scottelly

I shoot a lot of sunsets at ISO 100, and I rarely shoot below 1/60 second at f5.6, so I wonder how this image is possible at an exposure time of 1.5 seconds. I do like it though. I don't think there is anything I would change. Nice work!

Seems to follow the rule of thirds (2/3 light and 1/3 to the left is dark). The top edge bothers me.

The colors in the sky and reflecting off the water in this shot, along with the palm tree silhouettes and the clouds in the sky make it my favorite. I really like this panorama.

Keep up the great work!

This makes me want to shoot panoramas!

AWESOME image! I thought it was a photo of a bat hunting moths by a light. I figured the bright background must have been a white wall or something. I wondered how this shot could have been made, because it had a very deep apparent depth of field. I also wondered how the light from the background could be so bright, and then I figured it might be some type of flash set-up. It never entered my imagination that this was not a flying bat, completely alive, and trying to catch real, live, flying insects. I think it's an amazing composite. I've never seen anything like it before. (Of course, that may just be because I don't look at bat or bird pictures that much.) Kudos to the artist.

I like the sky especially, but the whole image, from subject and composition to lighting is really good. I really get a sense of motion in the water, and the tree looks in the small (thumbnail size) version of this shot, like a man throwing up his arms and one leg. That's what grabbed my attention the most at first. Then the tree just works as an extra point of interest in the larger view of this photo. One thing I really like is the colors in this image. For what would normally be a drab and dreary scene, the colors in this image really stand out. It looks very saturated, but I like that here. I also wonder what it would look like as a B&W, because I think the lack of color would make it look so different.

 

Excellent work Paul.

I didn't see immediately that it is a composition. It looks to me like it might have been a "real" photo. The light is similar (though it appears slightly different on each bird), and the sky is unlikely to look like that at any time but just before sunrise or just after sunset, so that is what gave it away to me. I just thought "Is this image possible?" Great work though. Very beautiful.

That's really cool man! It was very eye-catching as a thumbnail, and when I see the image larger it looks soooo cool. When I saw the thumbnail, I immediately thought of sperm racing to an egg (of course in this funny image it's a fried egg! lol), and then the spoons became obvious as soon as I saw the larger image, and that just made it even cooler. Very "Breakfast" style. As I look at the image I 'm not sure if the spoons started out with wavy handles though. I'm thinking they were warped, so kudos to the creative thought process here. At first I thought someone must have seen a spoon with a wavy handle on a table with a fried egg on a plate nearby, and then thought what a great idea for a photo, but now I think there was likely more of a vision or dream involved.

 

Great work!

I'm trying to figure out if this photo is worthy of printing and

offering as a limited edition from my site. Please let me know what

you think.

 

Thanks,

 

Scott - www.scottvision.com

I like this, of course, but I wonder what other people out there

think. Any comments on how you might improve the exposure,

composition, crop, etc. are welcome.

Visit this place for info. about the moving rocks.

 

http://www.death-valley.us/article332.html

 

Happy holidays!

 

Scott

 

 

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I would give this a high rating. I've only seen this type of image once before - in a book that I bought. I like this photo. I also find the subject very intrigueing.

 

I think that it must obviously have been ghosts that moved this rock (or maybe just one ghost). It is Death Valley after all.

 

Martin, I congratulate you. You've succeeded in making a beautiful photo, and also you've created an image that is surprisingly controversial.

 

P.S. At first I didn't find it beautiful, and I couldn't understand why people were calling this a beautiful image. Now, for some reason, I think it IS beautiful. Hmmm...

It looks like a breast to me. I thought we might be looking down at a breast with a preagnant belly below, but I never thought it looked like an egg until I started reading the comments. It would have to be some kind of deformed egg wouldn't it?

Very cool beautiful image.

Fine - a tribute to the beauty of the behind. Sweet, cute, and sexy!

 

Very nice job! THANK YOU.

This photo was shot around dawn with FHM/Maxxim model Kellie Callan.

It's almost exactly the type of photo I was shooting for, but I'd

appreciate any comments or advice on how to crop or otherwise

manipulate this image.

 

Thanks,

 

Scott

Definitely not your typical beach. Seems alien to me. I like it with and without the ND affect. I'm no expert, but the ND filter seems to make the sunset colors of the sky look more deeply rich to me. I noticed the sunrise in some photos I shot recently, and how the exposure for the foreground was too dark when the exposure for the sunrise sky looked best to me. I'm sure this is what Dave was trying to correct when he made this image, and I congratulate him on his success. I love this cool (and warm at the same time) image.