Oh no!!
by Seanranney

Comment:
Thanks guys!! The ribbon really surprised me, sure wasn't expecting it. This turned out to be a lucky shot, I practiced with a tennis ball for a bit to get the timing down, and went through one cup and one ceramic angel before this one. This was the one and only cut that we filled with water, although we had a few more in reserve if needed (which my son subsequently smashed anyway - gotta love the dollar store). Shot outside with a flash on the left and a reflector on the right, with a black piece of paper for the background. Teh water inside the cup had red food coloring.

Enjoying being a part of the community, and love seeing everybody's work.

California State Capitol
by Seanranney

Comment:
Thanks for the feedback and votes everybody. I agree with the comments, when I first processed this there was a bit of detail in the building, enough to make out some texture in the trees and the pillars of the building. Unfortunately my shots seem to show up quite a bit darker on other peoples devices so it got a bit heavier (great description, BTW), going to have to do some more adjusting to my monitor to get consistency. The hot spot of the sun was intentional, figured the light would balance with the dark, although I would have preferred it to be slightly more to the right. Still trying to figure out sharpening and noise reduction, so will work on those halos.

Coming of Age
by Seanranney

Comment:
Thanks for the feedback guys, I was wondering how people would react to this. This wound up being a different shot than I envisioned, so realize that it wasn’t really a landscape, but was hoping people would get the emotion I was looking to portray (disgust at a kid with cigarettes). And yes, it was staged so the kid wasn’t really smoking. I think he was more nervous about being around cigarettes than I was!!