Great shot Natalya, I've looked at the others in this challenge and this should have finished a lot higher, love the blurring and the compostition- yet again, you have a beautiful shot ;-)
To Barry and Andi, no, I didn't use a mirror. They are my hands completely unreflected :o)
As for the PP stuff, school is teaching me a little and have been spending some time with a 'tutor', oh and it always helps to have a PS 'Guru' as a friend! ;o)
Definately not a Talj shot! In the right challenge I think this would have scored much higher (I think you had the shoehorn out for this T).
Am not sure about the zoom blur on your fingertips but other than that I'm impressed with your new found PP skills (learnt at school?). Until I read the comment below I thought this was 2 of your hands - is it a mirror? Am looking forword to seeing more of the same T :)
the finger tips were a bit too blurry for me. maybe if you would have shown part of the head from behind it might have appealed to the dpc group more...? who knows. good job
A few shots along similar lines in this challenge. I felt that the concept showed a good understanding of the criteria: "the essence of a person". But as Sonya says, DPC voters can be fickle. I liked the choices you made with post processing. Particularly the tones, not quite b&w. Zoom blur around the fingertips is a nice touch too, softening the overall feel. Nice going Captain :)
another example of religion, cats, and flowers not doing so well at times on DPC. I like the shot, you did great job with the PP. Also, might have been no head, voters can be very critical of what they feel is "meet the challenge". You met it and ya done good. Lots of good images in this challenge, you had some tough competition.
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