nick_doan

Thanks!

Thanks, Mike! I took a look at your portraits folder. I love your b&w work.

A lot of people I have shown this image to, prefer it to the "Vying

for Second" image in my Sports Folder. If you would be so kind,

please take a look and let me know which you prefer. Thanks.

 

Nick.

Taken at 1/2000 at F8, I believe. If you compare this picture to

the othersin my Sports folder, which type of racing pictures do you

prefer? Frozen or with Motion blur and panning?

 

I should have take this at F$ and tried to blur out more of the

background. Again, this was a print that I then shot with a digital

camera to get online. So, some of the shadow detail is missing.

 

Thanks for your comments, Nick.

Shot at 1/100, F22 on a very bright Spring Day. Race time is

between 1pm and 6pm, so makes the lighting difficult. -Nick.

Outrider, Vincent Barrett, awaits the start of the next race in the

Paddock. I love this image as a B&W print, wish I could have

captured it with a better tonal quality. Any comments would be

appreciated.

Thanks, Peter. The mouth is pretty distracting, and I couldn't see a good way of cropping it out. I'll try to look for the original somewhere on my harddrive and see if I don't have some room to crop it better.

 

Thanks for the suggestion.

Another one of those images that couldn't have been painted better!

One of my favorites...

This is one of my favorite photos here on Photo.net. It's so crisp, you couldn't have painted a better picture.

I saw this photo for the first time. I still love it! This one image is the one that drew me to Photo.net. I've learned a lot here, and hope i've added a little to the community. Thanks, Jaap. This image did a lot for me.

Interesting composition, but I think it would have been more effective to zoom more in on the players, and cut out about 40-50% of each ball. It would still give the framing, and people would know that they were still basketballs, but sitll bring the focus back onto the players. As it is, the players are less than 1/3 of the frame.

I think that cropping it the other way might be interesting. If you have her push the left edge of the frame, and left a little more of the tree in so we followed her gaze off the frame into the unknown... As it is, I keep looking at the background behind her right shoulder wondering what's over there.

If you can take a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of a man drowning, or attempt to save him...what speed film do you use? (you guys will argue over anything, won't you? :P )

 

When I looked at this picture, I was amazed by the tonal quality of the image. Definitely a PJ image to be proud of...whether or not I got the whole story from it is beside the point. I've looked at lots of images I haven't gotten the full story from, but have been amazed by them all the same.

 

Congratulations on getting a PoW.

 

Nick.

This has got to bring a great feeling. Your parents really loved you. :)

 

I would suggest adjusting the levels, and bringing in the blacks a bit. And, maybe burn in the bright gray spot above the leftmost duck's head.

gareth,

 

The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French Government. This person dressed as the Statue of Liberty (the French gift) was reminding America (the Republic) of Washington's (first president of the United States) farewell speech; where he admonished America not to meddle in Foreign entanglements.

 

I guess you have to know american history to catch all the nuances. The title was difficult to translate; I had to read it two or three times to get it all.

 

I lievd in DC for a few years, so I recognized it right off the bat, but I don't know that a lot of people would. That, and I think you could have better exposed the woman playing the statue.

 

Good photo for a story!

I'm not sure the yellow petals in the foeground are necessary...they're kindof distracting

It's is a lot moer appealing without the stick. (You can barely tell that you altered it all.) I did like the color version of this alot though. Did you try to clone out the stick in the color version?

I think this is the best photo in your folder! Subtle expression, nice stance, good tone, very appealing.

 

 

I like the colors, and the composition is fairly good, but you have a serious vingnette problem going on here.

Great Timing. This image could have worked really well. If you could have just gotten closer and rotated slightly more to the right, and closer to the same plane that the girls were on.

 

A little sharper would have been nice to, but your 90mm lens was probably a limiting factor.

I would love to see this image without the blue cast to it. In and of itself, it's a striking image. But, I think that in regular black and white, it could be easily as strong.

I like this framing better than this one, http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1316545

 

The colors look a little dull to me here though.

Of the two, I like this version better. But, to me it's a photo of a silhouette of a statue. If I wanted a picture of a silhouette of a statue pointing to the sea, I would crop the statue closer to the left edge of your landscape version, and cut away some of the bottom. This would give a longer view of him poinint to somewher way over there. (I haven't tried it, so i don't know for sure that it would work with this particualr angle...)

 

 

Yes.