james_oneill

There's something about this... the simplicy of it is great - but there is also something about the finger at the top which reminds me of the shapes in a nude.

Good timing in this shot, technically spot on too.

 

The toning is exactly right. I like the light, and the very relaxed natural pose. I also like nudity which is under-stated like this. The only thing I would change is to crop out the black object on the right edge of the frame.

 

I like "morning" in this folder, for the same sorts of reasons.

Nice work. You'd do it more justice if you posted a little larger.

My first reaction was that this is the best picture I've seen from you. I'm not sure why... this is one of your regular models, and although the lighting is good, it often is in your pictures. It's not the photoshop mixing colour and mono (a technique I use too)... so what then ?

I think it is 3 things. I Like the pose, it is a whole body shot - it doesn't emphasise any part of the body (remember the shot OF breasts / shot WITH breasts discussion ?) . The cloth on the thing she is sitting on and the background make good supporting elements. But the main thing about it is she has *space* in the frame.

Also have a look at the sharpness of each of the "TocaTour" plates on each of the cars

It's good. Personally I wouldn't have cropped it so tightly so the heel and toe aren't right against the edge, and there's a bit more of the reflection (maybe put the "horizon" a bit higher up). Not sure if I like the sock length - the contrast between bare and covered leg vs the short length. The things I like: strong colours, and "thing & distorted reflection of thing"...

The whole idea basically.

 

It's a fraction over exposed. OK for sharpness/focus. I used the levels autofix in Microsoft digital image pro (Picture manager in office 2003 will do the same - or use your favorite software) to get this

 

Like Lannie, I got "Turin shroud" from this - reading your explantion I guess what I see as "rib cage" is actually part of a flower ? I did wonder for a moment if this was supposed to be Christ looking up at where your brain should be from where your heart is....

I'm not going to put a score for now because it is in a class of pictures which I can appreciate, even admire, but I don't like it. I could probably justify giving it a 1 or a 7 on aesthetics.... well certainly a 2 or 6.

Very good example of your style.

It's hard NOT to be impressed with a shot like this. If this were my shot I'd be seeing how big I could blow it up from the crop and marking out suitable bits of wall.

 

 

Here's the full frame

Better than most flower pictures on here. Quite a lot better. The lighting gives an effect like those technical watercolours of flowers. The composition works - there's nothing wrong with rule of thirds, but you don't need to be a slave to it.

I don't see anything wrong with the composition, it carries a good feeling of drama. But I would have reduced the saturation to make it a bit less orange and more sepia, as shown

and with sharpening it looks like this

Here is a 100% crop without sharpening

Jim's just said it very well. Cropped square it would be a good album cover, and as it is it could adorn many student walls.

I prefer this crop to the other version I just scored. It's got all the same good things going for it. But sometimes I like the attitude of "You can see she has no clothes, but I not need to put the breasts in the frame". I like it here.

One of your best to date. Jennifer's comment is spot on too. The nakedness is not the main part of the picture, the expression is. Good lighting, nice tonal range, sepia toning is just right.

Possibly the best you've put here so far.

Zoe is getting a fair number of pictures posted.

I've got a folder of pictures from of her and Rho before the main session started on Sunday - looking at your pbase stuff looks like you were there after I left.

Neil white also has some of Zoe in Wales

This is quite nice, though I wouldn't call it soft lighting - it's going bug me for the rest of the afternoon because it reminds me of something and I can't think what. The crop is a bit odd, becuse you're keeping Rhowena's chest out of shot, but it feels like her arms need to be completly in it - which would mean either an odd aspect ratio or some dead space at the top. That arrangment of the arms is worth a bit more experiment on another day.

I think her face is slightly in shade because of the hood (shame the fur covers her face slightly) - and to get the exposure right for her face the hands have ended up over exposed.

There does seem to feeling in that look - which fits your explanation.

 

Care to tell me why you hit mine with a 1+2 and no comment ?

 

So why were all these DS's in one place ? There's something intriguing about this picture.

I think the first one in the folder is the better composition, but it doesn't make me want to know more, this one does. If you imagine this turned to put the cars in two horizontal rows, and without the people it would be a good excercise in composition, but it would lose the "story" feeling.

Superb.

If you look at what I said about the other one, this one is (in my view) exactly right, where that one over-did it.

I'm torn, between saying - "Really clever, just hinting at stuff", and saying "For heavens sake man, a bit more exposure !" I can see a foot and an arm, and was intrigued enough to pull the picture out of my browser and push the gamma through the roof to see what's there. I usually like your lighting/exosure/technique, but I think you might have overdone it. But like I said I'm not sure.

With the rotation it looks like roof tiles.

It would sit very well in a text book to show how repeating patterns can make good pictures.