stephen hazelton

Obviously not a very good shot as it has no lightning or homeless people in it!

 

Equipment is important, too. It needs to be taken on a Large Format Digital Leica to be really really good.

Found this print while looking for a different one.

The fence and backstop are a neat picture- but I think the rose would work better as a generic photography ad.

It's really not risque, but it is a pose that would normally be used for a more mature subject.

 

Be careful using moms and daughters for acceptability- people have ideas all over the spectrum about what's okay and what isn't.

I like the contrast and composition. The white seems somewhat overexposed on my monitor, though the shot still works.

I like it- the mood and motion. It could be cropped (or composed) a bit tighter on the lit portion.

A good shot of this bird- the few times I've tried to shoot woodpeckers, I've found them uncooperative.

A neat view, though a bit hazy. If the 4-wheeler were offset from the cairn, it would help the image, I think. The flowers at the base of the cairn suggest some other possibilities as well.

A cool composition, neat scene- I like the light airy feel to it as well.

A neat abstract- I like the symmetry.

Often discussed, seldom seen, here is the elusive Unsharp Mask. I

don't see the attraction myself, though.

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Neat shot- for some reason, reminds me of Monty Python's animation work- I expect someone to reach down and open his head.

I have no clue what category this shot should be in. From the

latest outing with one of the Dollar Cameras.

I usually post my shots at about 480 pixels wide, and that seems to be about the minimum.

 

I think it would help the shot above to catch the train a little closer in to the camera- step up closer where those posts are not so prominent in the picture as well.

I've seen horses, maybe the same horse, pulling carriages around West End. While they look neat, I hadn't thought to try to isolate one from his surroundings like this- works very well; good pose (ie, good timing) and lighting as well.

I agree that the shadow's not a big deal. It looks pretty cloudy, and you probably could have waited for a cloud over the sun and lost the shadow, but then you'd lose some of the lighting appeal as well.

 

I'm not sure about the composition- the rocks form a sort of frame, which is then empty- so I'd be tempted to try to shift the rocks on right or left more into the frame.

Playing around with the little anvils some more...

Buses at the bus lot

I've thought of that, but haven't really gotten any feedback one way or the other.

 

It seems to me that our view of some of these guys is warped by time. Any WWII veteran still alive is 80 or so and it's easy to get in the trap of thinking of them as old grouches. But they weren't always old, and there was a point in their lives where they were young, they laughed, they played, they rejoiced.

 

I assume the guys raising the flag there at Iwo Jima were not much older than my son in the picture. I suspect they had a lot more in common with him than they did with the elderly. They probably would have enjoyed playing the guitar with him and meeting his sister. I see modern-day footage and photos out of Iraq and find that the soldiers over there are still very much like you and me, complete with sense of humor.

 

Some time back, I went down to DFW National Cemetery to take some pictures. They had a long list of activities that aren't allowed at the cemetery- basically anything remotely recreational, and I was even informed that photography was not allowed there. It seems to me that the attitude is shaped by this same way of thinking, of assuming the elderly were always elderly. I can't imagine that any kid/grandkid/great grandkid would ever want to set foot in that place, and I think that's unfortunate.

I assume that's what it says on the little sign at middle left? Can't quite make it out there. Or maybe just a personal sentiment unrelated to the picture?

 

For the sign to show, I'd consider cropping in more on the left end of the building. For the building as a whole, it would help to have more context to put it into- either back off a ways, or maybe use it as part of series on the town.

 

 

I think it's a neat idea that I haven't seen before. I would suggest trying to get a darker background.

I'd probably remove them here. The movies have gotten us used to seeing that flare on a sunny desert, but here it doesn't really look that glaringly sunny- more of a moonscape-look- and I don't know that the flare adds anything.

On my monitor, this looks pretty pale- likely not the way it was intended. Good colors in the background, though.

The shot right above this on the Critique Forum was Senior Pic #2- I saw this and thought "Is this Senior Pic #3?" That would be a yearbook to remember!