Wow...thrilled with the top 10 finish! Thanks to all for the votes and comments. Ahh...the plant....either love it or hate it variable :) I went through several attempts of the shot initially without the plant (which left too much void on the frame and the window. I needed to fill the negative space and the planted Palm Tree really spoke to me as something which would clearly be present in an L.A. Private Eye office. Initially I used the plant as a GoBo and fired a flash through it to get just the shadow. However the shadow and the mysterious light source did not really work with the composition so decided to leave it in the frame but out of focus. The plant was actually fairly close to me and this was shot with a 50mm prime so rather narrow DoF. To get the reflection from the blinds had a snooted SB-900 flash on a boom out of the window of an adjacent room (this was shot on 11th floor) triggered wirelessly. Had to pre-focus, then use the 10sec self timer to position my "burly" body which does much better on the other side of the lens....and light up a cig :) Thanks again folks!
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This is definitely noir-ish. It's dark and feels well done. Somehow the huge plant adds a lot to the photo for me. Like the "director" of your movie said "I don't care, we've got a story to tell!" I don't think I'm explaining that well, but I'm bumping this to an 8.
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