3500 Watts
by Limbo

Comment:
What a brilliant composition... I think that the power of this shot has brought it up in spite of some possible nitpicks... Well done!

Sunset Indulgence
by Strikeslip

Comment:
I think what I like most about this pic is the dropping edges around your fingers which indicate that you are pulling your hand down (and keeping it VERY still) to work with the surface tension of water...

I can't think that that was at all easy....

Truly a masterpeice (of sorts) :).

Lit Bulb
by Zoomdak

Comment:
Great stuff dude!

Message edited by author 2006-07-05 09:23:58.

Friday Afternoon Rush Hour
by ShaneBlake

Comment:
One of the best IR shots I've seen so far... Truly an excellent way of using the filter!

dogcandid2.jpg
by faidoi

Comment:
Very cool expression... I might have cropped to 4:3 ratio... maybe not...

I just had this funny idea... I wonder what this would look like with a fisheye correction... just for laughs...

Fire Walk With Me
by goc

Comment:
Dude, I'm not too keen on your compositon here, but your exposure is sweet! Nice colors!

dunstanburgh-castle_north.jpg
by Falc

Comment:
Holy crap dude! Talk about a pic in SERIOUS need of being uploaded at 720 pixels or more... This thing rocks! er... yeah..!

Leaping Lunatic
by Man_Called_Horse

Comment:
Sweet pic! I might have ditched the socks... maybe those green booties might have given the idea that the guy was barefoot underneath... Or better yet, one green bootie and one bare foot...

Nice lines for the pic... I like how the bottom line is very balanced to give a foundation, but the other lines are all off kilter...

The only photographic suggestion I have might be a reflector to bring him up just a hair... Given your experience, I'd probably best keep that one to myself ;).

Leopard
by SamDoe1

Comment:
Ouch, tough deal shooting handheld at 420mm through glass...

Have you experimented with Neat Image? It's pretty cool if you are gentle with it... It should allow you to get some decent results even up to around ISO 200...

You have a fair number of 'jaggies' in the whiskers... I'm guessing that you resized down in only a few steps?

Hair is a real pain for that...

I have an action that takes my largest images and slices them down 5% at a time like 20 times, then carefully fine tunes down to DPC size... If I need a different size, I use the history and jump back a few steps, then resize down in small increments...

I learned that it was important on my fly pic which had some crazy effects with different numbers of steps... weird moire stuff...

Using the action is the only way to go IMHO because doing it by hand takes ages!

I kinda like a lot about this, but have you considered using multiple layers, bringing out the eyes? Might be fun to brighten just the eyes up... It would certainly change the layout of the pic compositionally...

...Just A Myster-y
by justamistere

Comment:
Man, this is fantastic!

I love this composition and the execution is... well, fantastic!

Ok, so it's noisy as anything and it looks like it's been cropped like a crazy white-tailed bass, but that's hardly your fault...

As might be guessed, I do have a bit of a soft spot for Escher.. ;)

For the challenge, I think you might have been treading on thin ice with that chandelier... technically a light stand with multiple lights is still multiple lights... Same would go for a chandelier I would think...