brian_m2

January 11, 2010

Beautiful. I feel cold just looking at it. How did you avoid lens flare?

March 6, 2007

There are digital manipulation artifacts in the picture. It seems like this was manipulated.

April 15, 2004

There's a fair amount of PS artifacting around the flower, which distracts. But otherwise very good.

April 10, 2002

It's like "Silence of the Lambs" or something . . . "the serial killer, having made a mask from his victims' skins, stares into the camera gleefully . . . "

Creepy.

March 18, 2002

I don't. I think it's just gross.

March 7, 2002

That's a great gag. We were in town 3 years ago for a conference and the vendor lunged the fish at my buddy, who screamed like a girl and leaped backward, almost knocking about 4 people over. I couldn't breathe.

March 7, 2002

Good photo. He looks like he's contemplating having you arrested.

March 7, 2002

I like your subject and concept here, but you've made some technical errors by overlapping the bell and the church that are quite jarring. Also, in a picture like this I would have focused on making the white church really stand out as white, and it seems too gray/dark on my monitor (though it might be my monitor). You maybe could have opened the exposure up a stop.

March 2, 2002

I like it. Very tantalizing. She is really extremely beautiful.

February 27, 2002

but please, spare us any more pictures of old men in Speedo's! :)

February 21, 2002

Second that.

February 21, 2002

Fantastic!

February 15, 2002

I meant exposure time, thanks.

February 15, 2002

You've lost all detail in the darks (e.g., the guy standing on the left is just a shape) and your whites (see the pad lower right) is closer to grey than the white it should be. I think it's an easy fix, as the entire print is too dark. I would back off the developing time 3-5 seconds. You may have too little contrast here as well; I would try a print at 10 seconds at grade 2 and, if the shadow detail is there, try another at grade 3.

February 15, 2002

Anyone who doubts the sharpness of Zeiss should look at the detail and separation in the tree branches! Nice composition, but the tilted horizon doesn't work for me (maybe it's not tilted enough for the effect you're after?). That's subjective, obviously, and I can see how a lot of people will like it. I see it as something of an unnecessary effect in such a moody and otherwise thoughtful picture, that it borders on gimmickry (though that word may be more harsh than I mean).

January 24, 2002

I like it but think the bottom is too cluttered with irrelevant objects. Overall, though, it evokes that feeling of warmth and comfort just before braving the hostile outdoors.

January 24, 2002

Is that the stand where the guy pulls the string and the fish jumps up at you?

January 24, 2002

I think it's fantastic. His expression really captures the sense of stunned depression that gripped the country. And the foreground image of people holding cloths to their noses highlights the physical horror of the event and renders the focused man's failure to cover his face that much more evocative of the shock he must have felt.