Beautiful color. DOF is great. I like the composition.

I like the dreamlike quality. Didn't catch it at first, but is that a face in the design?

Make sure their monitors are set to display the highest number of colors. I've had people email me with the same complaint and found out they were running their monitor on 256 colors or something crazy like that.

I'm guessing this is a reflection shot, or is it shooting through the window? Either way, I like the DOF. Any more or less building in focus could be distracting and take away from the image.

really interesting photo.. I like the look of the buildings in the back.. nice capture.

I didn't like this at first, in full size, but now looking at the thumbnail it's pretty cool. I like the background. I was too distracted by the shapes in front to notice how nicely the background complements it. Anyway, in the end, I like it :)

And I thought those other guys were crazy, imagining the pixelation-- but I played around with my monitor for a while and I can see it now too. When I turn up the gamma on my display it stands out. It happens anywhere that dark colors fade into each other. So I'd recommend those guys lower the gamma if they can.

I use millions of colors on my Powerbook G4 17". I did not notice until I looked for it, but from certain angles on my LCD screen (especially a little bit from above) I notice that right above the lighter purple area on the right side of yesterdays shot there's one major dark pixelated area. If you look on an LCD screen you will shurely see it. As with today's posting I like the shot and the post processiong.

There are a lot of your photos where I can see pixilation on my powerbook even though I'm using millions of colors as well. I always attributed it to the lcd screen because it's not a problem on my crt at work.

The etching/painting on the window reminds me of wifts of smoke. Quite an interesting effect with the blurred background buildings.

Very interesting picture
I like the composition, but somehow my eyes keep hovering over the picture without an answer...or is it just me...

I love the "abstractness" of this shot Dave. The colours, shapes and shades all work together in perfect unison. Great work :)

I'm using an LCD (an NEC 1770NX calibrated with a Spyder 2) and I can't see it. There again, maybe I just don't know what I'm looking for or just used to it by now.

I like it. What is in the foreground?

I have seen another shot here, the one of the fireworks, that clearly showed the effects of the JPG compression, but only seeing it under certain angles of the screen. I'm using an LCD (Dell 24") screen on a Mac, and calibrate it about once every 3 weeks or so. In the shot yesterday I think there is also some visible JPG artifacts in the black areas, but not as clearly visible as the other one, and much more difficult to see it... what compression setting you usually use for your photos?

I'm trying to use your gaussian blur overlay technique in photoshop on some of my images and it always oversaturates and throws off the colors so the picture doesn't look real at all...you can definately tell its been altered.

When you do it the colors all look like they remained the same, looks very clean, etc.

It's like...a persons skin will be normal, i'll do a 4 or 5.0 gaussian blur overlay and their skin gets neon pink (not that bad, hopefully you know what I mean)...how do I fix this???? please help.

Never noticed it before, but can see 'something' in the black regions on the sides if I crank the green gamma all the way up. I personally wouldn't call it pixelation, probably more like the jpeg compression the Rodrigo spoke of...

Classic c h r o m a s i a !

Wonderful composition. I like the painted/etched glass and how you were successful "aligning" the foreground over the background. The suggestion of an eye and nose and mouth may be more real than just mere suggestion.

I see a hint of the inside of a beauty shop/products or coffee shop.

the forms remind me of wisps of smoke...very interesting shot!

Wow! Beautiful and magical.

I am a very original photo, very pretty, like. Greetings

Dream, ghost or what else?! Very good job. Great composition and idea.

This is good Dave - I love it.

Re the pixelation - I think it is mainly an LCD problem, On my CRT Monitor it is not noticeabal

great picture.

Moltomolto bella! Complimenti mapi

ouu. a very neat shot. I like it a lot.

Thanks everyone.

As for the pixilation: I guess I'm not sure why some people are seeing it and others aren't.

Kevin: the technique works best of moderately saturated images. If the colours do get too much though try partially desaturing it.

^^

Thanks!

i like the evil eyes...
must b the thicker lines on it..

cant help but wonder how this shot would turn out if it was evening,
and the 'face' had a slight diffusion/glow to it...

strong idea...I would have liked to see it with the horizon line straight in the back...i.e. the house. Nice diversity lately Dave.

-T

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