Good Thing there's a Fence
by mrchhas

Comment by giantmike:
Took me a while to find your subject. But when I did, I certainly appreciated this photo quite a bit more.

Good Thing there's a Fence
by mrchhas

Comment by ThingFish:
Eeeeeeek!!

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Comment by posthumous:
fascinating effect

Wait where's my whiskey
by mrchhas

Comment by jamesgoss:
I like the high-key look, there's still plenty of contrast, although I do wish that the rim of the glass wasn't as blown out.

I'm not sure what the object in the shot glass is... It looks like ice, but it has a strangely unidentifiable shape to it, almost like the pipes in super mario bros.

overall it's not a bad shot, but lacks the huge visual punch/greater meaning that would take this to the next level.

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Comment by galatia_n:
Nice shot, a little ignorance from part of the tree on the top left should be clone out, IMHO.

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Comment by bassbone:
love the feeling that we are being sucked in

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Comment by olbol:
I'd do something with the central hole, the mundane-ness wrecks the whole ManRayish point of everything else.

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Comment by KarenNfld:
Very cool perspective.

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Comment by tanguera:
Cool!!

Oops...
by mrchhas

Comment by mrchhas:
Thanks to everybody for the constructive comments!!! This is the first challenge that i've entered that i actually set up the shot and thought about it before hand, and i have to admit it was a lot of fun... even if this was a bit rushed. Some of my friends also had suggested that the cone be more colorful, or a different flavor, but i wanted the eye to be drawn immediately to the model's face, and follow her eyes down to the falling cone.... which in reality could have been caught with a higher shutter speed. The peeps from the gelato store were already ticked that i bought a cone just to drop on the ground so i didn't want to risk a reshoot! :-D

Anyway, the idea came because i think, as jmritz noted, the saddest thing i can think of is a brand new ice cream cone falling on the ground. Unless you're eddie murphy, obviously!