Love the arrangement, but wish the shadowing wasn't there. Would like to see this arrangement with the light coming from perhaps the side that would also produce some highlighted areas. Just my opinion.

wonderful shot
"Yeah she may look gritty
When her man come back she gone look so pretty - She the Church
You might see her acting crazy, be patient with her tho cause she still God's baby "

The composition does a good job of making the lens distortion work. Nice photo.

Great shot =)

can you please tell us the setup for this HDR shot ?
and what program you used for merging & noise reduction!!!!

@m0nm0n: I shot the image using RAW files at the lowest ISO possible (100 - 200) and use Lightroom to create 3 different exposure images (+2, 0, -2). +2 to reveal the detail of the shadow, -2 to reveal the detail of the hightlight (sky). Then use Photomatix to merge the images creating the above image I hope that's helpful

Congratulations on second, lovely view and very good HDR effect

Thanks Orientallad

I honestly thought this was in the OTT contest, her skin is a very strange colour. Was this taken on a camera phone?

The requirement for OTT is different.. I suppose... and in India every bride carries such a make up during wedding day and as per the ritual & process the bride & groom sits before fire while the priest speaks wedding Mantras... so, here she is sweating and that is why her skin had such a color.

Thanks for the explanation.

a pure bong wedding....nice shot author....