weekly Ben's Photo 52 - Week 5 Secure Added

It's like one of those pop-up messages designed to freak it you out as you click through. Good colour selection but I would say you could go even stronger on the contrast to make the blood vessels in the outer parts of the eye even more freaky.
 
Thanks for the comments everyone, I wasn't expecting this idea to go down well but I'm pleasantly surprised with your reactions. I'll give the image another edit and boost up the contrast :)
 
Says fear to me as well, and a very nice and sharp image.

Wondering if it would look better if the eye ball was looking up just a touch so you can see the whole thing and a little neater with the selective colour as some of the edges aren't quite there.

Just read again and think this is your quick idea?

Good work and different from what's already been posted, well done :)
 
Delta Skies said:
Good use of selective colour for this theme.
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Thanks Peter. Already itching to have a go at the next image, also I should of took a picture of myself last night after dropping my 50mm 1.8 on concrete, I thought I'd broke it!
 
Direction, it's clear and fits the theme... good use of DOF and I think the edit is better

Fear, sure looks afraid to me, good and sharp eye, and the red adds to it.
 
danjama said:
Your photo for 'fear' is just terrifying. A less saturated red would have been better for me, as this makes me think that the subject may be evil, but i'm just nitpicking really. Good take on the theme.
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Thanks for the comment Daniel, I agree about the red. I wasn't sure when I first uploaded it but the more I look at it the more I like it.

duttytd said:
Really like the fear shot. Did you try color on the blood vessels?
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Cheers Tony, I didn't but I might give that a go now :thumbs:

snorton said:
Brilliant use of selective colouring. Nice sharp shot, worked well. Good take on the theme :thumbs:
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Thank you Simon, appreciate your kind comments :)

jgs001 said:
Direction, it's clear and fits the theme... good use of DOF and I think the edit is better

Fear, sure looks afraid to me, good and sharp eye, and the red adds to it.
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Thanks for stopping in and commenting John, I appreciate your feedback :)
 
A couple of great pics to start your 52

I thought I had commented on this one, I was planning to do they keyboard but you beat me to it :D Really like the edited version

The eye shot is a corker - really good

Look forward to seeing the rest of your 52 :thumbs:
 
Hi Ben,

Great start to your 52, keyboard right on theme, but you excelled yourself with week 2.
Great idea, well photographed and kinda freaks me out everytime I look at it !

Carol
 
Really sorry about only just getting this one sorted, I've been on work placement all week and not been getting home till late. But here is my attempt at sigh, I fee it is more fed up than sigh but she certainly was sighing while I was taking the image


3/52 - Sigh by bensambrook, on Flickr
 
Nice one Ben.. the processing works well.. I think... I'd probably agree with you... she does look a bit fed up... but that can induce a sigh.
 
jgs001 said:
Nice one Ben.. the processing works well.. I think... I'd probably agree with you... she does look a bit fed up... but that can induce a sigh.
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Thanks John, I agree with you on that one. She certainly let out a huge sigh when I asked her to model for me anyway :p

Treehugger81 said:
A great shot! Not an easy thing I capture in an expression but I think you've done well. :thumbs:
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Thanks Phil, glad you like it :)
 
Now that IS a sigh, and beautifully captured too; it looks candid, so you/she did very well if it's staged, and well spotted if not!
 
^Joe said:
I'd not expect a shot without eyes to work -
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I don't know why you'd think that; it worked OK for the 70's tennis player and her bum! ;)
 
Southdowns said:
Now that IS a sigh, and beautifully captured too; it looks candid, so you/she did very well if it's staged, and well spotted if not!
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Thanks Mark, it was a staged shot yes. These were my exact words 'sigh for me' and she pulled this awesome pose so I had to capture it :)

^Joe said:
I'd not expect a shot without eyes to work - but here it's spot on. Great stuff!
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Thanks Joe, appreciate your comments :)
 
Hi Ben


great capture for SIGH...love the mono ...conveys the theme really well ...some emotions are sooo hard to capture in an image but you've done really well.....keep up the good work mister :clap:
 
blondie606 said:
Hi Ben


great capture for SIGH...love the mono ...conveys the theme really well ...some emotions are sooo hard to capture in an image but you've done really well.....keep up the good work mister :clap:
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Thanks Lynne, all these positive comments keep me going :D

snorton said:
Ben, yet another cracking shot from you fella :thumbs:

Looking forward to seeing more of your 52:D
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:D Thanks Simon, just taken week 4 as Saturday morning seems to be my only bit of free time lately!
 
So here we have week 4, again I appologise at it coming in on a Saturday morning but that's the only free time I'm getting recently :( Anyway enough excuses, here it is. Nothing special, just I like the colours and the sugar crystals really give off the theme of sweet. All in my opinion of course :)


Week 4/52 - Sweet by bensambrook, on Flickr
 
ChickenDipa said:
I like it, nice coloured sweets. Bit different from the normal vibrant jellies.

Nice DOF too
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Thanks Alex, can always rely upon the 50mm to give a nice DoF :D I should have more time this week, so I can get Secure done early.
 
Like Phil think everything's been said, really like sigh and the mono conversion suits it well. Like the colour and dof on sweet, lighting and sugar crystals are really nice :)
 
Treehugger81 said:
Great shot Ben. Can't say anything more than has already been said :thumbs:
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Rolyratman said:
Like Phil think everything's been said, really like sigh and the mono conversion suits it well. Like the colour and dof on sweet, lighting and sugar crystals are really nice :)
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Thanks guys, just had a quick go at Secure but not really sure I like it. I've tried to show the friendship and security two people can give each other.


5/52 - Secure by bensambrook, on Flickr
 
I like the idea and the black and white suits it very well. The sleeve is a little bit of a distraction and also I think this would work better if you had the hands resting on a flat surface. The lighting is really good.
 
Secure works well, nice interpretation of the theme.
 
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