Icarus

Your thoughts and ratings are welcome.

Great capture! Really a great exposure. Well done.

Fantastic work!! Regards Paul.

Original capture, Pedrag. Excellent use of light and silhouettes. Nice work!

Good stuff. Original. Now I expect more people-photos from you. ;)

 

Great capture, although a subtle fill-in flash would add up to a better result IMO. Maybe :)

Very original photo and beautiful work.

Very original photo...Something different from your last photos. Is it just me or does the horizon look tilted (the buildings in the background look tilted)?

Thanks for the comments.

Jay, the reason that the buildings in the background are tilted is that I pointed a wide angle lens upwards. As you can see, the skyscraper closer to the center of the frame is less tilted than the one near the edge.

Darek, the idea of adding some fill in flash crossed my mind, but my camera has the sync speed of only 1/90 sec, and I didn't have a separate flash unit.

I should have noticed the wide angle lens in the details section...Thanks for pointing that out.

Miran,

I have some interesting people shots taken on the beach in Budva, and will be posting them in the following weeks.

Very original and well done.I like it!

Well captured. However, I am not particularly enthused by the shot. Why is he there? Why is he in that position? Will he crash into the buildings?

Ross,

There is an explanation in the technical details section.

Fantastic shot. I like the sun and composition but I would like to see it a little bit lighter.

Hello Predrag, good focus, good dof, clarity is fine. Well done, regards, -Jim

Really great photo!

Great shot. I like the lighting looks good.

Pedrag, This is a good photo, especially into the sun without any lens flare.......

 

I took a similar photo last month in Ontario, Canada, of a trampoline artist in a street fair...I was lucky to have the sunlight behind me, and the traffic light in front..

A stunning shot. I disagree with suggestions to use fill flash. I think seeing more detail in the diver would subtract from the simple beauty of this image.

Predrag congratulations, Good shot well done and I agree with Dennis Newman not using fill in flash.

This is indeed a great capture, especially technically because there is no lens flare as someone else already wrote. Aesthetically the curve of the body nicely connects the sun and the buildings. As a minor detail, the crane in the background mirrors the orientation of the body. ;-)

 

Maybe, just maybe, some rotating and cropping could create a more dramatic image, but I'm not quite sure.

I would have preferred Icarus to be less centered in the frame and also with a more diagonal position. The buildings in the background are a little distracting. As a silhouette to me this looks fine. I'm not necessarily looking for details on the figure itself here, and with fill flash this would probably not have achieved such a dramatic effect.

Well Done. I like the buildings as part of the horizon, it creates the additional sensation of height. Grey scale was an excellent choice.

7 for originality,for sure.The background doesn't convince me but is stii a nice pic.