Which Photo Best Captures the Silhouette Theme?

[ZapperZ]

For a contest that started out rather slow, this has turned into a terrific one. There are some amazing pictures in this contest, so it may be a difficult and close voting.

Please choose a picture that best represents our theme, which is a picture that has a silhouette of an object/person/s.

1. turbo-1

2. ZapperZ
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/1286/img3424ga4.jpg

3. Janus
http://home.earthlink.net/~parvey/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/silhouette.jpg

4. neutrino

5. matthyaouw

6. detta
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/9033/silfi1.jpg

7. FredGarvin
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/301/silhouette2smfm1.jpg

8. alex_caps
http://bikeflat.com/albums/newmexico/DSC_4917.sized.jpg
Contest thread

Zz.

 

[Evo]

This is REALLY hard, but I have to go with Zz. The picture just has an Art Deco appeal to it.

 

[rewebster]

4. neutrino

naturalistic, aesthetic, contemplative, simple but complex areas, good composition, interesting internal to edge structure and division of spaces--good, I like it

 

[turbo]

Had to go with neutrino. He nailed this one. Wonderful subject and composition. Nice implementation of the new camera, buddy!

 

[Evo]

Hmmmm, turbo and matthyaouw were tied for a close second for me. Turbo's was classic, and matthyaouw's keen eye caught a great picture. I do like neutrino's also for the starkness, I just wish the bird beak wasn't blurred, that ruined it for me, I would have loved the overall picture to be a bit crisper and more in focus. alex_caps is also very nice. Heck, they're all great in one way or another.

 

[rewebster]

I kind of like the blurred bleak--it makes the photo 'move' / show movement to just a small degree. I can't remember the name of the photographer, but somewhere in that 1960's to 1980's period there was a artist that become fairly well known for having a 'blurring' effect to part of the photo. Funny to think about but that 'straight on' /profile period of Picasso was from a photographer that did a 'time' shot of a woman showing both slightly blurring where her face 'overlapped' perfectly.

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I like the bottom bird's 'bottom' edge/belly and how it mimics the brach's curve that it's standing on.

 

[Math Is Hard]

neutrino's picture would make a really cool mural. I love the background color.

 

[Kurdt]

I voted for Janus' but everytime i look at it, it seems more sinister

Perhaps its just me

 

[Evo]

I kind of like the blurred bleak--it makes the photo 'move' / show movement to just a small degree. I can't remember the name of the photographer, but somewhere in that 1960's to 1980's period there was a artist that become fairly well known for having a 'blurring' effect to part of the photo. Funny to think about but that 'straight on' /profile period of Picasso was from a photographer that did a 'time' shot of a woman showing both slightly blurring where her face 'overlapped' perfectly.

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I like the bottom bird's 'bottom' edge/belly and how it mimics the brach's curve that it's standing on.

My first husband was a photographer, and I had learning how to focus the Nikon he bought me beaten into my head so I'm a bit predjudiced. I still have nightmares about f-stops. He did our wedding pictures and forgot that he'd been doing infrared photography. I think I have the only infrared wedding pictures.

 

[rewebster]

My first husband was a photographer, and I had learning how to focus the Nikon he bought me beaten into my head so I'm a bit predjudiced. I still have nightmares about f-stops. He did our wedding pictures and forgot that he'd been doing infrared photography. I think I have the only infrared wedding pictures.

so, is there a joke in there?---'I bet "they looked HOT"'

 

[neutrino]

4. neutrino

naturalistic, aesthetic, contemplative, simple but complex areas, good composition, interesting internal to edge structure and division of spaces--good, I like it

Had to go with neutrino. He nailed this one. Wonderful subject and composition. Nice implementation of the new camera, buddy!

I do like neutrino's also for the starkness, I just wish the bird beak wasn't blurred, that ruined it for me, I would have loved the overall picture to be a bit crisper and more in focus. alex_caps is also very nice. Heck, they're all great in one way or another.

I kind of like the blurred bleak--it makes the photo 'move' / show movement to just a small degree. I can't remember the name of the photographer, but somewhere in that 1960's to 1980's period there was a artist that become fairly well known for having a 'blurring' effect to part of the photo. Funny to think about but that 'straight on' /profile period of Picasso was from a photographer that did a 'time' shot of a woman showing both slightly blurring where her face 'overlapped' perfectly.

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I like the bottom bird's 'bottom' edge/belly and how it mimics the brach's curve that it's standing on.

Thank you all for the C&C. It was, in a way, a "random" shot. I hoped to achieve better focus the second time, but while I was busy previewing the image on the LCD, the crows flew away.

 

[Huckleberry]

This was a tough one. I had a really hard time deciding between Janus, neutrino and alex_caps. In the end I decided to go with neutrino's picture because it is simple and elegant and based entirely on the theme of the contest.

I have a soft spot for Janus' photo. That's touching.

 

[rewebster]

Thank you all for the C&C. It was, in a way, a "random" shot. I hoped to achieve better focus the second time, but while I was busy previewing the image on the LCD, the crows flew away.

ahhh--nothing is random (according to Einstein)

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turbo--I like 'different' cloud shots--I've seen that ripple effect in clouds, but have never seen it at three different vectors/angles before--one many times, twice once in a while, but never three

 

[matthyaouw]

FredGarvin gets my vote. There's just something really serene and relaxed about it...

 

[FredGarvin]

FredGarvin gets my vote. There's just something really serene and relaxed about it...

Fishing with my BIL is anything but relaxing (jk) but it is heaven on Earth up there.

I had to give Neutrino the nod. That picture reminds of a Shoji screen. Very cool picture.

 

[ZapperZ]

You have less than 2 days left to vote in this contest.

Zz.