Fits the theme well. It feels a little like a snapshot though, a really wonderful snapshot full of nice memories I am sure but still a snapshot.

i appreciate the comment, Laurie .. but it was a bit more than a snapshot. This was taken an hour after sunset, with very little ambient light. to be able to capture the reflection of the fire on the faces, i had to get a 8-second exposure on a tripod & instruct all of them to be still for the 8-second duration :)

Cheers!

Wow the guy smiling held the smile steady for a long time!!! I think the "snapshot quality" for me was more about the composition, not the technique.

gazdi, if you want, send me that file.
vernon.trent@xoverip.info

then we see what we can do :)

hm...
lots of tweaking, but at least something dramatic, with edge :-)

www.xoverip.info/tbd/gazdi.jpg

B&W definetly works very well, I didn't even think of it. Thank you.
I'm not sure about the negative space on the left. There was a version in my mind using that feeling (wide crop of a wall, a candle on the right and me in this robe sitting on the very left) but in 'In Your Face', I wanted to show something with stare.
So, thanks for the reprocess, I like it. I think I should study lighting now. :)

no problem.

I had to sharpen 12 times in 11 steps from 3456px to 750px :)

you can tape something on your camera flash, just leave a small circle for some light.
then use the night portrait program of your canon. when the shutter releases, then the flash would lighten your face and something from your body. after the flaslight is done, the shutter will stay a little open. long enough to capture the warm light of your candle.

give it a try :-)) should work fine.

I will, ty.

After Vernon started the gear shots, I had to submit this ;)
I'll bet the SRV would sound killer through this!

oh yeah!

monster sound!!!

very nice-well done

Very interesting and clever take on the theme.

i really like this picture-composition, contrast, angle-everything-well done

The black and white is really nicely done and well suited for the shot. I think I might have played with the crop a little and maybe removed the houses from the shot.

Really nice. Sigh.....I'm so sick of looking at white, this is just like music to my eyes! The depth and atmosphere are fabulous. I now have an even worse case of Spring lust than I did before I saw this image. ;-)

Very nice Bob. I feel as if I could be walking there right now.

Beautiful! Where is this?

Brant, this was taken along a trail at Dingman's Falls in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area -- eastern Pennsylvania, USA. Early morning sunlight.

Thanks Bob. The more I look at it the more I like it. The depth through the woods and the rows of trees are awesome.

Nice photo but I'm not sure it fits with the topic

anyway, very good tonal range

A superb "Fine Art" style photograph with nice deep blacks - although maybe a tad shy on the white end - lovely and printworthy

It was low on the white end mainly because the rose was dark yellow, and brown because it was dried out when I shot it. It was tough to get it this white. I wish it had been a white rose.

There is a story behind this rose and why it was important for me to shoot it. I got it the day after Valentines day, it was a tiny yellow rose about the size of a quarter. It was given to me by a friend of mine who is in one of the orchestras I work with. Attached to the tiny rose was a Bible verse on a card tied with ribbon. I am not a particularly religious person, but the verse was lovely and made all the more touching by the fact that my oldest son had just told us that he is about to leave for Iraq in just a few days. I kept the rose and it dried in the vase I had it in. I looked at it last night and was feeling melancholy over my son leaving. The yellow rose now whithered and dried brown, fit the way I feel, so I spent last night shooting it.

It is beautiful.

wow-what an awesome capture-well done!

Thanks Paul :-)

Congrats - this is a great feature photo

Not quite sure what's going on here, but it's very well done. Clean and crisp with good color.