A Glass of Cola
by Long

Comment:
wow! That's some amazing light effects. I can't say I much like the top half of the picture. What did you do to it?

Bartender......there's a FLY in my drink !!
by ShutterPug

Comment:
I was thinking about doing this exact thing with a fly in a drink and a big nasty bug on the surface of a bowl of soup.

Nice idea, Nicely done. Very well let. My challenge suffered greatly from bad reflections in glass. You managed to deal with that very well.

The Cook's Fortifier
by quiet_observation

Comment:
This is a really nice picture, but I wish it didnt' have that can in the back. Also, the lemon isn't very nice looking.

The colours are great. You might try to play with curves to get the background to full black, or possibly contrast, which might bring out even more pink and green.

Great Choices!

Force the safety on
by oskar

Comment:
Well, it's an interesting idea, that's for sure. I wonder if it was a lucky shot or you knew that it would look like that.

I think photographically it suffers from shallow DOF. Or perhaps motion blur if that bubble has as much wind as it looks.

It must be fairly difficult to get a bubble to look like that without breaking.

PS. Don't be too bummed out about the commenting. It's a pretty neat picture.

DragonFlyWeb_0008.jpg
by eschelar

Comment:
Updated to this:

Grass Seed
by cornettcag

Comment:
This is interesting. I like the green throughout and I like the synchronized bend. I wonder if you have tried playing with rotation to see if there are other positions where these angles might be more effective?

Also, it might have been nice if the common shape in the bend was highlighted a little more by taking the picture from a different angle and slightly more on the side of the grass.

Nice focus and nice detail, I bet this really pops at higher resolutions.

100_2169 copy geno.jpg
by taterbug

Comment:
What beautiful lighting. I'm not sure if this is taken with a diffraction filter, soft focus or just a little motion blur. The effect is largely the same. You have evoked a feeling of a minstrel strumming a gentle lullaby in a dark bedroom, perhaps that of a young child, lit by a night light or something.

I wonder if this effect might even be heightened by a slight drop in brightness to really give it a gentle feel. The light on the hand is just a bit strong.

Thanks for posting this pic. It's a great style that I hope one day I might find a situation to imitate.

Silo
by taterbug

Comment:
Hey, Neat capture! What an interesting subject. I like your treatment of the tones. I wonder if you could get in there with a burning tool to try to take care of some of the overexposed areas near the top and on the branches.

Maybe a little bit of a grunge treatment could bring out a feeling of disuse and lack of maintenance and TLC.

It's pretty neat as is, just trying to give some ideas.

Euphoria
by taterbug

Comment:
Powerful counterstatement. Looks like a junkie tripping on a staircase. This is of course the end result. I have seen it very close to me. The illusion of happiness that is clung to until death.

I like the washed out feeling and the leaves in the corners of the stairs. Very thematic. Very powerful to the right audience.

pulliam-hall
by tsheets

Comment:
Nice picture. Beautiful colours and a statuesque building. The sky seems a bit washed out in comparison with the rest of the picture?

I really like the shadows from the trees.

The little extra bit on the building on the right seems a little strange. Could the pic be cropped in a few mm and slice to the edge of the larger building right at the end?

Really well done on the A80, one of my favorite P&S cams.