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A mixture of lighting to try and get the effect of night and day - did it work? C&C welcome.

Chris

No!

It's a lovely statue but the image is too cluttered and you broke one of the golden rules....you used a brickwall as a background!

I'm not to keen on it either Chris, sorry.

The contrast in light temperature does puzzle a bit. I'd remove the mobile phone and remote control, though.

Cheers
Steffen.

too many distractions........ good statue, and a good balance of light.....

I'm with Bernie on this one. Very nice balance of lighting.

I concur with those that say there is too much crap but pleased that mention has been made of the balanced light

The mobile phone and family photo is a bit of a distraction. Would like to see the photo without these items but I do like the photo especially the backgound lighting.

Thanks

Graham

Chris, I for one will discuss the balanced light...I think it's fanatstic! I see a very fine line of a shadow across the breast of the statue....but look at the rest of the image

Sahdoes are almost non existent and the exposure is still good

You have a statue of a topless archer on your shelf? Interesting
I found the out of focus flowers on the right of the image a distraction.
overall the contrast is very good and the lamp light is interesting.

The brick wall works very nicely... just pp out all the rest and it's a winner.

Mj wrote:The brick wall works very nicely... just pp out all the rest and it's a winner.

As a study, it's a great shot, it has some great qualities - goes to show if you know what you are doing... Anyway, who says it isn't interesting, semi-naked women, weapons...

What equipment did you use - also, the pic is unusually sharp for a web post, how do you process your images for web upload?

This was shot with the Nikon D1 and the 28-105mm Nikkor.

Straight forward sharpening, in this case it would have been USM.

Chris, will you let us in on how you lit the image? On first glance it looks like you bumped into that scene and snapped it, but I've tried to recreate something similar and didn't get anything even close.

Still puzzled.

Paul, I like your eye for detail

Cheers
Steffen.

It was actually quite simple. The overall lighting is diffused daylight, the wall being approx 15ft from the window with lots of trees. The image was manipulated extensively is PS to balance the lighting.

Mj