jimknowles

... you make me HOT - but in a good way!

 

ps... love your kitty pictures!

Let's see you do it.

 

.....or are you too busy with your Cliche Police duties?

 

My cliche is better than your cliche. Nee-ner, nee-ner, nee-ner!

 

 

I give up - you're both right! That's EXACTLY what I was thinking when I met this woman it was just that same old tired cliche all real men throughout the eons have dreamt about over and over! "Me man - want pretty woman ... and cigar after!"

 

Sheeesh! What WAS I thinkin'!!!!!!!! SO SORRY to have offended those of you who don't create pictures or just want to see nice pictures of kitties and flowers and little children playing! Truly - I mean that with all my heart!

 

And the next time any woman wants to pose for a picture so I can experiment with some interesting photographic techniques I'll make sure she keeps all her clothes on so that the right wing fundamentalists amongst us won't be offended.

They certainly look comfortable with you Frank. As you seem to know - getting your subject to be comfortable seems to almost always make the picture work well, as this one does. You must have some jealous girlfriends, eh what? How are they holding up under all the compliments?

This picture works. The series works. The concept works. Don't light it. It's lit perfectly now. If you're going to shoot with same model in same space with same / similar outfit - just do it. Don't overdo it. Groovin' on this angle from floor level. Maybe you could add a Dr. in all white sort of ghosting through, but not still, with a big flapping open white coat and stethescope? Put the model (or models) through their paces - lots of stuff you can work with here. go nuts and maybe different outfits? unless you're doing tighter shots, make-up won't help a shot like this (though sometimes it makes the models feel better ; )... like this shot very much. Rene's endorsement should be good enough to tell you that you're in the big leagues.

Doug - this is the best photo I've seen of yours. I've noticed you've begun placing a tone scale on your images info box (see above). Very good idea.

 

To my eye, the increased contrast and bit darker imaging / printing of this image compared to many of your other less contrasty / lighter images is much more in keeping with what a well exposed & properly developed b&w neg will give you in the final print without a lot of dodging and burning.

 

The black smoke from the train contrasted with the grey in the sky and clouds adds a sort of 3D effect. The clouds themselves look just as clouds might during this time of day. Very well done, sir. An excellent composition as well.

Every parent's wish - to have an assortment of photos of their children. They grow up so quickly! This is a treasure - it doesn't have to comply to a bunch of rules. and it doesn't matter WHY the girl is mimicking the doll's expression - it's fun and will be a family jewel forever.

But not down ... yet! Good job nailing the action at the decisive moment, Wayne! Yup - he's going to hit the ground - and maybe even get tromped on - but in this picture, he's frozen in mid air forever. And don't kid yourself, this is an image every cowboy artist / painter has tried to capture. Cowboy limbo. Horse ballet. Whatever you want to call it, beautiful image, Wayne.

busy but beautiful. certainly the epitomy of what friendship is all about - the words that come to mind are those which define friendship for me: "A willingness to extend oneself for another's spiritual growth..." Sure looks like someone in pain is being comforted by a friend here - and what can be more spiritual than comforting someone in pain?

 

re: technical stuff - decent lighting, okay depth of field (though it might work better were the gentleman's hand and hair in focus - the hand on his shoulder doesn't necessarily need to be) - and good framing / composition. The darkness from wherever the hand is reaching adds mystery, though it probably would have also worked were that upper left area not as dark.

Lovely image - congrats on taking the time and effort to try this! Moonrise, indeed. What an awesome scene - especially for anyone who's every been there and seen it ... i can almost smell the flowers and ocean.

 

ps.... thanks for rating my Reagan photos.

...over NYC. Groovin' on the tones of this b&w, not to mention the detail. New York is certainly a mass of unique buildings, isn't it? This reminds of images from another era - only the modernity give it away as being from present time.

 

ps... thanks for rating my Reagan / Thatcher photo.

Geez-0h, talk about sharp! And what a nice pose and perfect light. Very well done.

 

ps.... thank you for rating my photo of Reagan and Thatcher.

Wonderful use of color and digital effects! Great composition as well. And you happened to nail the happy horse on top of it all! Fun picture!

 

ps... thanks for rating my picture of Reagan w/ Thatcher.

Muy Bueno. Very good. Looks very much as if it could have been shot in CUBA in another time. I'm not a big fan of digital alterations, but here you have created a winner out of what would otherwise been a less than exraordinary image. Well done.

 

post script.... thank you for taking time to rate my photo of Reagan w/ Thatcher.

