bluyckx

a little bit soft especially around the eyes

also maybe a little more colour contrast (vibrance)

and watch out for those reds and magentas on the right side (maybe a little desaturation there?)

otherwise a very very very excellent picture

Thank you for looking at my picture.

If you like it, please rate it.

Find the fun reflections!

Thanks for taking your time.

it's a colorful world

:-)

okay this was shot in Mechelen, Belgium.

You can find the exact position if you go to my flickr site (bluyckx).

Hi John,

This is smoke from a good quality incense cone, photographed hand held with my 100mm macro and on-camera flash against a very dark background in a relatively dark room, inverted and processed in PS. Had to take about 20 shots.

You need a room that is totally draft-less and be patient and don't move about too much.

Ashamedly I have to admit that only since this week I calibrated my monitor and see what you mean.

There are some other pictures that I would like to improve looking at them now, but then again...

I'll try to do better in the future.

John,

you're so totally right!

That's how I shoot. I almost always go with my gut feeling for an image and only afterward, in hindsight I sometimes discover meaning for myself.

That's what happened here.

I'll often see a picture for the 'first' time when someone tells me what they think of when viewing it.

btw John

sorry for the delay but I answered on some of you r remarks on the other pics also, so check them out

A gray, misty night.

Outside my window I see a lamppost through the tops of the trees in front of my apartment. It is very quiet.

The color is a yellow orange glow.

I look, I like.

I took a picture.

By replacing the color with tint I noticed that it became stronger and more 'velvety'. And the details in the lower right are almost a suggestion.

It has no meaning as such or a purpose.

It's more an impression than an expression.

And it makes me think of the original 'exorcist' movie and what it is really about, for me.

That's all, I guess.

I'm not quite sure :-) how you coloured this, but I like it.

It actually tastes like old wood.

please don't rate if you're not sure

thank you

if you are not sure,

then don't rate please

thank you

if you 're not sure

don't rate please

take more than one second

or go rate a boys band on youtube!

Yes Len, there is a lot of similarity between your image and mine.

I bet that even the same fixtures were used!

At the same time they are both very different views on the same subject.

What a beautiful medium photography (isn't it) is!

(forgive me my blatant disregard for proper sentences)

:-)

In this picture I like the clash between the red and the blue, while the composition is very static. In the same session as my own image I photographed red berries and blue sky (thank you B+W polarizing filter!). It makes me think more of that than this... If you make of sense some can it.

As an onlooker it makes me uncomfortable in a way, but that 's probably just me.

I mean to say that it invokes an atmosphere of 'je ne sais quoi' but it's uneasy, the feeling I get from post modern painting or music or...

Anyway, I 'd like to congratulate you on a fine collection (I especially liked your leica series).

Take your time.

Or go rate some youtube videos.