2nd Place Beyond the sky * by ctfchallenge

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Beyond the sky *


20-OCT-2005	alexeig

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alexeig		26-Oct-2005 08:07
Many thanks for all comments!

Guest		25-Oct-2005 13:06
excellent!!!! -Cat

ctfchallenge		24-Oct-2005 05:50
Really fun shot.....great composition would be a good one framed, Yvonne

ctfchallenge		22-Oct-2005 00:36
Well seen, Alexeig. It has an almost other-worldly, magical feel to it. --Mary Anne

Canon DSLR Challenge		21-Oct-2005 23:55
very nice. (*) it needs to be rotated just a hair. theFly

ctfchallenge		21-Oct-2005 18:05
I just really liked how this imaged fooled my mind for a bit before I really understood what was going on. hehe, yep I got it at the end ;) -Techo

ctfchallenge		21-Oct-2005 12:06
Well you framed this perfectly ~ it almost looks like an underground city of sorts. It's very deceptive to the eye at first glance. Nice job. It makes me proud to be 1/4 Norwegian! Hehehe.... ~Britt

ctfchallenge		21-Oct-2005 11:48
As I already said: brilliant idea and execution :-) ~ Armin (ArminB)

alexeig		21-Oct-2005 11:11
Many thanks everybody for comments. Armin and Abstract: I live in Trondheim, Norway. This is quite far to the North, in fact without Gulfstream the place would have been uninhabitable. We have a maritime type of climate with very changeable weather and lots of nice clouds. Besides, due to the Northern location the sun travels very low and this brings a lot of unusual lighting. This makes often nice sky shots. Then, we have lots of dull grey skies too with low clouds, but I do not shoot sky on such days Techo: the upper part is just plain sky while the lower part is a cityscape shot through window glass which reflects the sky Rich: we do see the cityscape through glass ArminB: This is about 70% of original frame with levels, brightness/contrast + saturation + USM, no other "magic" involved Markjay, these things are actually the construction stuff sitting on the top of the opposite building Rod: you are dead on, this is exactly this type of rotating window around horisontal axis

ArminB		21-Oct-2005 08:06
WOW, this one fooled me completely. Brilliant...hm..._if_ there is no PS magic involved :-) Scandinavia? Oh, of course, the red devil from Norway :-)

Rod		21-Oct-2005 07:10
It looks like one of those windows where the bottom half opens out thereby picking up the reflections in the sky. Armin, Alexei lives in one of those foreign countries in Scandinavia:-)

ctfchallenge		21-Oct-2005 02:22
Great shot, Alexeig! Is that a window lock on the ledge of that window top pane? Or is that something we are seeing on the top of the building across the way? Very intrigueing. Markjay

ctfchallenge		21-Oct-2005 00:26
It's very good Alexig but are we seeing anything through the glass or just the reflection? rich

ctfchallenge		20-Oct-2005 21:51
Great crop! at first I thought this was a see through glass balcony and then what looked like two chairs in the distance but how did they get there LOL. Simple and yet makes you think but I got it at the end :) -Techo

ctfchallenge		20-Oct-2005 21:27
True, Alex, curious: where do you live? ~ Armin

ctfchallenge		20-Oct-2005 20:57
you always have such a dramatic skies in your shots. what a beautiful place you live in. btw i liked the shot too. -Abstract

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