Marvelous lighting and great soft texture captured in this shot. Nice job on the eyes!

thanks. I used a wide-aperture combined with a noise reduction post-processing tool to create the soft texture in the out-of-focus areas.

A fantastic portrait. The lighting is wonderful.

Very Nice! Cool find or nice set-up? Either way, great shot!

A picture in a picture, the spot looks very fragile, great!

I've tried myself several times to take this type of shots....and I've never nailed it.

awesome! good eye .. very good composition.

nice picture, feel like I am looking in myside...

Why didn't you shoot this straight on? The symmetry is also fantastic here. I think this could possibly go down as a lost opportunity....

I found this angle to be a bit more interesting than shooting this straight on.

Thanks.

You have some really wonderful mountain shots. Excellent work!

Thank You!

this is really a beautiful individual, great job

very beautiful shot. the smother of those machineries gives a great effect to the image

Great shot

Good perspective and nice framing to include the steam/smoke. Nice long exposure. You've turned an eyesore into something nice to look at. Good shot.

Wow...beautiful industrial it is. For me it may be just a touch over sharpened but it could be my monitor.

duplicate layer, set blend mode to overlay, then high pass filter. play a little with the slider to achieve the best result.

thanks Vernon, I'll have to give it a try.

So Vernon, I couldn't wait and I was trying it a bit... What sort of a radius do you use. Such as a photo this size, I imagine you used like a 2 pixel radius. Is that correct? Also is this instead of a sharpening step. The results seem similar to sharpening... Thanks for your help and again great image:)

Really amazing. You should be teaching a class! (You kind of are right here at vazaar!) Really wonderful.

@tanner
I always process my files at full size/frame. the radius depends of the motive, of the richness of details, etc. ther is no value as standard. sometimes I use 2-3 px sometimes 200.

wow. this is very good. Is it one of the converted churches in Turkey?

Yes Adis. This photo was taken inside "aya Sofia" in Istanbul.. which used to be a church but was later converted into a Mosque.

very interesting. unique perspective.

I really like the different take here and this has a great perspective. It does need a little more light on the face itself though to bring it out more than the background. Now it tends to blend in too much.

When I first worked the image I cropped the guys face out and made it its own layer. Then I gave it some more light while making the BG darker. But it kept getting washed out so I ended up only being able to do this a little bit.

A bit more light on the face/eyes and I also miss a clear focus point. I like the crop.

love the shot, and I agree with what has been said already, I also think that possibly a tad (really just a touch) less DOF to blur the bg might help out.

The image has all the right balance in color in my opinion, no need for cropping it's a generally beautifully composed photo. I love the snow adds a near the forest.

Sometimes the sky puts on such a show that it is impossible to get it wrong. This was just that sort of sky. For this topic, however, I rate mostly on the basis of "is the sky the dominant element?" While the sky is clearly the key element, in this shot the foreground actually dominates the scene. Someone suggested cropping th sky down. I disagree. Rather, I would crop the bottom third, losing that large mass of grass in the foreground. This will make the sky (and the lovely evening glow on the trees) really jump from the image.

Wow! That's my instant reaction. Spectacular shot, well done. Where was it taken?

I can't find anything to critisize and wouldn't crop off anything.
I guess this is a HDR image. How many images did you use?

I love the ray of light in the back.
Maybe the lightning of the scene seems to be "artificial" but the result please me...

Perhaps when Brandon offers the before/after features I will upload some other versions. You know when you get tired of looking at a photo? This is one of those for me :) Thanks for the kind comment though. Good to see that it is still getting views.

I have to agree with BioLarzen...;-) Excellent shot.

Wonderful!!! He looks unbelievably

Congrats on the feature Jamie. Well deserved.

This is a little too "warts an all" in terms of lighting. A little retouching wouldn't go amiss. It's a cheeky little image though, and is deserving of it's feature status.