[Art]

Challenge #4 voting.

Find a subject(s) that displays some sort of 'creative shadows/shadowing'.

Here are the entries (in no particular order). Voting should be based on technique, creativity, and how interesting the photo is while within the challenge's criteria. Voting will be open till 12-14-07, and the winner will be able to choose the challenge for the next week. Voting for yourself is discouraged.

Cadence


Rainer


Jump5Fan


Apparently Nothing


tht00


natedawg5280

[ApparentlyNothing]

I have to say, all of them are pretty good. But I gotta vote for Brandon.

[Rainer.]

It's interesting to see how every photographer here has a definite style.

I had to vote for Nate, nice shot, and the shadow is really a main emphasis.

[tht00]

Woah. Viewing my photo from a public computer here at school makes it look very dark. Well, it's obviously dark, but so much so that it's missing a lot of detail (that is there).

For reference, do I need to brighten dark images like this in the future? I overall darkened this one a bit to get it where I wanted for my display... but I'm just wondering what it looks like out there.

[Rainer.]

It looks very dark on my desktop monitor, but I can tell what you were going for on my laptop monitor, which I think is a bit too bright sometimes. I think you could have done better brightening it up a bit.

[Cadence]

Originally Posted by tht00

Woah. Viewing my photo from a public computer here at school makes it look very dark. Well, it's obviously dark, but so much so that it's missing a lot of detail (that is there).

For reference, do I need to brighten dark images like this in the future? I overall darkened this one a bit to get it where I wanted for my display... but I'm just wondering what it looks like out there.

You need to color calibrate your monitor - that's what you need to do

[ApparentlyNothing]

I finally ended up figuring out some of that calibration mess. I didn't buy any expensive hardware to do it automatically unfortunately, but I did figure out that they recommend Macs change their default gamma from 1.8 to 2.2.

Here's a lot of helpful info.

http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_...Gprofiles.html

[RipVanWinkle]

Great entries this time guys!

Candence...your picture is pretty dang good...as is everybody elses

[FTS]

Man, some great shots. I went with Rainer's.

[Art]

Amazing pictures this time, and I am having trouble deciding.

[Cadence]

anyone else?

[Nate]

Jump5Fan. All the angles and lines and shapes and the interactions between them all are really nifty. I particularly like how the angled lines formed in the upper-left corner by the top two curly-q things on the baker's rack are almost exactly parallel to and lined-up with the angled lines in the shadow. Very cool.

[Ordinary Sarah]

I feel like Cadence, ApparentlyNothing, and tht00 focused more on light than on shadow. Jump5fan's is good, but I feel like it's a bit too busy for my liking. And Natedawgs is aesthetically pleasing, but there could've been more defined shadow, I think.


Therefore.... I am voting for RainerJon's. Er, already did, actually. I just love the striking silhouette of the glass. Silhouettes = perfect example of shadow, imo. And that is something that I feel the other photos were missing.

[Art]

I ended up voting for Brandon. In the end, I just could not ignore that incredible picture.

Jon's was amazing, and Nate's was quite good, but Brandon's sticks with me.

Actually, everybody's pictures were quite good this week. I was very impressed. Chelsea's was really good, too, and I wish she had left it up.

[Art]

Voting ended in a tie, so I added one day to the voting.