Ray of light
by LevT

Comment:

Originally posted by raish: Did you go there to teach them about architecture? Heh - these are seriously good shots. I hope I can get something worthwhile next week (28/10 - 5/11 Firenze Napoli Roma)

are you kidding me? teaching italians architecture is like preaching to the pope :)
Firenze, Napoli, Roma... oh yes, you'll get a lot worthwile! make sure you go to pompei when you are in Napoli, it's close and very interesting

SP Day 11
by Melethia

Comment:
This is a great shot, who needs these cheap photoshot tricks!

Keeping Warm
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
deceptively simple, but excellent portrait! The only small critique: feels like an indoor studio shot which kinda contradcts the winter clothings.

Portal
by Giorgio

Comment:
lovely processing

Enchanted
by Brad

Comment:
wow

A simple view
by Melethia

Comment:
Very nice Deb! I have to get me a real wide angle lens! :)

For the Queen
by Tuckersmom

Comment:
I love the grain - very fitting for this great composition.

Whisper Wings
by Elvis_L

Comment:
Thanks for posting the details of post-processing! Great imagination and a photoshop technique to match.

Just a smile
by Brad

Comment:
fantastic editing job!

Mirage
by LevT

Comment:
Thanks for all the comments!
Obviously I've seen the biggest problem with it, that the bench is not parallel to the horizon line. I thought at the time there was nothing I could do about it short of moving the bench parallel to the view and re-shooting the photo, which was out of the realm of possibility :). How wrong was I! It just occured to me much later that I could simply use Transform option in Photoshop to straighten it out. Took me all about 10 sec to do it, and here is the result

Live and learn... Photoshop. I think I lost at least half a point on this stupid mistake...

By the way, this is another shot of the same Island of San Giulio

What a beautiful place!

Message edited by author 2006-10-08 12:00:00.