by aznym

Comment:
Oh, you stop that! I'm afraid your talent is too distracting. I prefer to look at photographs that I've seen before ... seen over and over and over again. Score: 3/10.

B I R D I E S
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
They're not all that precise. Of course, that's their charm. This is bloody good.
Edges suck. Perhaps I could have put that a little more tactfully ... you know what a diplomat I am normally.

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by krnodil

Comment:
Oh yes. Just fabulous; shape, tone and (subtle) texture. Eucalyptus too! An Aussie tree. So the subtlety was no accident then?

lamp
by GinaRothfels

Comment:
Crikey! We all love that lamp, Gina. I'll swap you for it: Lawnmower? Golf clubs? Half a dozen awful lamps? Name your price.

requiem
by cgino

Comment:
I'm not as stimulated by it as I am with some of your other LB stuff, but I think it might just be that I'm a bit biased (perhaps unreasonably so) against the recent widespread use of texture layers. I will admit they do rescue some middle-of-the-road photographs, but I'm pretty sure that this one's actually a lot better than that! The composition and balance is great, too.

barrow (6 of 31)
by Ecce_Signum

Comment:
Tones! Very nice tones.

Motel California
by Germaine

Comment:
You're not a Private Eye in real life, are you G? Scoping out motels & street corners. I'm starting to hear music when I look at your pictures. Good music ... just like the pictures.

daniel
by ErinM

Comment:
Hard to beat that! It has a very interesting 3-D feel, doesn't it?

It would also be a very fine portrait without the LB ... the 'underlying' photograph (and photography/processing) is superb.

Ode to RKT
by krnodil

Comment:
You've got the trees thing working pretty good! Now try the hot rods.

LB2
by Charlene

Comment:
Nice control! I don't know what you're doubting yourself for ... you seem to have this bendy thing workin' fine. Imagine your (fabulous) Penguins on Ice with a bit of implied motion coming from the Lensbaby effect. Sweet spot centered right on the face, or on the joined hands (not too much blur ... it's too good a pic as it is). You could do that, right? I think LB is best when it makes an already great photograph subtly different, rather than a so-so photograph radically different. You can take great photographs, and you can get that LB effect right where you want it. And that's all there is!