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This is really fantastic. It's technically perfect, and it's a great documentary piece. Somehow the fluorescent light bulb overhead really completes this photo for me.

Well done. Hard to find fresh views of kids and pets, and this is a nice one.

Overall, I love what you did with this - it's not often I see a photo of a pet that really floors me, and this one did. My only criticism is that the focus seems to be just in front of the eye with a very shallow DOF, so the fur above the eye is in focus while the eye is not quite. I don't know if your cat will give you the chance to try again (he/she looks somewhat murderous in this shot :) but I'd encourage you to try again. Nailing the focus could turn this from a really nice photo to a "holy crap, what an amazing picture - why didn't I think of that?" photo.

I thought I'd like the b&w version better, but I prefer this one. It adds an interesting shift of colors from green in front to more blue further back. The highlight in the top right may be considered a bit too much in this one (seems less prominent in the b&w version) but I think it adds a certain atmosphere to the photo.

c/c much appreciated

Ditto to what Deb said. The more I look at the this the more profound it becomes. You've taken a sports photo and turned into a statement on an animal's life in the rodeo, trying to get strange men off his back. Really quite marvelous - I love it.

That's really interesting and original. It suggests a wildfire outside, until you look closely and see the neon lines of the sign. Pretty cool.

I don't like this. It's obviously just a vertical shot rotated, as evidenced by the way her belly button jewelry and breasts hang (or don't, I suppose), and that just makes it seem kind of silly - a trick not worthy of the overall quality of your work. Also, the texture of the background is distracting - it either needs to be blurred out more, or you need a different background material. The overall effect of the poor background and the rotated orientation seems amateurish.

 

You're clearly a far better photographer than I am, so please don't take my criticism as an insult - I can only hope that one day my skills are on your level. But your nudes, to me, are boring, safe and utterly conventional. They seem pointless, maybe even a little crass. The world is overflowing with dull nude photos of perfect models. Why not try shooting less perfect women, or (gasp) men?

I like this and the other shots you've made of the mill. Nice job of really exploring a subject. It helps that it's rather photogenic. :)

That's a great photo, and I'm not a huge landscape lover - kudos.

Fantastic. Well timed, well composed, perfectly exposed, perfectly focused... just look at the detail in those eyes! Excellent shot.

That's a really nice landscape. The composition is wonderful and the exposure is just perfect.

 

I read in your bio that you use a point-and-shoot; this and your other landscapes show once again that it's definitely about the photographer, not the gear.

 

Keep 'em coming!

That's a very beautiful shot - nothing I could possibly add to it.

It's not every day you see a wedding photo on a bed, I'll give you that. But it's a nice capture of a genuinely tender moment. I can almost feel the bride's relief to be off her feet. I agree with the prior comment that it could use more exposure.

A nice and unexpected photo. One minor quibble: for my taste I'd like to see more of the spoons in focus (i.e. more depth of field), but of course it may not have been possible in the lighting conditions. But otherwise I really like it and wouldn't change a thing. The composition is really beautiful.

Very nice shot. As already noted, the variety of textures, shapes and colors of the bricks creates a very interesting image out of what might seem at first glance just another old building. Thank you for sharing.

I like this shot a lot... great timing to catch the woman with her shoes off (unless she was sitting like that all day :). Exposure is great, composition is interesting and balanced. And I agree, it looks better at the larger size.

Nothing sets the holiday spirit like a dirty, wet scarf and Santa

hat on the sidewalk...

Love it - very cute shot. Nice to see a little humor in here.

For what it's worth, this is my favorite photo in your portfolio. So simple, and so beautiful. A wonderful example of how truly great portraits are not about focal length and aperture, but about people. Everything about this shot is just perfect. Bravo.

Susan, I just looked through your portfolio for the first time, and you don't need any criticism from me - I love your work. I especially love your shots of Chinese minorities. They are wonderfully humanizing, with no trace of the exoticism so common in such photos. The time you must have spent actually communicating with - rather than simply photographing - real people going about their real lives is inspiring to me, and a striking example of how this work should be done.

 

Thank you for sharing your photos. You have made my day.

This was shot somewhere in New Mexico in 2004. It's pretty clear

what I was going for, and it's also pretty clear it didn't work. Do

you think this might have been salvaged with slightly less blur on

the windmill? Should the flower and the windmill both be in sharp

focus? Should I have gone for a different composition altogether (I

could have moved around and "placed" the sunflower anywhere I wanted

in the frame, but chose to put it as far from the windmill as

possible)? Is it just a silly shot to take in the first place?

 

Thanks, and please don't hold back!

IMHO, it's hard to make a piece of art by photographing a piece of art. But you've managed to do it -- nice shot. Would be better if the figure in the lower right was out of frame, but it probably wasn't possible without sacrificing the great lines and separations of space you've achieved.

I don't think the camera takes anything away. The lighting, the grain and your hair/makeup make the photo look 'old', but the camera is an interesting anachronism. I don't think I'd like the shot as much without it.

I like the composition and the light. The desaturation feels a little forced -- I'd love to see the original...