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This is certainly a great catch. The expressions, to me, are timeless. It's conveyed very clearly that these people aren't in a familiar place. However, the gaussian blur is a bit too strong. Pull back that slider a little, and I'd like this a little more.

 

I'm noticing nobody's cropped this yet... what's wrong? =)

Laughed out loud. Great catch!

I like the colors, and love the point of view. I only wish the foreground weren't quite to underexposed. I feel slightly cheated. However, there is also the possibility that this may hurt more than help. Maybe I'm undecided.

I don't know if it's the long focal length, or what, but it sure comes across as rather flat. With this kind of lighting, I'm also not sure I would have gone with Kodak 400. And now that I think of it, I may have cropped it a little tighter. However, I think the basic elements are there, good subject matter, even lighting, nice saturation. I wouldn't make this one black&white, though. I think it may lose it's certain "je ne sais quois."

Look at the dancers! Great idea!

I don't think that's shadow, but typical skin tones.

Fun idea here, Vladimir, thanks!

Wow, I thought it was a sculpture of a man with his arms in the air when I first saw it. I like how he's resting his foot on the bottom edge of the frame. Great capture.

Bumped too hard, it seems.

Good job catching the edge of the new stadium on the right. As I read across this photo like a book (left to right), I thought along thie lines of sadness and legacies. Then the surprise of the new stadium popped into view. Is it a social commentary, maybe, that we don't have time to reminisce? All in the name of innovation, I guess.

I never even noticed the dog! Subtle, I like it.

Fantastic! The underlighting is extremely interesting! To capture the snow with that light is a great bonus. Both the height and being lit from underneath make the boarder out to be absolutely flying! And he's supposed to land somewhere? Wonderful shot!

 

I'd also like to know more about the lighting source and how you go this shot with Velvia.

Is that Tony?!

Wow. When I saw the thumbnail, I thought "Hey, that looks like the indoor pool at Hearst Castle, but it can't be, because they don't allow tripods in there."

 

Nice steady shot, I've always been too afraid to try it, but I've never had such a fast lens, either. I've always wanted to try a polarizing filter in there, too, to see into the pool, but we're talking about REAL SLOW shutter speeds, then.

I find the background mountain to be strangely 2-dimensional. Interesting effect.

 

As far as landscape, I might angle the camera a little lower. At this point, I'm not sure if there's a subject at all. Panning down might emphasize the beach. Just a thought.

Wow, I like it! I love the detail in the noisy background! I would very much consider something like this for a wall hanging. Thank you for sharing!

Nice colors. The reflection in the water is a little hot, but it still has a nice mood. I can almost taste that air.

To help emphasize the speed of the car, it's probably best to leave either the car or the background in focus. This will help demonstrate the difference in speed between the two.

 

As for shutter speeds, that's extremely variable, depending on how fast the cars are moving. That's something you'll have to play with yourself to decide. If the car is moving only 40MPH (64 kph), it's going to take a seemingly very long shutter speed to catch that speed, and you'll have to be real steady panning with the car. If the car is moving 200MPH (320kph), you'll have much more to work with.

 

Take a pen and paper and scratch down notes on each shot, see what you get.

Cmon, guys! It's a digital shot out in the daylight, and the animal was cut and pasted into a new background. This isn't a desert animal. This animal lives in broken shade, which is why the stripes offer such perfect camoflauge.

 

Anyway, decent job cutting, I guess. I'm not real big on the background choice, though. It mizes in too well with the animal's colors, and seems overly dramatic. Just me. Sorry.

Wow, that is a beautiful place! I really like seeing clear water ("daylight") under the closer boat.

 

This has to be a really hard shot to get right. You've got the full daylight up above, and the dark cavern, the subject you actually want to shoot. I'd have panned this shot a little further down, putting more emphasis on the water and cropping out the sky entirely. Getting rid of the sky will also leave the depth of the cave unknown, a mystery, adding to the magical feeling this shot could create. Your shutter speeds will slow down DRASTICALLY with this, and it may require a seriously strong diffused flash. I'd love to spend some time in there getting it right, though. Great location.

Great color, great image. Perfect exposure. I've got to try that film! My only complaint would be that the main subject, the block in front, really hinders the landscape effect, but I don't think that's what you were going for here.

Oh, how badly I want to see those elbows! This is making me claustrophobic. He's saying "Let me out of this box!"

Nice and sharp, nice vivid colors! Something's bothering me about the composition, though. All the lines point up to me, not down to the man in front. For that reason, my eye keeps moving out to see the spot where a third person would assumably go. What were those white things, they appear to have been moving.

I like this one. It has much better lighting than Duhamel, and a full bike. The only complaint on this one is that you're on the outside of the turn. That's not a problem, in itself, but motorcycle drivers always tend to lean INTO the corner, for some reason, hiding behind the bike.

A little dark, overall, but the whites look fully exposed, so that's a hard one. Too bad the windscreen is covering his "face." And I'd like to see the whole bike. Provia has a real cool tendency, and that appears to have happened here. Maybe a fill flash and/or warming filter would have helped.

Very interesting study. I would have only hoped for better color, I guess. The milk looks awfully pale in the vertical walls where it's obviously very thin. Perhaps softer and more full lighting would have helped.

 

However, congratulations on a pretty decent catch, even if it did take 400 tries .