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I didn't quite understand what I was looking at.. at first, but now that I actually distinguish the "sphere" of the surface of a park area, I'm quite impressed!

very inventive

Just wonderful! I like the slightly desaturated look of the colors, its soft but still striking.

Good taste.

Heather, Cyrus Thanks for the comments :)

That isn't a wire hanging down, it's just a raw part of the wood piano he's standing on... Although it is still distracting. I could just color it to match the rest of the wood.

I think its wonderful, and who says black and white isn't crowd pleasing? did you notice the portfolio of the month?

Is this image heavily cropped from the original shot? It looks like you did some heavy unsharp masking on that mountain, or is it my imagination?

Actually that's not even close to how I go about darkening the sky... I'm pretty sure you are being distracted simply by over unsharp-masking of the final image... making the edges of the building too unrealistic. Maybe I'll have to tone that down.

My technique is merely using several layers, changing brightness and contrast (amongst a few other things), and clumsily separating the sky using a VERY soft eraser brush.

Did you check out the other image pasted in my above comment?

Thanks again for the input... it is priceless getting feedback like this.

I really enjoy some of your spain pics especially the black and white Leon one. The only one I can tell where the sky really looks out of place is "Zamora", mainly because of the white halo around the edges of the building.

It's a tough trick!

Holy cow!

At first I had no idea what I was looking at... but your set-up certainly is revealing :)

Here is another version.. I'm curious if you can see the "lines" in that one:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4094413

This is the second version (and different concept) of this shot:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4093578

Thanks for the critiques... not sure I can see the "lines" on my screen. Although, I would assume most people would make separate adjustments for the sky.. . unless they have a super camera :) Is it just that the edges are too sharp around the bulding?

What's your technique for handling this?

Stellar shot!

Is that backdrop real or a total photoshop fabrication?

If real.. what is it?

Blurry... but effective!

Neat composition

Good capture of the babboon, good use of DOF.

I'm curious, how do you like the sigma 70-300 ? I can't really tell how sharp it is on a resized shot like this (although at this size it does look pretty sharp).

My terribly cheap "Quantaray 100-300" lens is totally unusable wide-open at 300mm.

how is your sigma 300mm at 5.6 when looking at the full res image?

Very nice shot, excellent B&W convertion (I imagine you used a photoshop red channel).

I have a question about the sigma 10-20, do you find it lacks a bit of sharpness (in the center even) when focusing to infinity?