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All comments appreciated. Let me know what you think! Thanks. -
Ratings are nice, but comments are nicer. Please let me know what you
think, good or bad. Thanks.
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Camel safari outside of Pushkar, India. Ratings and especially
comments appreciated. Thanks!
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I really appreciate all your comments. I agree the seagulls are a little distracting, but I don't like to manipulate my images too much. Just a personal preference! -
Scene at the International Fountain in the Seattle Center. Ratings
and especially comments appreciated. Thanks!
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What works about this photo, and what doesn't? All comments
appreciated. Thanks.
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Especially all the specifics you've mentioned. I'm glad some of you liked it. :)
I agree about the focus; if you saw the full size original (the large size here is about 1/4 size) you'd see that the flowers just beyond the girl are actually the sharpest things in the image. Several things conspired against me here to make her face a little soft: she was running, the wind was blowing the tulips, it's a handheld shot with a telephoto lens, the moment was very brief and I'm using a new camera and had it on the wrong autofocus setting for the situation (never had autofocus before). Next time I'll do better. Still, I don't think it's horribly bad as her face doesn't have any sharp lines or features anyway. I can always play around with USM in Photoshop before printing. I agree that her expression could be better as well, but I don't know what I could have done about that!
I deliberately placed her facing out of the image, however. She was running through the tulips and leaving a path almost like a wake behind her, which was enhanced by the long shadow. If it looks like she's about to step out of the frame, it's because she was! I wanted to get that sense of motion into the image.
BTW, it's not cropped or edited in any way, beyond the in-camera autosharpen (which I forgot to turn off) and using an image editor to reduce the size of the image for posting.
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What works in this photo, and what doesn't? All comments appreciated.
Thanks.
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What are your impressions of this image?
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A stray cat resting by a tomb in Recoleta cemetary. What do you
think?
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Thanks for the comments. I wasn't thinking about the reflection at all when I took the shot. Looking through the windowpane there was a really neat kind of tunnel effect from the refracted images of the far window, and that's all I was trying to shoot. If not for the reflection, the rest of the photo would have been fairly dark and reinforced the tunnel effect (I think).
If I did it again, I'd use a polarizer to eliminate the reflection, or I'd try to make the reflections more interesting (or at least in focus!). I can't reshoot this because it's thousands of miles away, unfortunately.
It wasn't a really bright day, so I was shooting with ISO 400 - hence the graininess. This is also a scan of a print, so the quality of this image isn't as good as it could be. Grain doesn't generally bother me too much, though. I prefer a documentary/photojournalist-type style.
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I intended to take a photo of a window, through another windowpane
with beveled edges. When I got the picture back, I was surprised to
see myself. Although this wasn't intentional, I like the effect. I
guess my question is, does this photo work? Do the reflections make
it more interesting, or just too busy? Are the multiple subjects
(blue arch and myself) just too confusing? What is your reaction to
this picture?
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