davea1

I finally got around to replacing the original image. Look, no vignetting. That's what the critique system is all about, holding us all to a higher standard.

What can I say, I used a Brownie made in 1906 to take the photo. Someday, I'll photoshop the corners, but for the time being, I'm O.K. with it given how it was taken.

Yes, a difficult shot with a medium format camera. I had the 200mm on the Pentax 6x7 and was taking landscape photos of the nearby lighthouse. I came upon an area where the surfers go near the cliff I was standing on. I put some Provia 400 in the camera and put the shutter on 1/200th and shot a couple of rolls. I cropped to this size to keep the composition whole with the all the surrounding spray.

Thanks for the nice comments! These rock formations are very difficult to work with. There is so much chaotic visual information it is difficult to translate it into a coherent visual image. Take a look at some of my other photos of these rock formations for some surrealistic visual images--straight photography with no Photoshop manipulation other than dust spotting!

Would you go to this dentist?

After an uninspired day at the Pacific coast taking photos, I head

home on the back roads to San Jose, CA. I was done for the day,

thinking of home. I glanced back over my shoulder and guess what I

saw? I stopped the car, loaded my camera with film in the dark, put

it on a tripod and started shooting.

I love the old curved tree trunk! Great near-far composition.

Yes, it may be a common theme, but for some reason this one is quite compelling. The composition is well balanced; the focus of near-far well done. I like the man-hole cover between the two puddles.

At first glance, it looks like an abstract image. Fairly soon you realize that it's fingers on a mirror--then you see the long dark hairs. I'm not sure what "Wait please" means.

Very nice composition! Good repetition of the dune peaks, great contrast without blowing out detail.

Nice "Ray of Light" effect. The shadows in the rays merge nicely with the tree trunks on the right.

Very unusual photo where the animal is looking back directly at you with an intelligent stare.

Nice play of sunlight on the wall

For some reason, this strikes me as funny--perhaps the reflections antimate the "eyes" somehow.

Nice colors, composition.

Pinhole camera image, or am I missing the flying saucer or Loch Ness Monster?

Good near-far composition. Also works as a black and white image.

Hi Tad;

 

I came over from:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2840798

 

I asked about the difficulty framing with a rangefinder. I see that you might have difficulty with this one in parallax in the near field and in determining the near-far focus. It looks like you were able to frame the composition so that the repeating vertical elements came out great, and the position of the sun just kisses the far branch.

 

Great near-far focus and composition, particularly using a rangefinder!

 

-Dave Anderson

Some of my early work from 30 years ago. Just now getting around to

scanning and posting.

A very nice composition. A challange using a rangefinder. Do you find it difficult to compose for the final composition using the rangefinder, and how much cropping do you have to do to get the final print?

I present for your evaluation a photo of my mother's garden sculpture

set free of poles and supports!

Nice grab shot!

Great timing or use of Photoshop-which?

I like the mass of the hill-it sort of anchors the trees. Love the 3 dimensional look of the sky through the trees.

This is the classic near-far sunset dilemma. In this case, I think the near-field flowers sort of get in the way of the composition. I like your Sunset I better. A photo with a successful foreground is located at:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?topic_id=1481&msg_id=009okJ&photo_id=2795582&photo_sel_index=1