country girl

please critique

i love it!

Beautiful mood!

Nice One, I love it!

I like the vintage look. Very nice mood.

Michael, I am glad that you didn't add digital "texture" this photograph. I know some people like that sort of thing, but I usually find it as tacky and distracting as artificial vignetting.

 

This series has become better and better. Unlike most people here who try to re-create the look of photography from a century ago, it appears that you at least have done your homework and have carefully studied genuine vintage prints. Simply adding digital sepia to a photo does not make it look old. I really wish more people who attempt that technique would spend time looking at this wonderful folder of yours. Your work really does remind me of the Pictorialists' work of the late 19th Century. Very few photographers pull off the illusion as well as you do without using wet plates.

 

The model's attire is perfect for this shot, as it is very difficult to put a date on the fashion. It is the little details like that which elevate your work to the high level. The only element which seems out of place here is the model's hair. (However, I admit to really nit-picking now). Face it; women a century ago would never have worn their hair like that, especially cut that short. I believe that the effect could have been maintained better by just having her brush it back behind her head.

 

But again Michael, I think that you are one of the very few photographic artists who can create "vintage" photography that looks anything of the sort. My highest regards.

beautiful tones and effects !

THIS is amazing! You have a wonderful eye for beauty...I am soo envious right now! ~ Laura

Great work!

 

Very nice effort, the blur effect doesn't look natural at all and need to be redone (I assume that it is either Photohop or some darkroom trick, I never saw any lens that really had that sort of signature). In short, the blur effect starts too far away from the center and the loss of definition is MUCH too brutal. Start closer to the center and make the blur effect much more gradual. Also keep in mind that soft focus or badly corrected lenses tend to make the highlights "glow". You should perhaps play with this effect as well.