Once upon a time in the middle of winter..
by riversong

Comment:
Whyyyyy was it DQ?! =( This is gorgeous!

Pelicano
by Luguer

Comment:
I feel your pain!!!!! But hey, don't work up too much about it, but I guess you do have to take into consideration that this is an international site and I think the tale you chose was a bit too unknown for alot of the voters and that's a fact, I agree that alot of snapshots seem to have beat your image BUT that's entirely because they chose well known tales =/

"May All Your Dreams Come True"
by goinskiing

Comment:
Woah this has been rather underrated =( I did think it was a lovely set up has a fairy tale quality to it!

A Chance Encounter with the Real Tooth Fairy
by timfythetoo

Comment:
Hahahahahahhaah it's that tattoo that does me... LMAO!!!!! LOVE IT!

A Chance Encounter with the Real Tooth Fairy
by timfythetoo

Comment:
Glad to see it ribbon!!!!! Woooooooooooooo

This was a brilliant idea, well desreved red! Congrats!! *still giggling*

Fairytopia
by Judi

Comment:
Yep was my number 1! ;p Congrats!!!!!!!!!

...as soon as she bit the apple, she sank into unconsciousness...
by booboo_goon

Comment:

Originally posted by kaarissaa: this photo is fricken briliant. hopefully the scoring is high

Thanks for the comment! Your my fave voter by far!!!! ;p Thanks!!

...as soon as she bit the apple, she sank into unconsciousness...
by booboo_goon

Comment:

Originally posted by spencerwood: The DOF looks a little faked, there seems to be a bit of a blur halo around the apple which isn't natural to me. The background looks nice but the apple itself is not in keeping with the rest of the image somehow. A bit too much post processing - its very high contrast, the specular highlights are burned out and the apple is very strongly colour saturated.

I REALLY had a hard time trying to figure out how you can "FAKE" dof?! hahahaha no idea, perhaps using a blur filter in photoshop? Well I can honestly say that's how it was shot, so it's not fake...

There is a bit of a halo on the apple and that was due to feathering during the selection of the apple in photohop, I added a bit of feathering because my selection wasnt exactly SPOT on and afterwards I thought it was ok as my main focus was the poisoned apple, it's meant to be magical so that's why I made it much more saturated than the rest of the image... it was to my personal taste but of course no to every1s like yourself =)

...as soon as she bit the apple, she sank into unconsciousness...
by booboo_goon

Comment:

Originally posted by AP: very clever, superbly composed, and great use of DoF. I rather like the apple looking old, makes it seem like some time has elapsed since she took the bite. But that means shes been lying there dead for a while, maybe thats a little morbid... but i digress... really cool shot, but I think you may have turned off some voters by getting a little bit too grungy/grainy with your editing... its hard to make that work with the DPC crowd..

The grain comes from using a 1600 ISO it was a very dull day and had to shoot indoors!! Also used AE compensation of +1

I gathered some people would notice the apple being old, but amazingly enough at least from the 1s that bothered to leave a comment, most like yourself thought it was a nice touch! hehehehe Which I'm very glad... BUT DAMN the score went down last minute... ah well I am very happy with this finish tho! 2nd PB woooooooooooooooo

Pinhole style
by booboo_goon

Comment:

Originally posted by rhipster: Photoframe 3? Nicely done .

Hahahahahaha yes that's right