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as far as the contest goes i think this is the best photo sofar, well imho.

it provides a uinque perspective compared to most other entries.

what makes it a great photograph in terms of contest-conditions regarding the eye, it also shows what this particular eye sees and therefor gives a sense of place and activly implement seeing, what an eye does if working, into the photo.

very well done

one of the last photos taken with my 16-35.

so i am very very emotional about this shot :)

jk.

this is the "skyline" of vienna. i was going for a cheasy

sunset-nd-filter photo, when this happened.

your thoughts please - thanks.

to those who just rate-if you rate, please leave a comment too, thank you.

my first thought was:

hp lovecraft

i love the composition, the texture and how the roots make their way through what appears to be rock.

powerful, dynamic, yet very static.

i drop in at top left and get pulled towrds lower right which gives me a slightly negative, implemnting the photo, dirty, torn, feeling.

it would a be a great cover for a lot of different horrorstories.

lovecraft's "the lurking fear" comes to mind

great artwork.

love it

a wonderful portrait of a magnificent animal.

the colours of the backdrop match perfectly.

awesome

just found this

thank you for your comments, glad you like it.

yes it is a promotional shot for this band.
yes in this version the whitebalance is off, not so in the version to be seen on nat.geo.com.
the colours in this version have to be that way as it is the photo beeing printed in the album.
the band wanted the orange to fit the cover art as close as possible.

the glow however comes from the streetlamps.
this is a three second long exposure and i would have had to flash them from above.
which then gave too much light to the envoironment and does produce a look i did not like here..
therefore i put the flash in one of the guys hand and simply gave him a sign when he had to trigger it, almost rear curtain sync :)

i wasnt able to adjust the flash every time.
the exposures varied between 15 and 1 seconds and the flash stayed at the same, only got changed three times as we all got out and looked at the shots we already got.
i then adjusted the flash for the light to come and we started again.

of course this changed rapidly.

i was more cocnerened about surrunding light and did not care about a bit of overexposure on their hands every now and then.

a flag would have been a possibility, better yet, some sort of grid.
i set it higher, changed av alot also time. flash stayed the same.
i chose to set the flash a bit too strong as it had to fight the light spill, which can be annoying.
burn some detail in order to get definition how you want it where you need it.

this actually is one of those shots where a completely different lightning situation was expected and i changed fast, but not fast enough. this is one shot out of the process, the 3rd and last.

thanks for your time, hope i could tell you what was going on here. sorry that i am late to the game.

cheers, norbert

thank you dimitri!

flash is spottet so it should be darker.

i was just switching screens quite often latley and i found it to be quit dark on the screen i uploaded it from.

thanks for your time, cheers

norbert

that stance made me laugh.

very entertaining :)

 good fun.

therefore must  be a nice capture, doesn't it? ;)

cheers

edit: i especially enjoy the couples dangerous act of kissing. that requires fast reactions and a daredevil as a photog.

now i know why wedding-photography is not for me.

it is way to exciting, dangerous, and exhausting.

 :))

thank you very much, dave!

portrait of a friend who is an artist.

shot 1/2. it is some sort of dr.jekyll mr. hide photoproject with an

ironic approach. this one is for the art theory, the gallery visitors

and "culture consumers".

i will upload the second shot when i got the time to edit it.

however, it does look to be a bit too dark on this screen here. apologies.

your thoughts please

you noticed :)

thank you!

thank you for time folks.

glad you like it! 

cheers

hi there

i too started uploading to pn in 2003. and yeah i am a bit younger than you..i am old now too..since then i have published in several magazines like nat.geo. and others, ranging from art to news.

i do not claim to be perfect and my opinion is always valid, but it is honest. the only thing that counts, as far as i am concerned.

so when i am writing something to an image i am telling what i think, nothing more and nothing less.

i then tell people, in this case you, what i think and what i would have done differently and why.

i am not going to tell you, hey that is an awesome or shitty image, because that is not critique..thats just some random comment noone needs.

it is totally fine with me, if you do not agree with my input or it does not make sense to you, as you said.

the only thing where you got me wrong, and that may be my fault as i am not very good with words..i make pictures for a living..is the culture thing.

i was reffering to the way one reads an image, not the cultural background on portrait photography which totally is a diferent thing.

still, i am very curious why you would think that the path of a professional photographer is something you do not think is the right way to go, well at least for you, in your opinion, judging from your comment on my selfportait showing me in my dayjob..and yeah..long term journalistic work does not pay the bills right away when you dive into it..

have a good one

cheers

if you do not want to hear the opinion of others, or cannot stand it without lashing out at them, why ask for it in the first place.

jeez dude, at least explain yourself.

i am not so very sure but it seems to me as if the left eye, the right one on the photo, is out of focus.

to top it off there is this huge massive hand.

in combination with this crop it reminds me of some random floating head looking grumpy.

maybe one of those old renesaince paintings beheaded bad guys.

if you like a crop like this, i would definitely try to bring both eyes or the left one into focus.

you view images from left to right, wetsern culture, and you will drift off once you reach the left eye as it seems not to be in focus. bouncing back between the hand and the right eye gets you confused and you are not concerned by this person's look or whatsoever.

so i would like to see the other eye in focus, or if possible both.

if you like tight crops like this

get rid of the hand there.

and give him a bit more room to his shoulders.

for more information try to get your hands on some literature about "headroom" in films

really will help you
 understand when to put something in a way most ppl will get it. well, some will :)

to be graphcly more interesting i would have tried to bring the hill on the bottom left somewhat in line with the edge on the top right.

maybe zoom out a bit so it gets more obvious.

if not possible i would have zoomed in and concentrated on the structure and details of the cliff wall more.

maybe with the treeline on top.

right now it is either a graphcial composition, well at least not strong enough for my taste, nor does it show the detail of this amazing structure.

nice photo, i like it.

however i would love to see more contrast.

this would help the figure to stand a chance against the darkest parts of the photos, whicha re the corners and also it would give the body more definition.

you could also argue to reduce the vignetting in lightroom and such for the reason that you do not want that high contrast.

for my taste, id increase the contrast a little bit.

it is nice and sharp but it lacks a good composition.

if you want it to have a blue backdrop, sky, i would recomment to try a different framing.

also the black outline is disturbung me.

exposure and sharpness is fine but as a photograph i find it to be rather boring.

if you want ot to be like this, but it into the middle of the frame, and compose an rising arch with its back.

left to right diagnals ...when the element goes from top left to bottom right, it is negative.

if it goes from bottom left to top right it is positive
.

in western culture.

read something about art history and composition and test it on the cat.

make monumental cat photos :)

keep it up

cheers

the eyes are not in focus.

well..doesn't bother me too much.

still a great photo!

out of a series.

your thoughts please!

i took this shot in 2011, arena, vienna when red fang came to vienna

for the first time. the guy in the middle is thorsten who is a dear

friend of mine. back then they were fairly unknown and did not really

care if people would chat them up. they did not change that and are

down to earth cool guys.

as this is a group photo, i would like to hear you input on what i

could have, should have done. in your oppinion.

this was shot on a canon eos 1d mk3 on very high iso, with a 28 1.8 -

@ 1.8

so i decided to make it a black and white, colour noise of high iso

was annyoing me.

thank you, jana