Hi, I still fiddle around with a table top and some tricky light settings but if this leads to nothing a thought about taking this one for the challenge.

Also I just try to calibrate my monitor, so my question:
The sky should be well exposed and the foreground should be
completely black...a least that's what I see here.

cheers
Thomas

Interesting shot! :-) IMO this is a bit dark for me. (It's just me, trust me. Gloomy Sunday...) (*

Hmm....for me the sky still seems to be lacking in contrast/brightness. My monitor seems to be calibrated darker than most, ughhh the icky task of monitor calibrating.

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Sorry Thomas on my monitor the sky is dark and the foreground is not completely black :O(

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Um I'm viewing this on a monitor which is typically a tad bit too light. for me the sky is fine and the forground int sompoletely dark. If fact midway acroos the image at the bottom I can see a blue section of the sky and on the far right I can see the boards on the building. Bsteph

On my monitor the sky is a bit dull, and I can still see details in the foreground... Interesting subject matter...and idea for the theme! :-)>

Thanks to all, I think I got it now. :-)

Still working on the other picture.
I hope I'll accomplish something in time and
don't burn down the house with my lightset. ;-)

Here's a very basic WIP

cheers and thanks again :-)
Thomas

Ohhh...I like that one! :-)>

Yeah! Nice one, perhaps a bit bigger in the frame, a lot of area to the left and right of the silhouettes. Maybe try portrait format. :O)

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