nelson cotrim

The leaf alone would be a great shot, but like this... Everything I wanted to say has been said already by other people. Besides, I´m speechless!

I like this new approach to the cliched macro water drop. Your drop has texture and color. I just think the highlight is too strong for this one, and gets in the way of the reflexes inside the drop, which IMO are the main subject.

I like this. Good job on the stitching, it´s very well done.

 

I like the shadowed areas on the sides, they direct the eye to the buildings at the center, and to the people in the sun. The silhoutes on the foreground looks great to.

Good catch here. But I lack a story, some background on him... Is he crying, or is he just washing his face after going in the arena? I can´t find out what it´s about... But it´s a beautifull image, and can only improve if you tell us the story behind it.

Very strong picture, I like the grain and the lack of midtones. I think it works fine here. I´d like to see a bit more of her left cheek though, as well as the hand. I don´t like the tip of the knuckles showing.

Great perspective. Makes me dizzy.

I agree with Marc. But nevertheless, very interesting shot. And a nice effect too.

Just enough DOF. Nice folder.

At first, on the thumbnail, I thought they were candlesticks!!

 

Good composition, but if you could place the second light behind the right pin (as in the left pin) and get rid of the one in the middle - end up with two brilliant pins - it would be great!!

 

Just an idea, as I don´t find anything specially attractive on this shot (as Richard mentioned). Use everyday stuff, but try new approaches to them, make them different. To shoot everyday objects is easy, but to make them interesting, that´s another matter. That´s what I liked about the lighting on the left pin - makes it look different than what I see everyday.

From the thumbnail I thought this was a person... So yes, it looks like a dancing little man. Nice catch!

I like the color... The meerkat isn´t doing anything interesting, and the color is what grabbed my attention.

 

I find the whole picture a little uninteresting, but a little crop might help to improve it, IMO. I don´t like the out of focus animals in the bottom, crop them out, along with some of the right and left sides. It will emphasize the central subject.

It just ocurred to me that you have two completely different pictures here, the right and left halves. The right side, with the streaking clouds, is more dinamic, more intense. The left side is more peacefull. I like the way you were able to capture these two distinct moods. The color adds to it, as well as the shape of the trees.

I agree with Marc, a nobler candle holder would help the mood. I´d also like the candle to be just a stub, with congealed wax dripping on the sides, as if it had burned all night and had extinguished itself. This way, it just appears as to have been blown by someone, and from your title, I don´t think that´s your idea. Nice work on the smoke. How did you do it?

I like the unreal porcelain skin, and the contrast between the "still life portrait" and the flowers. They completely alter the mood. It would be a sad piece with the face alone. I don´t mind about the hair, but the object at the lower right corner is very distracting for me (don´t know if it´s a leave, or just a reflex of the flash on her colth) and keeps atracting my eye. I´d also like to see the complete bouquet.

 

PS: great lighting, the flowers seems to be suspended in the air.

Another common subject that you captured in a very unusual angle. I like this one a lot!

Great timing! And framing, and subject, and compostion... Could have been a little sharper though.

 

I´ve just read your comments on the picture, everything considered, it´s a hell of a good job.

I´d like to see the photo she took :^)

 

She looks so serious about it, maybe you should give her that outfit... I really like the mood on this picture, she is so serious, and yet so natural!!

 

Did you pose her, or did she became interested in the camera and then you prepared the shot?

Putting aside the ethics, it´s a great picture. The stretching model is very funny.

I also would like more hand (including the wrist) and less, darker rock. If you plan to reshoot this, use just a little fill flash to add a catchligt in its eyes.

I have less than 50 ratings, so mine was discarded... Sorry :(

Great idea for a self-portrait!!! I also want a fisheye too so I can join the Fisheye Club!! It must be fun to shoot with one of these babies...

 

A cell phone in the bathroom??? Who were you talking to? :^)

Nice picture!! I also like long exposure on the clouds. Great sky!!

Am I the only one who still believes in technique rather than PS or am I just too naive? I was sure this was a double exposure when I first saw the thumbnail (why use PS when you can do it for real and it´s not that hard?). But what really surprised me was the other two exposures of the city, I am amazed at the result. The buildings have lots of detail, impossible to get in the dark hours.

 

I think some of the lights are a bit overexposed though. I also prefer the crop, there´s nothing in the bottom worth keeping, and you get rid of those distracting dots in the middle. I also think the moon is too big, I´d prefer it a little smaller (maybe 2/3). It´s as big as that clock tower!!!

 

But overall it´s a great shot, and thanks Alberto for sharing this technique (the two city exposures).

I agree with Marc on the contrast issue. About the cropping, I like the mood on this photograph, but if the house was more isolated, I guess it would add more interest to it. Does it have clear sky on the sides, or more trees? If more trees, then leave it as it is.

 

OK, maybe a little more road, I also feel it lacks something to direct my eye to the house.

 

But otherwise, great photo. I really like the haunted look on this one. Sort of nightmarish... I can even see some ghosts on the windows :^)

Ok, now I get it. Knowing it´s a joke and reading it all again it becomes clear. But the idea of the crhysalis attached to soda straws is very interesting.

 

I´m also still waiting for the last piece, the butterfly. Maybe then you´ll know what to do with the whole picture. Good look looking for it.

Great colors!!!!! Looks like and abstract.