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Composition? Lighting? Interest?

My guess is that this young woman has an amazing and probably an unfortunately torturous story. Your photographs start to tell it, or at least make us wonder what it is.

 

What does the red text say (above her breasts, below "Once upon a time")?

Is this the same woman you photographed in the early to mid 80s?

Like a modern Cartier-Bresson.

I'm not crazy about her left foot: its bent-back big toe, its positioning, or its inclusion in the photo at all. And the clipping of her left arm and the resulting two little fingers intruding from the right edge of the frame are not desirable either. You've posted some nice work here, but in my opinion this is not among your best.

Are you hand-holding your camera at a high ISO? They usually don't permit tripods in these churches. Regardless, it's a beautiful image of a beautiful church.

How did you meter this? Compensation at -3?

Chuck, this is a nice image. Congratulations on seeing something worthy of capturing here. Many people would've just passed this by. Nice composition, though I might've included a little more at the left, instead of cutting off that piece of plastic. I think also that this would have been more effective if you'd opened up your lens to a larger aperture, thereby shortening the depth of field. I think the background buildings and silos are too sharply in focus.

This is a nicely-composed image. And I like the toning you've done. It's just a shame that the sign is attached high on the lamp post. I don't see a way to compose with the rounded portion of the pier and still exclude that darn sign.

Nicely done. A lesser photographer might have stood right under the intersection of the two stone arches. Your decision to move to the side an produce an asymmetric image was a good one. I like the light too.

Lovely, lovely portrait. Beautiful light, beautifully composed. Wow.

One of the best photographs of the male nude that I have ever seen. You've captured/created sculpture with light.

A beautiful photo. Maybe cropped a little too tightly at the top and bottom, but these are wonderful faces, especially in relation to one another.

Was this complex designed by Santiago Calatrava? What is it?

Wonderfully clean composition. Well done.

I don't know what you are trying to do here, but I find her posture very strange. Her lean implies forward motion, like she's about to take a step, but it looks as if her left hand is caught in the door. What was your goal with this pose?

This is a gorgeous photo and well-composed with the child placed in just the right position. However, I question the presence of the umbrella. It's not raining. The sun is not high enough to require an umbrella for shade. Other than as an obvious prop for this photo....there's no reason for it to be there. The same effect could have been achieved with a colorful translucent scarf, something that a child might spontaneously wave. Other than that, congratulations on a nice achievement. Well done.

Critiques and ratings welcomed.

Nice work, creating an original composition. Very sculptural. I might crop just a bit from the right side to eliminate that little dark area at the intersection of the model's shoulder and neck.

Jody, On the issue of gray shadow for the owl, I wonder if it is because the shadow is so much farther from the object, the owl, casting it. So more light, reflecting from the snow, fills the shadow, lightening it. With the mouse or vole, the shadow is an inch from its source, therefore it remains more distinct.

Regardless of these questions - WOW!

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Interesting and creative construction of an image recording device...but to what effect? To my eye and taste, the image is not appealing.

It has been too long since you last treated us to your beautiful work. Glad to see you posting again. This is an amazing photograph, with dramatic lighting that is hard to understand. It appears that her hair is backlit and there even seems to be a backlit highlight on her left forearm. Is the after-the-storm sunlight, behind her, but out of the frame to our left? And then did you fill in with flash?

A remarkable achievement and a beautiful image!

Here too, you need to bounce some light with a white panel to our left of the subjects. The mother's face is too shaded. My guess is that you have one light source, hard to the right of the pair of people. It's nice and soft, but you ned some fill.

This is superb, especially in terms of the interaction between mother and child. The only flaw is that both faces are a little too much in shadow: mother, because the light is almost at her back and baby, because she's in the shadow of her mother. The light source seems too much directly to the right. It should be moved forward, toward the photographer, a little bit to cast more light on the baby's face and maybe you could use a white panel of some sort to the left of the subjects to bounce a little light into mother's face too.