Awesome! Great range in color...

impressive and witty use of chemistry (in the title) ;)
i like the shot, but i'm a abit distracted by the red and white dot in the middle... that's probably just me though

s.hu: I did wonder about cloning out the figures, but decided against it. As for the title – it was all I could come up with so I'm glad it amused :-)

AMAZING, wonderful dramatic sky and great focus using depth of field. Such a lovely old-timey feeling to it.

This style and subject work so well together I can't imagine ever tiring of it. Beautiful work, again.

Great texture and a wonderful colour. The sky is also interesting.

Beats my work, thus far...

Great texture and nice and contrasty love it.

Good shot Dave. I'd like to go picture this structure again - when I get a car.

I would perhaps edit this person in the centre of the pic out of the shot. I know this is perhaps "too much editing" but one thing I particularly love about the shot is the blury coastline as in contrast with the pier, both of which are peaceful.

The color is great here, tho I would agree with S.hu about the white dot in the center. It just seems a wee bit out of place. No biggie tho. Beautifully done.

Or is it Fe2O3? :-)

OH wowwwwww!

the texture, the colours, the background! beautiful !

I'm a big fan of macro photos anyway...and this makes me an even bigger fan. And I'm going to agree with nogger on the Fe2O3.

Keep shooting those great photos.

Sorry to post two in a row, but I guess I should have said that I'm a big fan of 'close-up' photography - I'm new at all of this, so I don't know if this is considered a macro-type shot. Please correct me if I'm wrong. :)

Dave this is a great contrast to your last range of pictures and I love it, the texture and sharpness is superb and the colours and contrast are beautiful. Great job even for you =P

I viewed the photo after the people were cloned out (I wonder who they were and how they'd feel about being 'cloned out'!) and it's one of my favourite shots of yours. I love the apparent vignetteing, the richness and saturation of colours, the deepness of the shadows, the level of blur in the distance, and the sharpness of the detail in the foreground. I aspire to create shots so filmic and rich as this.

David, do you ever selectively add post-process lens blur into your images, artistically?

wicked shot. love it

love the focus on this one.

Hmmmm. Well, I hate to disagree. But honestly, I find this shot to be fairly boring. It's not bad or anything, it just doesn't get me excited at all -- at least compared to all your other awesome shots.

Ah! The people vanished! Good work, I could never get it so right!

The color combination is very striking in this one, and I especially like the quality of light on the rope.

This is s striking and superb composition. Excellent work.

Beautiful - love the rest and the little town in the distance

I'm intrigued, I'd like to see the one with the people in and the difference between the two. Do you have a link?

I like it alot. I do think there's some evidence though of selective blurring to accentuate the depth of field effect. For example, the strand of rope that has the beach as its background is out of focus, but the wood in the bottom right, just beyond the iron structure, is in focus, yet it must be further away than the strand of rope. I presume, Dave, you blurred the strand of rope along with the rest of the background?

That said, I think it is a fabulous shot.

Nice detail. At first glance I thought the ropes were some kind of creature!

Very nice shot, I'm not sure what it is about it but I really like it. I think it's the off-center/point of focus that I like.

Love it. I really enjoy taking this type of shot myself, though this has much more contrast than I usually dare to put in mine! Yet more inspiration from Chromasia! :)

I like the almost vignetted effect the darkening of the sky gives to the top cormers, too. Look forward to the others.

Any sign of the new arrival?!

I love it. Great details and colours.

owen-b and m: the figures weren't recognisable as such - just a small white blob and an even smaller red one.

owen-b and Fred: the focus/blur is as-shot. As for the strand of rope over the beach: it is farther away than the wood in the bottom-right corner.

To add to the ever present debate on "processing" Can cloning out part of the image be really be compared to dark room processing?

I don't think you have struck a pleasing balance between background and subject here - too much of the former. The main feature should be the texture of the rust and wood. Perhaps it would have been more effective if you angled the camera downwards and blurred the background more.

This is a very nice shot. It has a great variety of textures and nice colors. Vignetting = good. Colors = good. RE: cloning being compared to dark room processing, I would personally say that some of it is probably possible with dark room processing, but it would be very very difficult. But I'm no dark room wiz either. I just couldn't imagine how hard it would be to get it just right... that is, unless there is some sort of special equipment out there to help that process.

Oh that's beautiful. The colours are just classy.

Supreb.

i was trying to say, great image becaust it looks unreal. the background looks like it's a painting.

i hope i can get through this time - before i got an error page after clicking POST , with no possibility to go back to where i was.

erik
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Thanks everyone.

I like the dramatic lighting. And the out of focus background. Beautiful.

I really like the colors and bokeh in the photo. Maybe it is just me but I wish the metal and wood took up a bit more of the frame. Either that or just a tad lower angle of where the camera set.

this one is awesome, i love the colors.

This picture is 10 points! it makes a phanominal wall paper

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