Darkness and life

Please critique.

Superb details.

Sorry, this one's too dark for me, and the reddish light in the lower right is distracting. You do, however, have a lot of really nice stuff in your folders!

Nice contrast and lighting

I appreciate the comments, especially about how the tones and shades in this image are perceived. It was hard for me to decide on the final brightness adjustments for the uploaded image since much depends on the monitor. I use a high-contrast LCD display that seems to reproduce shades surprisingly well. I noticed that other (CRT) monitors that I have access to all have noticeable variations in reproducing tones and colors. It seems that these variations become more critical in the case of "low-key" images with prevailing deep shades.

Wow!1 Fantastic Lighting!