darby

My favorite subject to shoot at weddings are the kids. They are

dressed up and assume the cutest demeanor as they participate in the

service. This flower girl was staged for a few minutes before her

walk, I knocked off a few shots and she noticed me. I think the fact

that she was being photographed, candidly, made her feel important as

seen in her expression. Just wanted to share this one.

I got a kick out of what I perceived as our gender roles unknowingly

displayed candidly by these two children during a wedding.

Wow, I just think of the movie "The Fly," scary nice.

I had this a while and did not think much of it until I recently

went B&W with the image.

 

After the distraction of color was gone, leaving space for

interpretation, each person in the image seemed to typify an example

of the American opinion and relevance to the casualties and

sacrifices made by Americans for S Vietnam and the proliferation of

Communism. The body language of each subject, especially in

relation to their age, says something to me.

 

This may be a good example of the poetic capabilities and potential

of B&W images vs. color.

I'd liks to see both rings in sharp focus, right one seems soft

I'd like for the eye to be the sharpest point of the shot

Comments Appreciated

Nice to see some new stuff and exploration. Your original model/spouse or what ever she is, was becoming your trademark, opposed to your creative use of light that is usually the major highpoint of your work. There is only so much you can do with that window...

Like a wild cat full of arrogance and confidence which in irony holds the pillow made of the hide of such a cat. Bet she scratches too, nice.

All comments welcome. THis shot is part of the "People, Places and

Things of West Texas" presentation.

Nice composition but with a DOF that's to shallow, losing sharpness

Nice! I assume the noise in the sky is from the jpg compression. Only thing I'd change is cropping some of the blue sky.

Might try cropping shot so the center rail is in the bottom left third of the frame instead of almost center. A lower vantage point with a lot of DOF (cross in tracks, upperthird/center frame) might really make this nice. My2 cents worth.

Too bad there is not more contrast between the insect and the tree

Looks a tad underexposed to me

The point could be clairified with a better title. Child is holding parents wedding rings. Both the rings and the child are "the product of love"

Yes this is an indoor rodeo arena and the opening ceremony. The extra flag is a sony jumbotron. I could clone the screen out but as the title of the shot says, "glory old and new" Showing the traditional display of the flag with the horse and the 21st century production of video screen flag with fireworks. It does look somewhat fake but the is what I saw through the viewfinder that day.

I can smell the mountain air!

If you have this in PS might think about boosting saturation and backing off the yellow and bumping up the the red channel a tad...my2cents that's worth 1

The texture and contrast might make a good B&W conversion?

Could you clone out the leaf in the bottom right?

Does this do anything for anybody? Spouse says clutter to the left

of frame kills it for her. Colors somewhat muted in the web color

space as seen here but image does print very vivid in adobe1998RGB

profile.

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Enough of the Gym!

Sorry, just dont get it