Glad you like it! There's only a tiny bit of crop on this one - and only to make the proportions a bit more square. Shutter speed was actually pretty slow for a shot this tight - 1/125th of a second. Sharpness is from the radio slave fired flash.
Photo-John
Wonderfull. I missed this when you posted it. But the Cover-love really says how great this image is. Congrats. I looks better here than on the cover but I guess that's part of the publication process.
-b
Thanks, Brian. I actually had a hard time finding a copy of the mag. Finally got one last night - it cost me $110 because Borders was having a sale on CDs - buy 3 get the 4th free.
The layout guys at Challenge did tweak it a little. They thought it was too dirty and "brown." I think it looks perfect like this. And there's the RGB to CMYK conversion, which usually does a little damage. I recently started doing the CMYK conversion myself to try to minimize the effect.
Photo-John
