jluebke

Vasilis -- I think this is a good picture in the right context, and I like your selective desaturation to draw attention to the cars. However, I think you've gone a bit overboard on the sharpening and saturation adjustments. Perhaps a more subtle approach would yield the effect you're looking for without being so obviously "manipulated."

 

I have enjoyed browsing your portfolio very much!

This is a shot of an Emcee at the 2004 Detroit Electronic Music

festival. I was shooting from an elevated location behind the stage -

- the best vantage point I could manage without press credentials.

Do you think the rear sync/dragged shutter works to convey the action

here, or is it just a gimmicky look? Thanks in advance!

I disagree with those that have suggested cropping from the left edge. Personally, I immediately connected to this as a kind of furtive "glance in the mirror" caught on film. The subject's look of surprise and some measure of hostility reinforce that enough for me. As it is, this frame is so high key, the subject's look so intense, and her beauty so striking that as a viewer I just need a bit of detachment. The defocused frame provides that nicely, without the cliched "picture-within-picture" composition. Beautiful capture!

Thanks for your thoughts Jeremy -- for what it's worth, I like this version better too. Unfortunately, I didn't have the option of waiting for the guy on the right to move. He's a photographer, so he just walked out onto stage and stood wherever he damn well pleased... kind of annoying to us musicians. ;-)

I'd love to see a print of this in person -- looks like there is an incredible amount of detail in the stone pillars and distant walls. I really love the range of tones that have been reproduced, and the lightness of the central area really draws you in. I do think that the stone slab in the immediate foreground is distracting and unneccesary, however. Sure, it adds weight to the bottom of the frame, but to my eye, it's too out of focus to really add any visual interest.

I would suggest cropping the partial people from both the left and right sides -- they are distracting from the central subject. Very nice capture, otherwise.

I think this is a really nice shot, but could benefit from a perspective correction in Photoshop. The fairly drastic convergence of the vertical lines gives this an unsettling feel to me, but could easily be corrected without losing any of the essential elements of the image.

Wonderful! Love how you used the wide angle to exaggerate the distance between boat and dock. Gives a great sense of detachment to an already aesthetically beautiful shot.

The sofa at the end of the world -- amazing. Great control over the shadow detail in the rocks, very subtle tones in the sky and a nice creamy look to the highlights on the sofa. Great portfolio -- I'm in awe.

This scene tickled me like no other -- a group of Mennonites at Henry

Ford Museum.

I need some opinions on this, and on the other shots in this folder. I am pleased with the group to varying degrees, but I have a personal connection with these musicians and need some honesty.

I shot the entire roll at 1600 to get some manageable shutter speeds with my slow f3.5-4.5 lens. I seem to have lost a ton of highlight detail, but like the way the mid to dark ranges came out. Could I have rated the film differently and still had any shadow detail? Are there compositional issues? Have at it, and thanks in advance.

P.S. Sorry about the quality of the scans -- I have no negative scanner yet and these were scanned from a contact sheet.

Well, anybody care to comment?

I thought this was an extremely interesting find. I'm looking for

your thoughts on the subject matter and execution. Thanks.

Just looking for some thoughts on this. Thanks!