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Comment by e301:
Hi Wes, from critique club.

Well I meant what i said that it was the best of the lava shots - unfortunately you fell into the common subject hole. It obviously meets the challenge perfectly.

The deformation of the image is a problem: at least for me. It looks like you've got very close to the nearest lamp, and that's added the lens distortion to the further one. If you shoot from further away, this becomes less of a problem - use the zoom! besides that - colour is excellent, focus is fine, and the moment you've captured is a great illustration of the process of the lamp - so no problems there.

As to the final score - and 57th place ... I think that's about right really; there's nothing inspired about it from the lighting or subject angle, and placing higher would be too much to hope. Ideas to get it to do better? I think I'd have tried to light the outside of the lamp a little (difficult, but probably worth it), to give some shape to the image as well as the creepiness of the lava.

Good luck in future

ed

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Comment by roleychiu:

Originally posted by evmariedogs: this is the 3rd lava lamp try to be more creative

hahaaha. uh..... ok.... sure..

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Comment by Heather-Mae:
Now that is a cool picture and a how'd you do it submission. It looks like it took a lot of patience.

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Comment by Nate Goldman:
Nice shot.

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Comment by agwright:
my eyes go to the lava lamp which in IMHO is out of focus but I know how hard it is to photograph glass ... cool photo all the same 8/10

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Comment by NicNic101:
Lavas are great!

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Comment by puppy52:
oohh how did U get the green ghostly part out of the lamp? :P cool ;P

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Comment by e301:
Best lava-lamp shot so far: unfortunately that isn't saying much.

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Comment by roleychiu:
nice composition. i know focus was tough, but it could have been a bit cleaner. good crop. much more interesting than the other lava lamp shots.

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Comment by ScottK:
I tried this for "Round". You did a little better than I was able to. One tip on lessening or eliminating those jaggies at the edge of the lamp: try resizing in steps. Instead of going straight from the full image down to 640x480 (or whatever), resize at about 10% increments. It works great most times.