Wow, just wow.
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I wish uploading to Photobucket didn't create the banding in the blue. But oh well. The print will be good.
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Good eye... it's one of the things I was going for but there were not as many evergreen types hanging low enough to get a good shot.
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I made it out for some pictures around sunset today. These have been touched up a little -- just some color correction and minor RAW work. I might go back into PS and sharpen them; but they're tack sharp out of this lens, for the most part. I added some vignetting to some of them because I thought it looked nice in the blue sky (the lens has none on its own).

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Looks Good Professor.

In all of the upper corners there appears to bw some WICKED vignetting. Or did you do that PP?

And my contribution today

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I added that. Haven't decided if I like it. I usually don't; but for some reason, it seemed like the right thing to do here.

Still not sure if I feel :-) or :-).
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If you are using Photoshop and doing the linear burn I usually set it to 7% opacity it does what you were going for but less blatantly.
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I shoot RAW; so I used Adobe Camera Raw, which has vignetting correction tools. It's amazing how much you can do before even opening PS. Oh ... and here's a cropped version of #1 with less vignetting, unsharp mask, and toned down color:

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Once I'm done with PP on this one, it may actually get printed.
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The lighting and what I refet to as "an explosion of branches" are my favorit kinds of pictures ever.

Dont tell my GF but I kinda have a tree fetish. :-)

side note/suggestion: Id get rid of the powerlines bottom left.
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Here are some from the stash. C&C greatly appreciated.
Please Ignore the Sensor dust on picture 3. Camera was in dire need of a cleaning now its spotless.

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hmmm... I smell a lensbaby on the last one?
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So the delicate color balance of course went to pure sh!t when I put it up on the web, but the original struck a cord with me, I think you'll get the idea :-) (actually, maybe not.... it REALLY looks like hell on the web)

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My humble take on the last pic if you don't mind. For abstract images like that one, I like to define WHAT I'd do with it before I start work. For this one, I envisioned it printed to a 3'x3' canvas, and that became the driving idea behind how I processed it.
(if I had the source file and was really going to print it, I would probably clean up the processing method a little and reduce the jaggies a bit)

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Took some pics of a shell me bought in St. Lucia on our honeymoon.

Focus, negative space

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no focus on these...

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A few more...

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Very cool. I like what youve done. I rarely print anything really (aside from my work being sold in coffee shops)

I have a couple that ive been wanting to print for myself at 20X30. But it has to wait untill I move out. My parents wouldnt approve per se....
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More!

Meh Pitbull "Mason"
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Meh cousins dag
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-Roland.
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Love it!... but I'm a sucker for dogs :-)
Sharpness on the eyes looks pretty good (at least on my phone screen). I'd probably add just a touch of extra sharpness in the left eye in processing, but I'm looking at on a phone, so :-)
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My walls are bare because I have so many cool pictures burried in my archives that I want to print... ~sometime~.... *sigh* one of these days I'll have time to dig em out!
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My first shot at water drops. Not a true macro lens, but pretty close.


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