Great image and use of negative space.

I agree with all... congrats for this study and to show that male forms can be very interesting when you
made a nice portrait. As friiskiwi told you, going to be hart to beat!

Some people will do anything to win!
Just joking. Very appealing, artistic and sexy.

fantastic

Excellent, going to be hard to beat.

Looks much better in High Res.

Great angle, makes this look like a blossom!

Beautiful

it works!!! I almost loose hope to see anything in this contest... You're the first Going to try other entries again

amazing!

It works so well! great job author!!

This is a realistic looking film grain and I agree with the author on the "feel" it adds to a photo. Unfortunately viewed as a stereograph this wonderful feature you have added doesn't really get noticed. Well composed and great show of depth, love the look of this one.

Works fine lol, Great photo and show of depth.

Nice photo but not working for me.

Very noisy the one on the left more so.

I think you should have a space in front of the aircraft, the light is not good, and the photo (looked at in hi-res) is not in focus.

I love the processing that you've done here.

Poor bloke - at least he still seems to have his sense of humour - I mean, check out that tie

my uncle had a nose similar to this mans...not quite as bad. He had cancer and just recently had his nose removed and a new one constructed for him. Poor guy

Fantastic shot and lighting!

Congrats

What's wrong with his nose? Great shot !

Very good shot!

Having made jewelry for 35 years, if I wanted a shot to emphasize one of my rings... this would be a great one. (If I wanted a shot to emphasize a girl's forehead - not so much!

wonderful

Nice shot, and only one item coloured.

ya know, I'm think that if this is in their catalog that has a black background, the shadow probably wouldn't be as noticible. Still though it is a great shot!

A bit of the bottom edge of the sweater could use a touch up -- nice picture

Great gems author, all 4 of them, GL

Fabulous fashion shoot....it reminds me on the pages of jewelry magazines...GL author

In my humble opinion - the shadow and highlight on her shoulder make the photo

the first thing I noticed was NOT the jewelry, it was the shadow on her beautiful face I like the concept of trying to make the emphasis more on the jewelry, but because it isn't sublte enough, the shadow overpowers the rest. Still a great shot though!

wow.
this is definitely what i expected from this contest. something JUST LIKE THIS!
well done. and i love the focus. truly meant for an advertisement in some jewelers catalog!

Beautiful!

No people in the shot Author

I think it's perfect !!

very beautiful.great shot

Beautiful, just wish the necklace was a little sharper

beautiful jewelry!! and fantastic shot!

Fantastic photograph! Thx for the explanation, I think it will help us newbies!

Beautiful, simply beautiful. What a stunning model and I like our lighting. One thing I'd change though is to lighten the right side of her face, I don't like that her forehead is in shadow. But other than that this is superb.

lovely

this is absolutely wonderful! It is something you'd see in a magazine.

Very nice. Maybe include more at the bottom to see the glass bases and stems?

Beautiful in high res, love the little 'cabin'

Absolutely stunning Author I really like this. Although you would have poor Ansel rolling in his grave with your underexposed areas. The whole reason for the zone system was to figure out how to properly expose the scene so you don't have under or over exposure. But since I don't personally agree with his theory I think you shot is superb

this look so cool....

That guy looks like he's about to get strafed

Almost looks like a robot face! Nice shot and angle!