Ethereal Convolution
by fmalan

Comment by Sliekas_Satanistas:
Nice mealstrom in right bottom. Very sharpe lines and fully filled frame ;)
Good job ;)

Ethereal Convolution
by fmalan

Comment by Damzel:
I love the colors in this and the swirls are amazing!

Ethereal Convolution
by fmalan

Comment by Shutter-For-Hire:
NICE sharp pic!!!

Red? Or Black?
by fmalan

Comment by rjkstesch:
Francois,
,
Congratulations on one of your top 3 scoring shots to date. Overall, it's a good shot that needs just a bit more to take it over a 6.

Technically: While you are very sharp in some areas, others, such as the hand are a bit soft. I can see by your ISO and shutter speed that you were pushing to get this much light in the direction you wanted. However, a higher aperature f8-f11 may have helped, or afaster shutter speed or even backing the camera up a bit to get more focus on the hand.
The coloring is a bit red, even on the face of a nervous bomb technician. More light on the surface holding the bomb would have given less of a "floating" feeling.

Emotionally: I like the intensity in the eyes. The mouth expression feels a bit off to me as I'm not entirely sure what it is supposed to be. I also think that because the bomb is facing forward and the man is facing sideways that the connection between the man and bomb is not as strong as it could be. I'd like to be scared spitless for him. Instead, I feel like I'm getting a staged retelling. Changing the angle of the bomb would probably help, and adding the sweat would really get us sweating.

Meeting the challenge: You definitely met the challenge. Many people related to the image concept and had some very good comments.

Keep up the good work, refine the details and we should be seeing you in the high scores often.

Becky

Favourite Red
by fmalan

Comment by molliefestus:
perhaps better if you'd actually poured some in the glass for a more powerful depiction of the theme

Favourite Red
by fmalan

Comment by Purple_Girl:
Good shot, I think some wine actually in the glass would help say red to me.

Favourite Red
by fmalan

Comment by Pikkel:
lol my first idea that I tried with this challenge was a bottle of Little Red truck Merlot with an old vintage little red truck....I love the picture jsut for my own personal taste but I was not sure it gave enough color

Favourite Red
by fmalan

Comment by kaiser_chief:
ummmm.....Red Wine.....Now you are making me thirsty.
Good submission for the challenge. I like the idea of the gradient background, but maybe the other way (darker at the bottom) would have been better, making the glass stand out slightly more, rather than blending in.

Favourite Red
by fmalan

Comment by JJoshua:
I would like this more if there were some element of the work that showed the content of the bottle.

Favourite Red
by fmalan

Comment by bassbone:
a good idea but without the glass already poured it is hard to 'see' the red...