portraits Rolling For Napoleon.

no studio light, just available light. comment & ratings Please.

very good composition and light...especially the attention on the face...congrats.regards.

Very difficult shot, regarding the light & motion. However, the blurred hand and central subject steal the 6/6 from this image. Look how I would have enhanced the composition (including sharpening up of the dice):

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fine arts, abstract your cropping will pass, but this one is under portrait, very strict compliance regards DSC. i made 87 shot to get this. pure hard work.

Nice work, DSC! It's very difficult to shoot this. With moving arm and hand it's complete!.Best regards, from NL, Ruud.

i appreciate you kind comment and observation. it was a very frustrating shot. i got it when their about to finish the game cause i wanted to keep everything natural. this is one of the two acceptable photos after several attempt. thanks again for the support. best regards DSC.

Perfecta imagen, magnifico encuadre, excelente luz, color y bella composicion, un cordial saludo Demosthenes.

thanks for visitng mr. Carmona. best regards DSC.

An applause for your determination. A good attempt. The body is too dark, blending into the background, seeming to make his head hanging suspend in the air. Overall an original idea & execution.

these is a classic demonstration of low budget portrait shot. lighting is quite difficult to control. you just have to find the right angle. i used table lamp for illumination. the background i use regular black cheap cloth with safety pins attach to the hanging cabinets then my little ever reliable casio ex z-850. these is my second portrait shots using the same set up. thanks for a very warm comment Cherlyn. best regards DSC.

Man stop this great work with that little camera...:D Great picture and ilike the hand there. Wade Rose

i have to capture the face, hand & dice with less blur at the same time. i used multi focus mode, multi meter at high speed, 1600 iso, 1/1600 with a hack camera firmware. 87 trial & error shots with little noise. thanks for the encouraging comment Wade. best regards DSC.

i think this is terrific just as it is. i love his body fading into the background - like he is an apparition appearing from the dark to throw the dice. what fortune will the dice tell? another magical shot!

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Really nice and interesting photo!

(Thanks for your friendly comment!)

your comment is very much appreciated. regards DSC.

One more excellent shot of Demosthenes.Very creative use of black.Your friend Michael.

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Great shot ! cheers Jana

its my honor you visit my photo, your a well know photographer here in PN. thanks again best regards DSC.

I see you have captured well the dices, but the boy`s face is overexposed. Maybe you can arrange that in PhotoShop :) or to put less light! Did you use a Flash here for the movement?

 

Thank you,

Biliana

very good observation. hope in the future i can buy good lighting system. the one i use is a 10 cent soft tone philips bulb inside a lamp shade. no control at all. its only enough to luminate.no flash just available light. i'll follow your advice try to correct it using software. madam thanks to your kind words. best regards DSC.

I am using Philips Bulb too for all my portraits, cause I dont have a Studio yet :)

But with the "Burn Tool" in PS, you can darken the Face cher Monsieur DemoShtenes!

 

Bisous,

Biliana

 

P.S. If you are going to call me something like Madame, I have to tell you that I am still MadeMoiseLLe :)

 

Merci :)

lets continue the conversation. i don't know what happen that day i promised my nephew nonoy that i'm going to make honest portrait of him while they are playing the war game. i told him i want to capture the very intense facial expression during the mids of the battle. infact even my friend mr. D Are is not happy for the quality of the dice. may be because of the nature of the game waterloo, napoleon. i wanted to record a piece of history with very minimal PS used. which turns out to be short. anyway in just a matter of few months i learned so much here to co-photographers. i love this place. many many thanks to your very interesting and educational review. ill follow exactly what you told me. in my future posting for portraits. best regards DSC.