ENTRIES & POLL- DICKENS Weekly Comp Mon 21st Jan 2013 to Sun 27th Jan 2013

[Beaux Reflets]

Cheers Howard.

I have to say stopping down to poor exposure levels (effectively limiting the sensors dynamic range) was intentional from an artistic approach rather than any technical aspect in work; An effort to achieve a soft dirty or earthy flat appearance in camera rather than toning down an image in post processing (which no doubt may annoy some).

Interestingly, and to my annoyance; I did however have to clone out an aspect of 'introduced bright light fringing' on the tip of the black candle wick, which I assume was a resulting aspect in relation to the Auto Focus operation (the down fall of systems relying on areas of contrast to obtain the desirable Focus).

[Reinardina]

Well done you two

Thanks H. It took me long enough to come up with something, but I managed in the end, and with results!