steve coburn

If you were to play about with the curves setting on this image you can make it look like a dusk shot. (Image quality is really low due to the jpeg compression).

I love the reflection of the sun on the water and the darkening of the boat and docks. The shot is well composed and really pulls your eye into the image.

 

Steve Coburn

You took this in Antwerp??? I've never even seen any grass there...

 

Nice photo, but the composition may have been improved by not having the main ear in the centre of the picture, but more to one side. (Rule of thirds?) It looks very static at the moment.

 

Steve Coburn

I know that this is just a sample photo of the case, but if you want to do 'product shots' try a neutral background. The big rolls of white poster paper from Staples are excellent for this. I believe that your SB800 can be used off camera so try using that as a light source (slightly above and to one side), use the camera on a tripod so you can take your time and take lots of shots to get everything just right without having to remember the camera position each time.

This reminds me of photos taken back in the early 20th century of mine workers and the like. Maybe more contrast and grain would help give it a period feel. However it is modern and I find it fasinating to know about other people's work places.

I really like this shot, a bird on each of the posts. Did you have to wait long or were they just there. I think that you've cropped this and it looks good, the eye is nicely drawn into the image as the birds become progressively smaller and more blurred.

Perfect depth of field. I like the way the fingers show the scale of the lizard and how tiny it really is.

Great cropping and a fun photo, but as mentioned earlier the dog is overexposed. Have you tried reducing the brightness on a computer? How much of the image did you crop out because I feel that this is only a tiny part of a full frame?

Not as effective as 'fish on the wall'. The background image swamps out the forground image too much. The image of your son is too tightly cropped. However it is a good idea and gives me something to steal for my own photos!

 

Steve Coburn

I like this a lot! I know how difficult it is to take double exposures and I think that you've pulled this off wonderfully. Maybe the fish image could have been moved to the left so there was less plants and the fish were swimming into more empty space? However apart from that, well done.

 

Steve Coburn

I like this goat, it looks humerous and it's a fun picture. Composition might have been improved by composing / cropping the image so that the goat was one third from the right, and not so dead centered.

Just to clarify my comment above which I've re-read. I don't mean "Truly awful" in a bad sense. There is something sinister about the religous character which gives me the creeps! I mean "Truly awful" in the sense of 'I wouldn't want it put up on my wall', but I do have a morbid fasination with this image. Technically it is a good photo (except as mentioned before the dof), so I hope that my comment didn't read as criticism. Sorry for any confusion.

I like this too, especially because you can not see the beach - unusual in a beach photo! The walkway pulls your eye between the dark bushes to the sunset where the only real weakness appears. There is a lot of colourless sky! This could do with either being cropped out (see attachment), or darkened by sacrificing some of the foreground detail and underexposing the image. If you camera can bracket exposures, this would be a good place to try it.

but I can't help looking at it! I understand the intent behind it - little child looking like they're in prayer - but there is just something truly horrid about the male figure - is this intentional?

 

The image is a little cluttered around the head due to the street furniture; shallower dof needed? Great contrast between the white and blacks so I'm wondering if you have tinted the ground - it looks too pink to be natural!

 

All in all, a fun photo, awful, but fun! :-)

A powerful picture although I suspect that the original print is even more imposing! The contrast, shadows, and general composition all add up to give something that I would hang on my own wall.

Great use of the fence both as a boundary and as a subject in the picture. It nicely draws the eye in down towards the sea. Not 100% sure if the horizon is in the right place, but that is a minor detail in an otherwise excellent photo.

is what I see when I look at this photo. It is just so eye catching. The irregularity of the sleepers and the kink in the rail gives an impression of neglect. I live in the UK so this makes me feel at home...

 

One question, is the image tinted?

Looks a lot like an old Essex Barn (Essex in the UK that is!) The sky is very imposing and I feel I'm going to see a flash of lightning at any time, did a storm follow shortly afterwards? Composition suggestion: Could you have taken the shot from further back to bring in a greater sense of remoteness by showing more to the right of the Grain bin (the little one)?

The dark ground which the hikers are walking on seems to distract from my feelings of remoteness, an occassion when the rule of thirds does not give the best composition? A 10 second crop is attached, not perfect, but gives a rough idea. However great silhouettes of the hikers.

No, I'd leave it as it is. I don't personally like too much post processing so I always try to avoid it where possible. The contrast between the colours of the lilly and the dark, almost black water really pulls your eye into the photo. At the same time the lilly pad in the bottom right adds an interesting contrast, especially with its own pattern. The only 'down' to the photo is the rolled up leaf which looks like litter at first glance, and the dust on the water, but if that's what was there when you took the photo, then what can you do?

I like the contrast between the line of windmills dropping down to the right, with the ridge climbing up to the right. Would a slow exposure have been possible in order to get an effect of motion from the blades?Pitty the windmills themselves are such an eyesore, give me a good old fashion nuclear power station anyday... :-)

Cile said what I wanted to say but first... Good portrait.

not because it is a poor photo, but because even as a non yank I find the people in it offensive and very unaesthetic...I can understand why the anti-gay brigade is protesting at a church they feel promotes homosexuality - that is their business, but what is the relationship between that and September 11th?

A pitty you didn't have a tripod because I find the blurring of the lamp post a little distracting from the rest of the shot. perhaps if it was re-taken with a tripod, or at a slightly different angle or the post was cropped out of this shot it would improve the overall image.

However ignoring that it is a good shot and shows what cameras can do while in automatic mode.

Is this place real? Great composition, can you email me a bigger copy? An interesting contrast would be a photo of the village taken from the top of the peak... :-)