It's the lighting on the rim - right where focus is sharpest. Also the blue ring just below it helps to emphasize it. Basically makes your eyes jump right to that spot and keeps pulling them back.
-- Bruce Friday, July 13, 2007, 5:59:27 AM, you wrote: JD> I agree and I think it's partly due to the overall color tone. JD> Even though allowed to soften out, I can't seem to get past the near JD> connection of the base of the cup and the bottom of the frame. JD> Jack JD> --- frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Simple, to be sure. >> >> I take photos of coffee cups and simple objects about me all the time >> - did it in my pre-digital days, and do it much more now. >> >> I don't know what it is, but there's something about this one that >> seems to take it beyond the usual mundane mug shot. It's subtle, to >> be sure, but everything just seemed to work in this one.... >> >> http://tinyurl.com/226466 >> >> Comments always welcome. >> >> Thanks, >> frank >> >> >> >> -- >> "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> JD> ____________________________________________________________________________________ JD> Don't pick lemons. JD> See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. JD> http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net