Mirrored Mug
by Dirtypainter

Comment by idemaerschalk:
was there any chance to get the whole reflection in the shot? 5

Grid
by Dirtypainter

Comment by MayaM:
Great color here. What type of grid is it? Seems like an electron microscopy grid, but those are so small, can't see how you could take a shot of it. Hope you let us know.

Grid
by Dirtypainter

Comment by mfitch_or:
I like the play of light, the sharp defined black grid vs. the soft panels of color - great composition.

Grid
by Dirtypainter

Comment by obsidian:
This is very provocative, almost dream-like. Way cool - 8.

Carl

Sweet Music
by Dirtypainter

Comment by Skip:
nice rebound! keep it up!!

Sweet Music
by Dirtypainter

Comment by David.C:
Congrats on your first ribbon!

I can't add much that hasn't already been said, but I can say this. There were many in the challenge that used a leading line only partially in focus. And while this adds interest, it does not add to the seperation of the subject, so needs more. You added this more with the sheet music. While many isolated words with DOF, thus providing a subject, this alone does not provide much interest. By combining the two you created interest and a subject that provoked even more interest (however unintentional) by it's unusualness.

Add to this the wonderful lighting and tones the only think I could think of to improve it would have been to include another sheet of music closer to the camera to emphasis the OOF of the foreground.

As I said, the lighting is wonderful, but it appears bringing the lighting up to this level in post-processing created some problems in the darker areas. This is unfortunate, but not critical enough to drag the photo down much.

Again, congrats on your first ribbon -- I would say you redeemed yourself nicely.

David
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Sweet Music
by Dirtypainter

Comment by neenee1999:
A wonderful image. Congrats on your ribbon!

Sweet Music
by Dirtypainter

Comment by Baron152:
Very nice composition. Congratulations on your ribbon.

Grid
by Dirtypainter

Comment by UNTITLED:
Love the colors in this great abstract. Nice work!

Sweet Music
by Dirtypainter

Comment by Jutilda:
Congrats on the ribbon. Anything with music catches my eye!!!