Insomnia: Watching the clock
by saiphfire

Comment:
One of my first ever photos! Please don't judge me too harshly... I've gotten better, I swear! :)

Message edited by author 2007-04-01 08:39:44.

The Prophet
by Joey Lawrence

Comment:
lol, I JUST searched for the Cannon 85mm 1.8 lens and then read the last comment you got from Mark Simms... The pictures are amazing.

My Beautiful Belle
by TheStick

Comment:
Awww, looks just like my dog Bryher when I got him! Now he's 2 1/2. See him here: www.dogster.com/?67522 (he's also featured in many of my portfolio pictures).

As for technical comments - the picture is a bit out of focus, the background is distracting, and there are a few color problems. I'd lighten shadows, darken highlights, and increase both midtone and overall contrast. Then turn down the saturation a bit (you might even desat the magenta channel completely). The background isn't great - I personally often like backgrounds in shots to give them context, but by and large the DPC voters don't (I've been bashed many a time) so it might be better to take a lower angle and get only the sky behind the dog or put the dog in front of something more neutral (like a wall). Even though I like stuff in the background, this one is problematic because it's so much brighter than the dog that it steals attention - you might want to burn it to make it less noticable, or apply a blur effect to it (but select out the dog first so the dog doesn't get more blurred). Then the photo needs some sharpening - it would probably be most effective to sharpen just the face and chest, but USM over the whole thing would be okay, too. In the future, this type of picture would work best when the dog is looking at the light rather than backlit because you lose his/her features (you could also use a reflector, but if your dog is like mine, who has time to set one up when the dog's running all over).

Red the light and dark the night, I feel my dawn is near. ("Embryo")
by donenright

Comment:
A little too dark, IMO.

dogs of war
by roba

Comment:
Dogs?

The Final Cut (Waters departing Pink Floyd)
by De Sousa

Comment:
One of the technically best pictures for sure. I don't love the lighting on the drain stopper, but that would have been hard to get right.

"Goodbye Blue Sky"
by FleaNZ

Comment:
Why include the streetlight? Was there anything you could have done that was not lit that would have given a silouette (sp?)?

Careful with that axe, Eugene
by patry

Comment:
Uhh, is there ALREADY gore on the axe? Ew. :)
Focus is a little soft and there's some noise on the wall.

Echoes
by adine

Comment:
Nice idea. I would have liked to see the same amount of space on either side of the window, though... i.e. a tighter crop on the right and possibly a vertical orientation.

Wish You Were Here
by terje

Comment:
To me the sky is a little bit overexposed, but I understand why in order to catch a few details on the man. This might have been fixable with tone mapping, but I don't know how to do it, so I'm not sure.