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I think this attains a very high level of photographic art. The image is not an image of a woman. Rather it is an abstract line drawing made with an image of a woman. It brings to mind something I read about Henri Cartier-Bresson: He would sometimes use a viewfinder which inverts the image to help him see the thing in front of him as an abstract design, rather than as a material object. The only alteration I would be tempted to try would be the removal of the larger, lower window pane and the gray area beneath it. I wonder whether leaving just the top small rectangle/window pane might take it one notch further in its economical simplicity, and possibly benefit the compositional balance as well. Bravo.

When our son, Nathan came for a visit, our beagle-daughter, Marlene sat in his lap, thus

creating a photo opportunity.

 

Rolleiflex TLR Planar 2.8F, Ektachrome 100GX de-saturated, single strobe light.

 

Comments welcome.

Bravo! Marvelous photo. Great composition, and more important, feeling.

Molto espressivo. Bravo!

These three gentlemen are awaiting a 95 mph missile from the Braves

pitcher which is headed directly toward them.

Atlanta Braves vs. Washington Nationals, May 14th 2006. Minolta

SRT-102, 200mm Tele Rokkor X, Fuji Sensia 400. Comments welcome.

It's a fascinating image with an odd kind of drama to it. I like it! Did you use fill flash?

Beagles invite snout kisses. Self portrait with beagle, or beagle

portrait with self. Rolleiflex 2.8F Planar, Ektachrome 100GX, strobe

with umbrella reflector. Comments welcome.

Strong composition. Lovely use of the light's angle and color (late afternoon?)

What is more heart stirring than the head tilting gesture that dogs

make when they show us that they are trying to understand what we are

saying? Beagle-daughter Marlene. Leica M6TTL, 90mm Elmarit-M, strobe

with umbrella, Ektachrome 100G. Comments welcome.

In the manner of politicians who, when interviewed on TV, like to

appear in front of a bookcase filled with impressive volumes, I have

here depicted my lovely beagle-daughter, Marlene as she strikes a

thoughtful pose in her library. Leica M6TTL, 90mm Elmarit-M, Kodak

HD-200, flash bounced off ceiling. Comments welcome.

The subject is my lovely and elegible beagle-daughter, Marlene.

Comments welcome.

Great shot. Brava!

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Untitled. Comments welcome.

Suggestions:

 

1.Lighting: Same idea as in your statue photo, for the same reason. Choose a time of day when there is some variation of lighting across the building. Then choose where to stand while making the photo so as to use the lighting for the best effect.

 

2.Show the bottom of the building.

 

The caption on my Photo is incorrect. It should read: "Light from right of center and slightly above. Reflector card below people, to fill in eye socket shadows."

My main suggestion is to choose a time of day when there is some light coming from a direction which causes part of the statue to have a highlight, or to have some variation of lighting across the statue, so as to give it interest and a more three dimensional feel. As shown it does not allow the viewer to feel the three dimensionality, nor the texture of the stone, due to the flat lighting. Also, allow all of the left foot to be seen.

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The subjects seem underexposed.

Solutions:

1.Face them toward the window, or with window at one side and white reflector card off camera, on shadow side. 2.Given the way they are facing, use manual exposure to open up a stop or two, allowing the window to be a blown highlight, but giving better exposure to the faces. 3.Use fill flash. My preference would be solution #1, as shown here.

Thanks Paul and Shridhar. Some of the apartment complexes here have lovely flower beds at the front gates. These were taken at Post Briar (or Briar Post, I forget which) apartments on La Vista Road near Briarcliff. There were large beds of purple, yellow and red flowers. I shot a good number of frames trying out various angles, to vary the direction of light and the color of flowers in the background.

Placing the background out of focus (by using a relatively large

aperture) causes the in-focus foreground subject to appear sharper and

more three dimensional. This attempt at that effect was done with the

Leica M6TTL, 90mm Elmarit-M, EliteChrome 100, late afternoon light,

handheld.

Comments welcome.

Comments welcome.

Lovely work. At first look, I thought it was a film photograph (I mean that as a compliment!) I like the sharply focused hair against the black background. I would suggest burning in the little upper right corner highlight.

Some digital manipulation of the scanned negative's brightness and

contrast resulted in the Charcoal Drawing effect seen here. The

negative was cropped in close to the subject, Pianist Bonnie Wagner,

to get the composition that seemed to best suit the charcoal drawing

economy of detail. Rolleiflex 2.8F Planar, Kodak Professional Tri-X

320TXP exposed at EI 200 and developed in HC-110B.