larry w

Shame on the 3/3 rater ...

Shouldn't this be blue?

;-)

Nice catch (heh) ... My only comment is about your title, in that there's no indication from the photo that this was a pass or run, or kick or punt return for that matter, heck ... It could have been anything leading to a tackle.

So for it to be named "Completion" doesn't really correspond with the image. At least in my mind.

I mean since this is post catch, I can't even picture in my mind if the catch was good or not ...

Considering Stanford won ... I might have chosen something like ... "Stopped" or "Smothered" or "Upset".

Just an opinion.

The image itself is very good.

I stopped down to f22 and shot it at about 1/5 of a second with the polarizer on. It was very late afternoon (near sunset) and I exposed for the face shadows. Being West Texas ... The wind was, as usual, blowing pretty hard, so the blades were indeed moving at a decent clip.

The only PS work on this picture was to crop it to a print size and to do a minor amount of color balancing (I shot it RAW) upon initially opening in PS.

I shot it several times at several different apertures and shutter speeds and this one just seemed to provide the best movement blur, while keeping fairly sharp focus on the bushes, which were also getting blown around a bit by the wind. Being below the cliff helped with that as well as the tripod's stability.

I have one from on top that I kinda like and will probably post later this evening ... It's of a line of them.

Not really a landscape per se, but these days more and more west

Texas landscapes have these in them or on the horizon. No big

manipulations here, just a little balancing and a bit of a crop.

I like it ... But I might have chosen "Bird Poop" as the title ;-)

Really ... Your first studio protrait?

I hope my first (my wife and I are going to put together a studio next year some time) studio protrait is as good as yours is.

Well in that case ... Good job :-)

The more I look at it, the more I like the flare ... Did you help it a bit in PS? Or was it caught that way.

You are right.

And I think I finally know why my images are losing something in translation from CS2 to here now ... I found a thread in the digital darkroom about converting an image's workspace from Adobe RGB (1998) to sRGB before uploading ... Evidently browsers like sRGB better. I hadn't ever tried that, but will be sure to do so this evening.

Not to mention ... It was taken mid-day (big sin) and this is an older scan of a negative (scanned as a jpg by a photo lab before I got my scanner), among other faults ;-)

Early July in the mountains.

Thanks for your time.

Kind of a spiffy reflection/flare effect (assuming that was the intent) ... But if this is supposed to be a portrait (like a senior picture or something), she's a bit overwhelmed by the truck ... Which is kinda how I see the picture.

My truck and Brooke ;-)

Nice catch ... I especially like the way the on-deck hitter is trying to time the pitcher.

My only critique is that your focus point seems to be on the stands behind the batter (on the people there) rather than on the batter/catcher/ump, which makes the shot unsharp. I'd have focused on the ump or catcher (I'm assuming you used a tripod and just clicked away pitch after pitch) as they are more static targets.

Thanks Carl ... I'll give it a try.

This was taken from our backyard a couple years ago when a spring

storm rolled into town ... The reddish brown at the bottom of the

tower is blowing dust from the outflow of the strom across miles

upon miles of freshly tilled cotton fields. Just a short time after

this shot was taken, the mud started falling.

Thanks for your time.

This photo is from a cruise a couple years ago. We had been in a

slow moving storm between Grand Cayman and Costa Maya for the better

part of a day, and sailed out of it not long before sunset ... Which

gave the sun an opportunity to play on the waves.

Thanks for your time.

Please view larger.

I had a little Photoshop fun with this photo:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5199862 ... An attempt

at a light table look.

As an 8.5 X 11 (and 13 X 19 for that matter) print from Photoshop

CS2 on a Canon Pixma Pro9000, this is a very sharp, crisp image (in

fact all the images in my portfolio are, I wouldn't have chosen them

for upload if they weren't :-D ), as in the frames and wing tips

are "tack sharp", it's the same on the screen in Photoshop.

However, when I convert them to jpg and upload them here, they lose

a lot (as you can plainly see in the non-straight lines of the

frames), or at least they do on my monitors (certainly enough to get

quite a few 3/3s I'm sure).

I resized the image to 1280 pixels wide, then chose "save as", jpg,

and selected max quality. I tried "save for web", but there was no

difference ... I also tried 1024 pixels wide, but that was worse.

Any Photoshop CS2 tips on converting psd images to jpg for viewing

here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks ...

This means something ;-)

I liked this much better in color ...

Before I looked through your portfolio, I was going to say I generally prefer images like this in color (which I do and would have liked to see this in color), but this certainly does fit right in with your portfolio, which is wonderful I might add.

My mother's maiden name is Millard, do you have any relational ties to Chicago?

Anyway ... Nice image and portfolio. Colorado is one of our (my wife and my) favorite states to drive through, breath in, and photograph ... Simply beautiful.

I agree with Anish ... Just a bit too much shadow.

Otherwise it's a wonderful photograph.

I thought it was a tattoo ;-)

I like it ... Then again I have a Jack Russell/Rat Terrier mix ;-)

If yours is anything linke mine ... You could shoot this shot all day long until you got one where the dog was very crisp (meaning you'll wear out long before your dog will).

Still though ... Nice shot with nice colors ... And a great subject :-)

Uh ... Don't (non-evergreen) leaves only get one year ???

heh

Nice idea ... And if you were after over-exposure (as in an abstract image), then you definitely succeeded.

My suggestion would be to shoot/meter on/for the full moon, then reframe and shoot.

Try F11 and a shutter speed of 1/film speed (info found on this very site under the star streaks guide at http://www.photo.net/learn/astro/star-streak ), which would be like 1/400th with ISO 400 or 1/200 for ISO 200 ... etc.

Next full moon give it a shot ... I think this image could be really great with the proper exposure.

Unfortunate you chose critique only as this is a very nice image.

6/6 in my book.