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Oops..... I meant show your crop to the wife.

Andrey,

 

Thanks for the kind words, and the new perspective, vis-a-vis the tighter crop. I framed the shot to show off the flow and style of her hair, but I also like the tight square composition.

 

Unfortunately, I don't have a long enough lens on my Bronica to pull off framing that tight in camera. Maybe if I show your crop to the wide she'll be more open to that 150mm portrait lens.

My first session with studio stobes. A pair of 300ws monolights. Key

is through a medium softbox, fill from a white bounce umbrella. I

also used a small (100ws) hair light through a grid spot.

My first color night shot, also my first time using Konica 1600.

Taken from New Haven's Freedom Pier, against the backdrop of New

Haven Harbor

I've had my second installment of my grand night photography project

that I like to call New Haven By Night. This was taken under the dock

lights on the Freedom Pier in New Haven, CT. The Freedom Pier is the

home of the schooner's Quinnipiack and Amistad, with the latter being

a reproduction of the famous slave ship.

 

The young lady goes by Jynx and was nice enough to pose for this

installment of the experiment.

 

This is Delta 3200, exposed at EI 1600, to tame some of the contrast

of the dock lights. f5.6 or so at 1/30s

Part of an ongoing fascination with available light photography at

night. Taken on the Yale University campus after midnight, in the wee

hours of the morning, June 14th 2004. More at

http://www.newhavenbynight.com

Part of an ongoing fascination with available light photography at

night. Taken on the Yale University campus after midnight, in the wee

hours of the morning, June 14th 2004.

 

 

More at http://www.newhavenbynight.com

How about a comment with no rating? (don't much like ratings myself)

 

You've got a good concept here, and if this is a self portrait, you are more than forgiven for a less than perfect crop. What I would suggest, is either crop the breast out, leaving an implied nude, or next time, shoot a little wider, so that you can include the entire breast. This will also allow you to include more of your face.

 

Speaking of the face, the portrait modeling on the face is well done. The brightest part of a photograph always draws the eyes first, and this seems to be where you want the attention focused.

 

The only other comment I would make would be that your mouth seems a little stern for this shot. I think this shot might work better with a softer overall expression, and I'm not sure why, but I don't think that the expression on your mouth matches the expression in your eyes.

 

Overall, a good start.

 

This looks like it needs to be the cover of a brochure for the hotel. Escpecially with the frame, and the way the building is framed to pop out of the top of the frame, makes it seem larger than life.

 

The perspective is imposing, daunting even, although I don't know if this was the desired effect.

 

A very 'factual' image. That is, it seems (can't tell for sure, never seem the building in question) to be an accurate representation of the subject, but it's to static, not 'interesting' enough. Perhaps a nice cloudscape in the sky would have given the photo more artistic merit, but again, the intent of the image has to be consider. Perhaps the photographer could chime in on what he was trying to accomplish.

I'm not sure exactly why, but I really like this photograph. They say that when you find a photo you like you should analyse it and determine what 'elements' make it pleasing to you.

 

The angles are all jumbled up, shadows are everywhere they're not supposed to be, your subject (the caterpiller) blends right into the curve of the leaf edge, the rules of composition that state that your lines should lead to your subject are just totally thrown out the window, but I still love it.

 

Totally off the wall, spontaneous, real life opportunity shot. Just goes to show you that some rules are meant to be broken.

 

Thanks for sharing this image. Keep getting distracted, and show us the results.

This was taken at my daughter's 1st birthday. This scene records the moment when she first met Cow. Cow has been her best friend and constant companion for half of her life.

I like the concept, but perhaps another perspective. Don't change anything else, exposure, surface, weapon, just a view that perhaps brings more of the grip into view, i.e. rotate clockwise, and slightly higher angle, although this will in effect reduce the amount of the reflection that is showing, which may have been what you had in mind.

 

The photo is excellent however.

 

BTW, looks like a Sig. 226?

Great composition, the heavy cloud mass to camera left is nicely balanced out by the off center sun. Good shadow detail in the water, did you bracket exposure? I'd be interested in seeing another 1/2 stop of exposure, but if you only took the one shot, great job

I'll agree. A trifle underexpose, but a difficult call. Another 1/2 stop would have brightened up the foreground/subject, but would it have overexposed the sun streak on the water. I hope you bracketed, if so can we have another look + 1/2 stop?

 

That streak is my favorite element of the photo. It give the picture a sense of motion, at the same time, lending to the finality of the scene. You can, without any efort at all, imagine this once great vessel following the path of the sun until it ran aground never to move again.

 

Great composition.

 

 

I think the polarizer would have cut down on the relfections, which are a teeny bit distracting. (just my opinion) The water it a bit too rippled for a true water reflection shot, with the various angles from the ripples putting a little glare into the photo.

 

On another note, how does the media (chrome or print) affect the operation of the polarizer? I thoguht the polarizer affects the orientation of the light reaching the film, how does the media affect this?