josphy

Looks like the fill flash and sky are balanced about right, but the whole thing is too dark/underexposed. Or bring up your fill flash some more. Could easily be fixed in Photoshop or whatever editing software you use. Another possibility also if it looks right on your computer and then looks dark when you upload it here, that may be because f you are shooting in AdobeRGB color space and then save to web which uses sRGB -- I think that can cause things to look too dark.

beautiful quality to the light, really like the way the dark and light divide the frame almost in half but the subject is off-center.

Oh, yeah now I see it looks like you softened the face a little in photoshop...maybe go back with the history tool and get the eyes back sharp. I don't use digital/photoshop much, so I didn't realize that was it. BTW, lots of good photos in the rest of your portfolio.

Cute model caught my eye -- a few thoughts...focus looks to be off. Looks like the shoulder is in sharper focus than the eyes, which for a shot like this doesn't work. Gotta have the puppy dawg eye look in focus. Also, I just think the selectively desaturating everything except one particular color thing has been done to death. I just see it in the tacky mall glamor shot photos. I think this would be a great image just in color.

perfect use of depth of field

Who on earth is rating this 1/1? This is a very unique photo -- interesting subject matter, great tone in terms of the overall color & mood, the various glances of the different figures including the bust of David and the paintings on the wall. Only thing that distracts me somewhat is that bright spot from the (heart-shaped?) lamp in the back. Maybe you could burn that in a little, but otherwise bravo.

Yeah, what *is* that? This is like Mapplethorpe...except bad.

Intended as a graduation present for my friend. I think I'm making

a lot of progress when it comes to taking portraits, but I'm happy

for any and all advice.

I love it -- it's basically that shot that everybody takes at some point in their lives of a path lined by trees on either side, converging into the distance. BUT with one important difference -- you've made it original! I like it very much.

Noticed this kid intently listening to the musicians inside this

club during an Austin, TX arts/crafts festival on 6th Street.

Wishing now that I had backed up a bit to include a little more

context of the club exterior etc., but I still like the shot.

Overall I guess the highlights don't bother me too much. I like the mood of this photo. You might trying burning in the part in the middle right-hand side.

It reminds me of Andy Goldsworthy.

Just for the sake of discussion...I do think it's worth discussing the ethics of feedings the hawk. Maybe not just pertaining to this particular case, but just in general. It seems like it might be potentially a bad idea. One reason I can think of off hand: it might influence the animal to come closer to humans than it normally would/should posing a threat to humans or to the animal FROM humans. I suppose the animal could get "lazy" about finding its own source of food. I dunno...I'm sure that people who are more involved in nature photography could come up with other ideas. I'm definitely not one of those people who feels that moving a single twig is unethical, but I do think it is worth thinking about the ramifications of our actions beyond just getting a great photo. Nice photo, by the way, Cary.

The background looks much too busy for me. Too distracting. I would use a more neutral background or at the very least, move the subject further from the background and use shallow depth of field to throw the background out of focus.

Brilliant!

Hey, Frank -- this looks like it really has a LOT of potential. All those stones -- great tones and textures. Still though, I'm not sure you quite pulled it off in this picture. I'm certainly no expert, but I think trying this photo again with maybe a different quality of light. Maybe a yellow (or darker) filter would bring out a little contrast too and darken the sky (which is totally burned out in this example). Lastly, it looks all a little soft...which I think might just be the quality of the scan. So anyway I would definitely try this photo again, because it's gonna be a good one when you nail it!

Jeez! Agfa Vista = SATURATED color! Love it!

Hm...this is from a 6x12 negative...I'm thinking it might be a

stronger photo if I cropped the left side to about a 6x9 ratio. Any

suggestions?

I'm really getting a kick out of using my old folding Kodak Monitor

616. W/ a few modifications I'm using 120 film in it, and the

5.5x11cm negatives are a joy to behold. My little scanner doesn't

do them justice. By the way, this is my first time using infrared

film, and even though I didn't get strong IR effects with only a red

(25) filter, I'm hooked already!

just going back over some of my old pics with my new scanner...here is the new version...toned in photoshop

I have made a better print of one of my favorite photos, and I'm

curious to hear others' opinions. Better? Less moody than the

older version?

I just picked up an old Epson 1650 scanner to scan some 6x6 and 6x11 negatives, but I thought I would try it out on some 35mm too. This is one of my favorite photos, but I wanted to see if I could pull out more shadow detail and get a better "print" with my new scanner than I did with my amateur-ish wet darkroom skills. Voila! I'm pretty impressed with the results from this cheap-o scanner. I've replaced the photo in my portfolio with the new version, but here is the old version if anyone wants to compare.

Wow that's a really good observation about cropping -- I agree with the previous poster...you could crop this down this middle and have 2 good photos. I guess sometimes the parts are better than the whole.

Hey, Kim -- here's a new Bob Atkins article for you just in time! http://www.photo.net/learn/resize/

 

And, yeah I noticed a while back that we have the same camera -- I even started to comment on it back then. It's good to know we can still enjoy making photos w/out being hung up on the latest & great equipment huh? :-D

I wouldn't say creepy...just melancholy. Great atmosphere & the grain of the film really contributes to the mood/atmosphere for me.