Dark Side of the Egg
by spiderman

Comment by jmsetzler:
I believe that a little toying with the exposure on this shot would make quite an improvement. Underexposing this one another stop or probably two would leave the deatail on the lit side of the egg intact and make the back side completely dark... great idea though :) - setzler

Dark Side of the Egg
by spiderman

Comment by asaberi:
Looks like an elipse moon.. great texture... 7

Dark Side of the Egg
by spiderman

Comment by Ricky Cleave:
do I detect contrast manipulation?

All Mine
by spiderman

Comment by paganini:
I think the shot has merit. I like the soft focus. Too bad no one else likes soft focus, see, on DPc, unless it's perfectly SHARP, everyone would give you a bad score.

All Mine
by spiderman

Comment by spiderman:
as a quick review to those who didn't catch the numerous definitions posted in the forums, GREED is wanting/taking more that you need while GLUTTONY is actually eating it all-- as a few of you pointed out, the young lady is too small to be a glutton, but she certainly has a large helping in front of her --- could she be greedy? I thought so - too bad (for me) you didn't, too

anyway, this was taken in some patio seating at a Little Tokyo restaurant in downtown LA, where i went to try to get some shots of the massive homeless community -- i was going to try to involve a sloth/envy/pride theme - turns out that i could have got greed had i proceeded, as most of my intended subjects wanted compensation in order for me to depart with my equipment intact -- too difficult to compose in that situation, so i chose a more candid subject (good hunting for the next 'candid' challenge)

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by spiderman

Comment by rapsiii3:
Spider, I couldn't read thru all of this. I got thru the thought about a white woman eating salad not being gluttonous and I just lost all concentration. You need to improve on your web saving-compression ratio.

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by spiderman

Comment by stephan:
The soft focus is nice. -stephan

All Mine
by spiderman

Comment by falvey:
I rated it a 6 but for the focus.

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by spiderman

Comment by Mousie:
The blurring looks pretty cool, it softens the picture nicely, but I would have framed it vertically (480X640), the left edge in the middle of the curve of her shoulder (and that big salad thing) just inside where the background darkens, and the right edge through the middle of her glass of water. This would focus on her a lot more, cutting away distracting background details like the other woman, while still keeping enough of every dish to clearly convey the quantity of food, and keeping that cool reflection of the post in the window. Try it with your hands!

All Mine
by spiderman

Comment by SSonnentag:
Too soft, but lighting is great!