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I like the shot and expression but would dial down the smoothness and sharpening.

I like this shot a lot, especially light peeking through the bottom of the door. Danger...

It looked like ball lightning from the thumbnail- very neat!

This is a screenshot from Half-life 2?

This is a wonderful photograph! The jitteryness makes it seem like that pipe is ready for blastoff. Very creative!

I quite like the effect of the shot and am impressed it looks this good with digital. It's very sharp for night work.

The starburst effect is normal for a point light source and a decent lens. It surprised me that it says you used a fish-eye for this. It doesn't seem that distorted. Good work!

That's not an oddly exposed orange, is it?

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I don't like the crop because it weakens the triangle shape at the center of the picture. I that way, the lights add to the effect. If you want to make the subject more prominent, maybe play with depth of field or brightness levels.

I've tried to get a similar effect, and I think you've hit the secret- fog. Without it, the light isn't diffuse enough and overpowers the tree. Great eye and great job.

 

Re: earlier post-Drunkeness is no excuse for nastiness. The colors (red-shifts...) are perfectly normal for night photography. You don't need photoshop to make an image look unreal.

This is the most evocative of the picture you posted, and technically the sharpest. I'm surprised by the lack of sharpness of some of the other photos, given that the source is digital. Maybe try using a tripod or faster film?

It's truly an incredible picture! The vividness of the colors- the pinks with neon blue shadows, the bright orange and yellows- if this is on earth, I have never seen it.

 

What I was talking about are false-color images like: http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/ems/ir_man.gif from Nasa or http://www.williams.edu/Astronomy/solarlab/spectrum.gif

The images sort of transpose invisible wave lengths into colors we can see, but tend not be very subtle about it.

 

This is a real scene? The colors on the bottom look like they're out of a thermal spectrograph.

Consider switching to slide film. I've had good luck with Provia 100 and Fuji/Kodak Tungsten-balanced slide film. The latter will give your sky a bluish cast, and tone down any green fluorescent lights. If you don't have a decent tripod/cable release, hit the local Kitamura Camera for some good prices.

Forget the background, all the space above the car adds nothing to the shot. Crop away!

This picture leaves questions without answers. Well done.

Interesting exposure. That she's underexposed and the background is overexposed give the impression that she's floating in the clouds somewhere.