Donut Slinky
by pidge

Comment by scubasteve:
Very Nice...

Morning Work
by pidge

Comment by silver_roxy:
The foreground is a little under exposed, but nice composition.

Donut Slinky
by pidge

Comment by jemison:
I like this. nice focus, composition and lighting...the shadows are very nice. Perhaps a little tighter crop (bit off right)

Donut Slinky
by pidge

Comment by Dennis T:
Nice lighting.

Asparagus #4...
by pidge

Comment by ShutterPug:
upper corner is too bright - focus too soft

Dead Pointe Shoes
by pidge

Comment by mesmeraj:
Pidge, i loved this image - and i felt for the poor toes that had worn these slippers to death. I'm sure many a painful session went into breaking them in, and now they are broken beyond repair.
I loved the composition and i did see your concept of hanging up the shoes.
The lower shoe seems to be just out of focus, and that did bother me just a little bit - personally i found myself thinking the left shoe is no more important than the right, so they should both be crisp.

Did you try the image in b&w? I just pulled it into photoshop (hope you dont mind) and desaturated it, then chose the hightlight on the heel of the left shoe as my white point and the background as my black and pulled the mid range up a bit, and the starkness of the image gives the image that extra impact of what once was and is no longer. With a sharper i meantioned, and this little waltz with curves, i would have given you a 10.
It was a wonderful, original image with very strong composition - with a like postprocessing you would have had a hole in one :)

Donut Slinky
by pidge

Comment by lshles:
Well done.

Run!.jpg
by pidge

Comment by 3DsArcher:
Wow I really like this effect. It adds a sense of energy to the photograph. I will have to try this myself. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Run!.jpg
by pidge

Comment by Alain:
I usually do not like these kind of effects, but in this case, it's a completly different story. It gives the picture something special, I like it.
Edited for typo (some may remain) ;)

Message edited by author 2005-07-09 16:02:26.

Run!.jpg
by pidge

Comment by cools98:
This is a good starting point. I would agree with pcody that some more attention needs to be given in certain areas. I likt the photo, but I personally think that the blur effect works better if the subject is further away from the camera than the blurred subjects. The blur makes it look like everything comes from the focus point, but it throws me off when that person is in the foreground I guess.