WWII camera hack
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
Hah, excellent!

Poof
by Shutter-For-Hire

Comment:
Hell of a long explanation for breaking lightbulbs and taking pictures of them, man. Nice shot.

nothing between the windows
by posthumous

Comment:
Balko gave you a 5. He gave whiterook's shot a 7. You do realize that the pain ends when you stop running face first into the wall, yes?

Alice in Gothland
by yanko

Comment:
Great stuff. The one where she's dragging the tv is still a fav.

sinking...
by IreneM

Comment:
I don't get the message you were trying to convey at all. The coin doesn't appear to be sinking and I don't see how the water drop adds to the idea of currency or economies sinking. It almost looks like the coin was just set there to give some sort of generic theme relevance to what is otherwise a water drop shot.

An injection of liquidity
by MilesW

Comment:
Very creative and an original concept.

Should have scored a lot higher, but for this dumb mass of chimps who twitch and salivate as they vote 10's on water drop shots challenge after challenge after challenge.

Good stuff, your effort paid off.

tunnel.jpg
by rlewis

Comment:
- the image has nothing to say. There's no story that I'm picking up by looking at it, no strong sense of any particular mood, no point being conveyed to me by the photographer via the photograph.

- The composition makes the tree in the center of the image the focal point. The tree is hard to make out and is not in sharp focus.

- There are spots of overexposed (or nearly overexposed) sky showing through the trees.

- Apart from the stark difference between tunnel shadow and the rest of the scene, overall contrast in the image is somewhat lacking. Perhaps a function of shooting directly into the bright light coming through the trees, or maybe it was a less than ideal time of day to be shooting at.

- I think there's too much negative space. Maybe crop it tighter, or try and recover some more detail inside the tunnel via processing.

All of that said, your instinct to pull it was correct. It's not a strong image and the fact that you could sense that is great and most important to you as a photographer.

The Gathering
by karenk

Comment:
Grats!!

The_Man_V.jpg
by david_c

Comment:

Originally posted by david_c: It's like they were the same guy, or something. :-)

Shhhh, shhhh, shhhhhhhhh.

The_Man_V.jpg
by david_c

Comment:

Originally posted by geoffb: No, it doesn't only apply to an ambient-only situation. Why don't you go try it, as that seems to be the only way you'll be convinced. Set your camera and strobe up however you want; just make sure to have areas that are clearly ambient-lit and strobe-lit. Now, open or close the aperture 2 stops, while leaving everything else the same. You'll notice it affects EVERYTHING.

Yes, Geoffb, changing the aperture changes EVERYTHING as you say. EVERYTHING being the TOTAL EXPOSURE OF THE IMAGE which is THE SUM OF AMBIENT AND STROBE LIGHT. Changing the aperture does not and can not CHANGE THE AMOUNT OF AMBIENT LIGHT PRESENT IN THE OVERALL EXPOSURE. Only a progressively slower shutter speed will allow THE RATIO OF STROBE LIGHT TO AMBIENT LIGHT in the OVERALL EXPOSURE to increase in the favor of ambient light as the length of the exposure time is increased.