Challenge:Heat (Advanced Editing IV) Camera:Canon PowerShot A620 Location: Buffalo River NPS, North Central Arkansas Date: May 16, 2006 Aperture: f8.0 ISO: 100 Shutter: 1/15 Galleries:Nature Date Uploaded: May 18, 2006
Located in northern Arkansas, this cave is one of the most unique systems in the Mid-West. This piece of crystal is less then ½ centimeter thick but would weight less then 2 kilograms. This type of crystal sheeting forms mainly on the ceilings and walls in regions of the cave that is very arid. Known as Gypsum, or hydrated calcium sulfate, in this cave system the mineral will also form flowers, tusks and needles that are mere millimeters thick reaching lengths of 15 to 20 centimeters. Oils from a person’s hand can cause permanent damage to the mineral; we took extra precautions when making this photograph not to come into contact with the sheeting. No bats were injured or harassed during the making of this photo. Leave nothing but foot prints, kill nothing but time, take nothing but photographs.
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Place: 65 out of 158 Avg (all users): 5.6185 Avg (commenters): 6.0000 Avg (participants): 5.2903 Avg (non-participants): 5.8018 Views since voting: 906 Views during voting: 304 Votes: 173 Comments: 7 Favorites: 0
Hello from the Critique Club, I'm Jon Rowe, and I will be looking at your image today :)
Being from southwest arkansas (magnolia) I will have to visit this, looks very inviting. i really enjoyed this image. it really portrays the topic well, but i feel like the blown highlight in top right center in front of the man's nose is too much. a faster shutter cold have been used i suppose.
the young man was the focus point, i'm guessing, for he's in great focus. the rock is what the eyes come to first, being the brightest/biggest point in the image. i really like this, great composition, great flow. maybe cutting a little off the top to where the top of the rock leads you out of the picture frame, and then back in with a slightly tighter crop from the left could help a little.
overall, great image, with a great score. i really like this.
bravo, and good luck on your future challenges :)
-Jon Rowe
Pretty cool shot! The crystal really looks like it´s on fire, nice job on lighting it, for obvious reasons this isn´t very believable as magma as the dude in the photo would have melted if it were, would have been so though if he were wearing a superman costume :)
Anyway, really like the shot and I am surprised it didn´t score better, I honestly think this is underrated. The only thing I can think of that I dislike is that it´s a bit tightly composed for my taste, would have liked to see a slightly wider shot but not by much, just to give it some more breathing space towards the top and left side. Lighting is good, it´s an interesting picture, fits the challenge and I would have rated this a 7 or even an 8 depending how I would have rated this to the rest of the challenge (I was in this challenge too and normally don´t vote on challenges I am in, with a few exceptions ofcourse)
This is a very interesting photo.. I like the way you cropped it.. the magma is front and center but my eyes are lead to the man and he is the focal point . well done
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