I would like to thank DPC for giving me the opportunity to let my imagination run free. Without DPC I wouldn't be the photogrpaher that I am today.
I would like to thank my girlfriend for being sooooooooooo patient with me (and often being my model) and understanding my passion for this wonderful art.
I would like to thank my mom and my dad for bringing me into this world.
But most of all.... thank you to all the DPCers for voting my shot into glory!!!! *tear comes to his eye*
Go team Coolpix 4500!!!!!!!!! Wait a minute... I might be the only one!!!! ;-)
Yanik
*leaves the stage with the BLUE RIBBON glued on his forehead*
Too funny!!! COngrats on a wonderful shot and a blue ribbon!!
JD
I would like to thank DPC for giving me the opportunity to let my imagination run free. Without DPC I wouldn't be the photogrpaher that I am today.
I would like to thank my girlfriend for being sooooooooooo patient with me (and often being my model) and understanding my passion for this wonderful art.
I would like to thank my mom and my dad for bringing me into this world.
But most of all.... thank you to all the DPCers for voting my shot into glory!!!! *tear comes to his eye*
Go team Coolpix 4500!!!!!!!!! Wait a minute... I might be the only one!!!! ;-)
Yanik
*leaves the stage with the BLUE RIBBON glued on his forehead*
This was my favorite of the challenge and I am only sorry I did not say so prior to the end of voting. It is simply a very striking image. This and your other accumulated works at DPC are fantastic.
On a personal level, I think that this is a little deep for the current challenge, but I don't know where you are from or what your culture does for this holiday if anything... I can't fault the image too much though. You have a couple of spots in the bakground above the right hand thumb. You managed to light it up nicely without getting hardly any overexposure (KUDOS for that alone. I'm trying to get through my lighting issues.) Cropping is a little tight (is this straight out of camera?) Your focus is damn near perfect without being over sharp and I LOVE your choice of a sepia style here. Nice! Gotta be top 5.
TC
My first thought was that this had been neatimaged, or similar - there seems to be areas of very smooth smudges. I like the water in the hand, and a few of the waterdrops are nicely captured. Not sure about the sepia tone for this, though - it almost seems an unnatural coloring for the skin tone of the hands. Composition is ok, and the lighting/exposure is good.
The composition, tones and water capture is fantastic. I think it would work better with the hands being softer (less skin detail) as might have been "legally" accomplished using NeatImage.
such clear water, the ripple makes it so much more interesting than would just a plain puddle, fingernails slightly distracted me...just slightly.....:-D
Bad Points: Hate the color, real shame.
Good Points: Superb texture on the hands, composition well done for such a split second shot.
Overall Score: 5 (a 9 if it wasn't yellow)
How strange that three of us thought the same thing!
Nice hands, good capture, and an aesthetic composition. I do find the peripheral beads of water didtracting though and it would probably have made the shot look cleaner with only the water in the pool. Lighting is a little flat, but you've done well considering.
wow. is that really water? almost seems like the stuff in the middle must be a jelly.. but maybe i just have bad 'water-cupping' technique.. it just drips out of my hands. great composition and lighting.
... to drinkable water whenever I want it...
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