Sorry, I wasn't clear enough in my statement regarding the composite ~ only because it is such a wonderful once in a lifetime shot someone could. think it was a composite. I didn't mean to imply that I thought it was! :)

I myself captured some lightening this summer, tho not nearly as dramatic or beautiful; but a cool thing anyway.

If you're interested, you can see it here:
visualpeace.blogspot.com/2007/10/not-best-picture-...

Lightning photos are my favorite. I also try to capture it but have yet to be successful. I love the picture and hopefully one day I will submit one as great as yours.

It's strange way of thinking but the fact that this image could easily be a composite makes it less important than it should be. Eventhough it real and what you capture is very unique we have seen it so many times in fake images and thus a little bit of magic and power is lost.
Of course as everybody else I think it's a brilliant shot anyway

Great shot. Timing IS everything. Lonely country feel, awesome.

amazing shot,not much critique possible,
but if i were nitpicking,i'd wonder what this shot would look like if it were wider.

I like your soft pastel colors.

i like the tones!

Great composition and love the texture of the shot

This photo is just fantastic.

I like this composition. The old man's face is very expressive. Good interaction with the man in the back.

impressive photography.

phantastic!

Wow, there is nothing like taking advantage of professional lighting. I like the expressions that you have captured in the various players' faces and how the focus is all on the girl. That is, of course, execept for the bloke with the tape measure who is concentrating on his job. I maybe would have liked the composition to be framed from a little lower viewpoint, maybe just below camera man eye height, but this is very minor.

i want to know more about the location and what's happen there.
it's interesting, but i think the compositon doesn't work very well with the cutted person right down. i had chosen a lower angle...

Hey Thomas, good point about the camera angle, I think you are right. I was just being lazy probably. This was taken during a HD video shoot for a "promo"/commercial for the NBC show "American Gladiator". The guy holding the camera is the DP (Director of Photography), the guy with the ruler is the camera operator, he is measuring for focus. During the take he will pull focus manually. The cutoff guy on the floor is providing wind from a fan to blow her hair around so she looks like she is outside.

I am the Visual Effects Supervisor for this project. We shot the talent on greenscreen and are now in the process of compositing them into stock footage backgrounds. I was just walking around with my camera shooting some candid stuff during the shoot.

Supercroma shooting!!!! wow!!! I use to work on cinema in Spain. For me the best of this photo is the way you show the camera show, with the DOP and the handcamera gadget like in "Babel" and focus guy with the meter. I love the green of croma, that shows the "new cinema".

I hope finally you have a good work with effects!!!

American Gladiators!

Great shot, Nick!

Cheers,
Jon

Beautiful colors and detail in the sky. Nice work.

just beautiful. great sky and well composed.

Great Sky!!

Increible el movimiento de el cielo.Ana.

Wonderful idea and execution.
I agree that this reminds me that these days are coming soon!

Very lovely - the composition is wonderful and the lines look to participating in a ballet together.
This almost looks like powdered sugar...

it reminds me to one images i took some years ago.
but nevertheless a nice one.
my one you'll find here:
taikrixel.net/daily/index.php?showimage=92

How wonderfully mundane and yet so unique. This is classic and quite printworthy. I'd be proud of this one

good one!

Great picture. Good use of black/white and depth.

Geez I wonder where you took this. ;)

nice one, but i think because of the high perspective there's to much surrounding area around the repetition.

thanks for your feedback, taikrixel :-)

about which repetition are you talking?

there are more repetitions in this pic,
the chairs
the stone flower tubs
the stairs
the statues
the small pillars in the curb
the water reflections in the sand ground

... only the human subject has no repetition :-)

breathtaking found and well captured!

@blaze883r

De Tenerife no, pero si he visitado la isla en julio, y quede encantado con ella. Tambien queriamos sacar una del auditorio con mas luz pero estabamos alojados en el sur y teniamos muchas cosas que ver aun por lo que al final no me fue posible.

Saludos!

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Thank you everybody for the comments, you help me a lot.

Gracias a todos por comentar, me ayudais un monton.

nice one!

Enhorabuena por el "Featured" ;)

Desde luego, la foto lo merece!

Gracias a todos por vuestros comentarios.

Gracias por el featured a la gente de vazaar.

Gracias Blaze883r por la felicitacion personalizada :).

No tengo mucho tiempo de seguir los progresos de vazaar ni las ultimas capturas de la gente.

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Thank you everybody for your comments.

Thank you for the featured to the vazaar stuff and all the people that contributes in this community. ;)

Lately i dont have much time to follow the progresses of vazaar and the latest photographs of the people here. Sorry for that.

See you soon!

Absolutely beautiful work - very mysterious and intriguing work. Love the light and atmosphere you have captured.

Cheers,
Jon

Sobrecogedora e impactante fotografia. La luz y los tonos crean el ambiente adecuado a la composicion. Enhorabuena. Saludos

Great composition!
I love the atmosphere you've created.

stunning composition and i like the dark mood in there. nice play with bw!

I love the composition...great photo!

Me gusta mucho. Felicidades.