2, handheld... can't say I was a bit lucky too :)

Regarding the score... now I have a new goal for 2017 :D

Thank you SO much for stopping by!

"Not Today"
by Waitingsilence

Comment:

Originally posted by Cyrilda: Wow, I am very impressed. I would love to know how you put this together. I love this technique. Big Congratulations Woo Hoo!

Thank you Susie!

The idea came to mind pretty easily, since both me and my girlfriend are huge fans of the "post-apocalyptic", both litterature and film.

I was oriented to a "modern" post-apo scenario, at first, but then I switched it to a more "grungy" one.

The grungy texture I used is to emphasize the "danger" feel to the overall picture. My original idea had zombies in it, so... :)

I initially shot this with my 85mm, but I noticed I couldn't quite get the background I wanted; than I switched to the 24-70 at f/2.8, so that I could have the background gradually blurred; this is what I was going for, as I wanted to show the scene, but not making it distracting.

The post-processing is a bit "aggressive", but is what I though would have fit the picture best.
I played mainly with desaturation (shifted green to yellow) and clarity, but not overall clarity, since it would have ebitter the background.

The rest is just grunge texture and sharpening :)

Thank you for your interest in this work :)

"Not Today"
by Waitingsilence

Comment:

Originally posted by vawendy: Huge congrats on your ribbon! Nicely done. :)

Thank you so, so much, Wendy :)

"Not Today"
by Waitingsilence

Comment:

Originally posted by Amedina: Excellent shot and my personal favourite for this contest. Being a "medication" contest, to summit quite the opposite -the absence of it- , was a very creative option. Congrats.

Thank you Alejandro!

What I had in mind here was medication = treatment (so self-healing through medical skills), rather than medication = medicine.

I'm glad this idea paid off :)

"Not Today"
by Waitingsilence

Comment:

Originally posted by P-A-U-L: Incredible work! Must have taken a lot of effort to pull this off. Well it paid off. Congrats!

Thank you so much Paul!

The worst part was driving to the location (1h drive) with a big chance of getting into a heavy rain.

We were lucky, since it rained during the whole trip and stopped just a few minutes before we reached the place, so the rain cleared up the air a bit and I could have the mountains on the background (blurred mountains) instead of a sea of fog and clouds, which would have been great for some nice landscape shots, but not for what I intended to achieve here.

I went to this place a few years ago to shoot something with alexkc, so I thought it would have been perfect for this kind of picture, but I couldn't remember it quite clearly, so I was pretty pleased to see that the background was actually what I needed for this :)

Thank you again!

Sea ground
by Waitingsilence

Comment:
~ This is an underwater shot, I was under a fisherman's net. LITTERALLY shot from the ground up. The light in the top left corner is the sun, not a reflection.

Wish I were more clever in the title choice. This is what happens when you send 1 minute before the deadline.

Cherrs