james_oneill

Should be popular with any Freemasons here.... :-)

A picture with such good detail in the spine and shoulder blades is always worth a 7 for Aesthetics from me.

Like the tones. Also like the way the windows fit into the composition.

Nicely done... just looking though the folder, and this is one of several with very good lighting. It has a nice balance between what is revealed and what is left to the imagination.

Pose and lighting creates good drama. But Not sure about about cropping through the ankle - might be better with the whole foot or cropped a little tighter.

The darkness is a result of the post processing. (You can see the stages in the attached JPG).

The conversion to mono was done by isolating the red channel, and that tends to make eyes go dark. I've then added "dark glow" to the image (negative, add glow, negative back) and that's emphasised it. I might go back and layer in eyes without the glow...

 

David, thanks for the comment, I'll post another today with the hand less prominent. Some will prefer one way and some will prefer the other.

 

The distortion is probably a lot less than you think - it is shot with a short tele lens from about 5 feet away so the hand is not that much closer than the breast. If you look at some of the other pictures in the folder you'll see Joceline has long slender hands. If this were a perspective effect the hand would be wider across the knuckles.

 

 

Go on then ...

This modelled on another of mine Somehow I think that one will

be liked better by most of the audience. Comments ?

Go on, say something...

It's a nice picture, well executed.

But... Why do 19 out of 42 people who have rated this so far give it a 7 for originality. I'm curious: do people go "Great picture 7+7" or can someone say why they think it is original.

Certainly worth 6 or 7 for Aesthetics though.

Go on then...

Joceline. The "leg" she is holding onto is Adrian's arm. Thoughts,

anyone ?

Comment... or just leave a number if you fancy.

From the same shoot as

photo_id=2912438>this one. I'm more interested in your comments

than scores. I'll make my own allowances for the difference in scores

for male and female models.

From my first shoot with a male model. Comments very welcome.

Thoughts, anyone ?

I'm not sure many models could get to this shape. Thoughts ?

These are from my first session with a male model - I did a session

with Joceline on her own, then with her partner, Adrain and then

Adrian on his own.

 

Any thoughts on this one.

All three of these Yvonne are very good. I like this one best. It's keeping company with quite a few good shots in this folder.

Got to agree with the other comments. Fanstastic shapes both the spikey bits and the sensuous bulbs. Great use of perspective and light. Having a bit of trouble working out how this was done, but a very good pic indeed. And desrves a 7 for originality, because Kelp is supposed to boring and not worth a look. As for Aesthetics, I'd have it on my wall so it gets another 7.

Agree with David. Subtle, nicely done. Personally I would have toned it more of orange-yellow and less green-yellow but that's just taste, and not enough to spoil it.

I don't like the text in the border, it's a distracts from the picture. The simplicity of this works well. You've found a good arrangement of the twigs and the simple blue backdrop (doesn't look like a natural sky, but it could be) is what's needed.

This is a follow-on from this one. We didn't arrange things on purpose

to get her hair to cover her breasts but I like it that way.

This started from an idea Red Lilly had using a "can can" skirt - lifting it up to show that she was wearing only stockings beneath. It didn't work too well so we tried another skirt. This let us get a mixture of hidden and visible - except for the diamond shaped area of chest in the centre of the frame, everything we see is through one or more layers of the net matterial which makes up the skirt.

This is not a kind of picture I would normally do, and I'd really like to have some views on it. Please.