mike ellison
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I don't agree with Juha. I think the tone of the car is spot-on for this context.
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All the same complements given above really. I do like the composition. Doesn't follow camera club rules of composition... thank goodness!!!!
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Wear cool, light-coloured clothes and breathe calmly to make yourself less attractive. It does work. Especially if you hang around hot sweaty people wearing dark clothes. However, there's still something about me that they find attractive so I usually avoid places they hang out if I can. I'm itching just looking at this picture.
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I guess you know that Annie West liked this picture so much that she put it up on her pages too.
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I think this shot is great as it is. The droplet is the subject, the detail on the pipe is perfect and the out of focus eye adds tension - is the person in the background looking at me or the droplet? The eye makes it so much more original than all the other droplet shots we see around here. -
I like that crop but I think including the middle chicane shows the esses and gives it a "6" shape so you should try that crop too. It's the fact that the bikes would have made a circle shape if the last rider had kept his speed up a bit that interests me. My suggestion is to lighten up the lower mid-tones a bit. The thumbnail looks underexposed but the enlargement shows that the highlights and upper mid-tones are correctly exposed.
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To answer both comments; I tried to address the lack of a resting point for the eye by emphasizing the reflection off the concrete in front of the entrance to the lift to draw attention to the line of people. Darkening down the concrete didn't work as it lost the effect of it being a hot sunny day (and there's not much detail left in the Kodachrome anyway). -
I like the shallow depth of field but it's a pity the centre of focus is just behind the eye rather than being between the eye and the nose.
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I would adjust the verticals. A small adjustment to make a good picture better.
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The cloud is lovely but I find the trees fight it a bit. -
The shadows and foreground are a bit too dark. From the composition they're supplementary elements and so shouldn't grab the eye so much. If the shadows are the intended subject, it should be cropped to stop the eye leaving them for the two trees on the right. -
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The top is cropped a bit too much. The prow breaking the top of the frame means that the yellow rope is being cut (they eye can't go up and round the prow). It is the rope that adds impact to the shot. -
Happy halloween to you too! :-) -
If only you'd taken a couple of steps to the left to stop that background picture separating the copyist from the masterpiece. The copyist's hand should be the sharpest element in the picture (or the masterpiece depending where you want the emphasis) but it isn't. -
The picture needs to be a bit bigger (600-700 pixels). Nice idea to have the distant mountain framed to save a big expanse of sea but the foreground is too dominating and the leaves meet in the middle to chop the background in two. I'd crop off the right 45%, the bottom 25%, the left 20% and the top 5% but I think the best result would have been with a slightly changed viewpoint. -
The background is too distracting and the insect is coloured too much like the flower for such a high angle to work (even though you're probably trying to highlight the tail decorations). I'd have tried a lower angle.
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Somehow the line on the glass spoils the shot but I can't think of any useful suggestions for what you could have done to get round it.
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Great subjects. If that next seat is free I think I'll bask in the sun too. I think this is cropped either a little too close or not close enough. The firefighting tools are neither in nor out of the picture and don't really frame the subjects.
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I would compensate for the lighting colour but keep some warmth. There needs to be some more detail in the shadows in the bottom right - it's a black blob that stops me moving through the picture. I'd burn in the lights a little bit to make them less distracting. Also, I'd try to bring out the detailing in the door as a final resting point for the eye.
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I think you are trying to get too much out of one picture. The lighting on the American Falls is nice - there's one picture there. The rainbow is echoing perfectly the bridge - there's another picture there. The people are prominent and this is a very exciting experience (especially when you start to get wet) - there's yet another picture. It might have been possible to try to bring all three elements together in one picture but it would be quite a challenge. Maybe as the Maid headed upstream the rainbow would have been positioned in front of the falls rather than the bridge but the odds are it wouldn't have cooperated with you. For me it's the tower of the observation deck that divides the rainbow from the falls and there's nothing much you can do about that.
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A good expression but I don't like the cropping. With its heavy shadows, and lack of elbow and fingers, her left arm doesn't seem to be attached to the girl and is instead a distraction.
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Maybe this needs some tweaking to bring the best out of this shot. The intended subject seems to be the ridge sitting in the hole in the clouds but the cloud on the left is more interesting. I think you need to bring out more detail in the ridge and bring the clouds behind and to the right up to a similar level of punchiness as the cloud on the left. If you do suppress the left hand cloud, don't kill it because it's something interesting on the way to the ridge.
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2005 Chrysler 300c Hemi at the Bonneville Salt Flats
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