Lovely serene tranquil. This is a gorgeous image. Cannot verify here on "critque request" but hope you shot this on film and not digital. Would be a shame if you were unable to make a silver print from a neg! Very well done!

I can see you now, out picking fluff sticks in your golf knickers - coming home and mixing up a batch of warm water. You are a trip, man.

 

This gorgeous image reminds of a forest - and it's lovely how the light gives us little clue as to where it's coming from, yet allows a dark forest floor and shaded but lighter sky background.

 

Still wondering if you'd ever consider doing something like this with some backlighting? Might be cool...

 

Keep up the good work. (Now you've got a collection of ticklers for the next time things get boring in the garden... eh? he, he, he... ; )

Bridget! THIS image is THE PICTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

OF your two images of this man with the violin, this one is so amazing, it needs to be seen by everyone. The B&W version is so much more powerful than the color. I urge you to have a proper 4x5 size quality interneg made and get some museum grade archival prints done. THEN - find someone to help you have this image made into a poster and market it worldwide.

 

One of the reasons this image works even better than the other is because you've got his bow perfectly angled from the lower left corner of the frame to the upper right corner. His downward gaze make him look as though he were the world's greatest concert vilionist, yet his Roman nose and 16th century beard and hair suggest he's been transported from the time of Leonardo da Vinci - in fact, he looks very much like what many art experts and historians believe da Vinci might have looked like. The lighting is absolutely brilliant and finally, his hands (one up, one down) balance the frame, which has been set off beautifully by the gorgeously out of focus and intelligently framed background shadows! WONDERFUL WONDERFUL IMAGE!

Mr. da Vinci, Mr. Rembrandt - meet Miss Hunt. BRAVO!

 

Me thinks you must be quite a lovely woman close to the heavens Bridget. Takes a gentle loving soul to see like this. So glad you didn't hesitate to push the shutter! Thank you for sharing. I do believe you've got a beautiful poster here. Thousands of people would love to have a copy, no doubt!

 

Thank the Lord you made this on real film! Make some real silver gelatin prints and show them to your friends and strangers - I'll bet you encounter some real emotions that day.

Superb details, excellent colors, wonderfully serendipitous bubbles and the lighting is magical. This photograph is world class and deserves to get a lot of attention.

 

DUDE! - this lighting is truly remarkable - very very well done. Right down to the shadows of the stem leaves and bubble reflections!

Probably one of the most amazing dune & cloud images I've ever seen in 35 years of being a photog. It's really quite extraordinary, Nana. That it's on a med. format neg makes this image very special - what a shame if you were unable to make silver prints!

 

Having seen the other images in your portfolio, I must say it's wonderful that you are able to photograph such wonderful skies and clouds near the sea! I do hope you have a gallery showing your work or a book on the way? This is the sort of print I love to look at every day, especially if it's hanging in my library.

A powerful image indeed. Extremely powerful. And were you to photograph him 15 years from now (if he lives that long) he'd probably look exactly the same, REGAL!

Nonsense, all that rot about the other versions. THIS SIMPLY ROCKS! One of the finest examples of portraiture on p.net! Gorgeous just the way it is!

Like I said - didn't mean to offend. I see the overwhelming majority of people here would disagree with me, and as i said might happen, it seems my earlier comments angered some of the other admirers of this picture.

 

As long as we're all being "real" here, let me just add this one simple suggestion: Would you consider cropping this image much tighter - perhaps from below the bust of the woman in front? I think if you do this, the subject's expressions will become much more impactful. Then the elbow thing will simply remain what it is.

 

May as well tell you what I think of the lighting while i'm at it - this is a very simple lighting set up. No modeling, no shadow, no backlight, no hairlight. Perfect light for headshots. And yet, this image has garnered more ratings than almost all other pictures in the time it's been up?

 

SOoooo, I surmise from this fact that the expression of a subject is VASTLY more important here?

 

BTW - you are the author of , what I believe imho to be, one of the finest examples of portraiture here on p.net - the photo of the asian woman? Now THAT image has truly gorgeous lighting! It's the shot, if I recall correctly, where she's looking down slightly, and her neck and shoulder are exposed? Great picture, that!

Sweet, tender, soft - and very tasteful. Where DO you get all these models?

To me, this photo could have been much more impactful had you gotten a different angle so as to eliminate all the junk scattered about the background. Or perhaps used a longer lens to throw that stuff out of focus? Also, the harsh sunlight seems to have wahsed out a portion of his face, while the rest of the image is a bit "muddy" and lacking in tonality (all on shade of grey).