I was at a glass blowing demonstration on Saturday and took a bunch of pics. This ended up being my favorite. All C&C welcome.

1D Mark III
ISO 100
50mm at f2.8
1/200 sec
-1 1/3 ex comp
slightly cropped top and right
lightened up the shadows in PS

Take care,
Joe

Hmm. It's a good composition, but I might zoom in a bit. It's sort of part in many areas, reducing the amt of information that the viewer can see... but I'm not sure that it's so bad like that, sort of adds to the mystique.

GB

Interesting image. I would suggest crop from the left so that only the brick in the middle is in the frame. Also, I see you lighten the shadows . . .I think darkening them so that the image is about the shape of the fire and the prong and whatever is illuminated by the flame. Less would be more in this image.
Pretty good.

The background looks a little tilted to me. Otherwise it is fine and I really appreciate the way you captured the reflection of the furnace on the pipe in the foreground.

Thank you for the comments and suggestions. I cropped a little more from the left and bottom. I also brought down the exposure of the shadows and kicked up the contrast a bit. Is this example better or not drastic enough? I think the lines and form are brought out more as a silhouette. Feel free to modify this image and repost.
Thanks again.

I think your edit nails it. The only bad part is that it looks like a devil worshiping symbol ?! (that might be a little xtreme, but it does seem odd ... gothic at least).

G

I like the edit. Looks good.

Joe,

I really like the symmetry, but feel that the exposure in the earlier photo worked better as it showed the detail of the holder in the foreground.

There's some slight depth of field issue at play as well here, so perhaps the silhouette is more what you wish to present. This one has lost some detail. The lighting, framing/composition are a good concept!!