cold light

Amazing image ! How can something so simple be so beautiful ! A real eye opener...

Cute & clever

Really nice.... Interesting to see the cold shift of the light. I think it would be nicer if the blue/black graininess in the background behind the candles could be softened.

Thank you for any comment / rating

Doesn't work too much for me. I'd have cropped it tighter. Also the colors looks kitsch to me.

Just a matter of personal taste...

I like it too.

 

It does look lopsided to me, though. About a 3 degree tilt to left should fix it.

 

very nice Jean, congratulations...

Would like it more if it was straightened. You could do that in PS without too much hassle.

Simply wonderful picture. I can feel the coldness of the snow and the warmth of the candle flames.

Thank you for your (warm) comments, I have replaced the original picture with one where the horizontal is reestablished, I guess that was at least a poinr all of us can agree with...thanks again, Jean

 

For the record I attach the original pic not corrrected from tilt

here is the original pic

I like the composition and the "did he shoot that on EIR?" effect. I like the feeling of cold that is delivered by the color balance you chose. That aspect of the photograph is very effective.

 

BUT

 

In spite of all this, I like the thumbnail better than the full size picture, because the damn CCDs in digital cameras don't seem to behave nicely with odd light sources! I love the effect of the composition, and it is disappointing to see the blocking-up and graininess in the full size pic.

 

I wonder, if you used slow saturated film and a tripod, perhaps even color infrared (EIR), would it turn out differently? The picture-postcard effect bothers me intensely, that is my own personal prejudice, but apparently a common one. Perhaps, if you chose to shoot it again, you might also try several off-angles; the bulls-eye composition could maybe stand some imrovement, but I am not so sure, since the radiating lines of the planks (?) play a part in drawing the eye to the candles. I'm not going to enter a rating because I can't decide how to weight my delight with the colors against my distaste for the grain/blockiness, but I do like the picture, otherwise I wouldn't care about the details. :-)

feels kind of contrived and looks super digital...

i like it, after all. but what i feel irritating is the blue shadow around the candles: is it a kind of noise, being digital, or some ps effect?

the composition, indeed, looks great, and the transparency effect on the green candle more, if possible. i wish i have not know the oiginal pic, but this is a point of wiew - strongly disliking digital manipulation - more of this, it's a my own weakness, aftyer spending half a life looking at glass and prints.

Wonterful & Cute