Ancient Egyptian
by jayke

Comment:
Great detail. Well focused and lighting is suprisingly even assuming this was in a museum. Nice use of DOF. I might have cropped a bit more off the left but it is good as is. Border is a bit thick.

Diversion
by Remie

Comment:
Good use of negative space, sharp details and stark contrast in b/w.

My Uncle Emmet's Farm
by coolhar

Comment:
Very nice crop job! I see others thought the same thing. :) Excellent use of negative space with the snow. Great details and a much better overall look and feel. Two thumbs way up! :)

Mirrored walkway: an ant's perspective
by MrAkamai

Comment:
Thanks for everyones comments and votes on this. After I submitted this, I almost changed my mind and wanted to unsubmit. Good thing I forgot to do that otherwise I would have never known how many people liked it! :) I was quite suprised, to be honest.

To answer a few questions, this was completely outside. If you could look up from the walkway, you would see that there isn't a roof. As such, I'm not sure how I could change the lighting without setting up my own lighting. It doesn't directly face the east or west so that may prove difficult. I have other pictures of this same area that I will post to my portfolio later so you can get a better idea what this area looks like.

As for the title, yeah I know it's a long shot as an ant's POV but it was a last minute idea. The only reason I chose that last bit is because my titles (up until now) have been rather boring. I decided to throw ant in there since I actually had the camera on the ground when I took the picture. Maybe if I included some of the walkway it might have been more of a realistic title.

Anywho, glad you all liked it!

Wedding day
by MrAkamai

Comment:
Many thanks to all who submitted comments about this entry. I really appreciate the constructive comments that everyone posted. I learned a lot about this camera and what I can do with Photoshop to get the effect I want. However, not all imperfections were fixable (due to lack of skills) or were fixed (issues mentioned in the comments). It does take a second or even fourth or fifth eye to see everything that should be fixed to make an entry worthy of a ribbon. Now that the ruleset has changed dramatically, I think I can "kick it up a notch" so to speak for upcoming challenges and hopefully push myself further in both photography and Photoshop skills.

When I took this picture, I didn't have a challenge in mind. I was just taking pictures for the sake of taking pictures. When I was browsing the files of the new couple, I thought about submitting this one. First I made the entire image black and white. I was happy with that until I added some uniform and monochrome noise. Then I thought about isolating the roses and leaving those red (except for the chromatic abberations which are a pain to fix). Slowly I came up with the results you see above. I wish I had left the noise in, however, like laheff suggested. Although I don't know if I would have used as much as she suggested, some noise might have been better than none.

Again, thanks for all the great suggestions and comments! :)

Inside a 'Quantum Fireball' Hard drive.
by kaush

Comment:
Great detail of the armatures and other hardware.

Stuck in Tonka
by snowflake

Comment:
Nice details even on the snow which is tough. However, the flash seems a bit harsh.

Gaggiano, the banks
by paolobnr

Comment:
Awesome scene yet erie. Well composed. Not sure what is to the left and right of the frame constraints but I think this would have looked better in a landscape arrangement vs portrait. 9

Telegraph Hill
by Pep Ventosa

Comment:
This is very nice! I like how the double yellow leads you up to the Transamerica building. Interesting concept.

From Inside The Pill Bottle
by cshep

Comment:
Nice execution of this idea. Seems to be popular but thisis one of the better versions. I think I would have preferred it in color but that is negligible. 9