I have a couple of nifty HDR'd shots from an old train station and more nifty HDR'd and Topaz'd shots from 8 stories up in Frankfurt - with good light, even! I have some nifty night shots from 70+ stories up in Frankfurt, too. But I'm going with this one simply because it's my favorite shot of the month. It makes me smile. It reminds me of a great time. It was fun to take.
We were at a little restaurant feeding Cory (Chris and I had just eaten there, went back to feed Cory and have a beverage) and of course we were all playing with cameras. Chris had stuck my gorillapod on his head, so I had to shoot. Light was HORRIBLE, so I used the pop-up camera flash with a napkin over it to diffuse it a touch.
Processing involved cloning a flash reflection off his glasses, a Nik Silver Efex layer reduced in opacity to about 90% (not sure what setting - unfortunately Bridge doesn't save that info for me, but I think it may be the Holga setting), a wee bit of red/yellow added in a color balance layer, sharpen, resize, save for web.
No, I don't expect this will do well but I do hope it makes a few of you (other than Christoph and Cory) smile. I'm very pleased with it as my choice for this month.
[Mar. 3rd, 2009 02:41:10 PM]
OK, so no one finds this amusing except me, Christoph and Cory. Ah well. Maybe you had to be there.... :-)
By the way, even with it's lovely 4.4ish score, I'm STILL pleased to have this as my entry for this month.
9 Oct 2009: Edit to add this is STILL one of my favorite shots this year. :-)
7 Jun 2012: I still love this picture.
Statistics
Place: 407 out of 436 Avg (all users): 4.6531 Avg (commenters): 6.8000 Avg (participants): 4.6381 Avg (non-participants): 4.6905 Views since voting: 1267 Views during voting: 233 Votes: 147 Comments: 18 Favorites: 1 (view)
Thanks to you and other fabulous photogs here, I'm beginning to appreciate my own submissions that only I "get". I happen to really love the mood here too. Very Star Trek in a Talking Heads mood.
You did a really nice job with creating an aura of mystery (and fun!)
and it sounds as if you had a great time doing it - it certainly made me smile! so thanks for that...
Penny Street
I think it's the flash that killed you. Those harsh shadows scream amateur. But if you look past that, it's a great candid moment! Nicely processed with an air of mystery. And a good memory for you and Chris, it sounds like. My two cents anyway...
What are you doing way down here, woman!? Definitely an odd one. I can see why it came in where it did, but you appealed to Ubique, which is not easy to do.
I will not even guess what I might have voted it, because it did not come up for me. I am pleased to see you entering what you like, however. It's a way more interesting photo than my train!
I nearly always like portraits with eyes closed ... the good ones seem to liberate the subject, and give the viewer so much more scope for imagination. This is a good one.
This doesn't have anything to do with a German GTG does it? Looks remarkably like Mephisto - with a gorilla pod on his head..... Probably one of the most bizarre portraits I have seen on DPC of late - nice one!
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
